Skills-First Practices for Individuals

Explore practices to identify your skills, navigate your career, learn purposefully and make your capabilities visible.

Make Skills Work for You


Find out how to recognise what you can do, build the skills you need next, and open up new opportunities in your career.

Scroll down further for more details on Skills-First practices and even more tips.


Hear From Individuals that Have Adopted Skills-First Practices

Arriola Philip Erasmus
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Arriola Philip Erasmus
Moving Sideways on Transferable Skills


He has worked continuously across three very different sectors. LASTIC assessed him on what he could do, not on prior sector experience.

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Jessline Yap
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Jessline Yap
Turning a Career Setback into a New Direction

Her work progressed from delivering training to advising organisations on workforce strategy. She is now Consultant and Founder of The Learning Motion.

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Barry Chou
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Barry Chou
Finding a new direction after two decades in corporate work


He is now a life and career design coach, emcee and moderator, and founder of Be.Inspired.

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Muhammad Khalid
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Muhammad Khalid
From Sales to Healthcare


In January 2026 he joined the National Cancer Centre Singapore as a Senior Patient Service Associate, with no previous healthcare experience.

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Woo Lai Yee
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Woo Lai Yee
From caregiver to eldercare professional


She joined an active ageing centre and became Centre Manager within one year and seven months.

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