JobKred today announced that ST Engineering, one of Asia’s largest engineering groups with 27,000 employees worldwide, has selected JobKred as its long-term partner to strengthen workforce readiness, accelerate skills development, and build greater talent agility across its business units.
As global engineering and technology sectors undergo rapid transformation, driven by digitalisation, automation, sustainability mandates, and advanced defence technologies, ST Engineering faces a familiar but critical industry challenge: how to build and sustain a workforce ready for emerging demands while preserving deep technical expertise built over decades.
Across complex and high-stakes environments, ST Engineering has identified several priorities:
• Real-time visibility of workforce capabilities across diverse job families
• Faster identification of skill gaps in emerging domains such as AI, autonomous systems, and digital operations
• More agile talent deployment and internal mobility, especially for critical and cross-functional roles
• Clearer career pathways and learning plans to support retention and long-term development
• A scalable, unified skills infrastructure that can be implemented across many business units.
This transformation is anchored by ST Engineering’s commitment to adopting a skills-first talent strategy, a move away from traditional role-based planning toward a system where decisions on hiring, development, mobility, and succession are grounded in verified skills data. The partnership begins with strengthening the Engineering Competency Management Framework for ST Engineering’s technical workforce, establishing the foundation for broader organisation-wide skills visibility and development. As the organisation scales new capabilities, having a trusted skills foundation becomes essential to maintain agility and ensure that talent development keeps pace with technological change.
After evaluating multiple approaches, ST Engineering selected JobKred’s AI-powered Skills Intelligence Platform to support this transformation. JobKred provides a centralised, validated skills architecture that gives leaders and HR teams the ability to:
• Map technical and functional skills across roles and business units
• Automate the assessment of verified and evidence-backed skills data
• Gain real-time skills visibility and readiness insights
• Identify workforce gaps early and align development to future needs
• Build structured career pathways and personalised learning plans
• Support internal mobility, succession planning, and talent pipeline development
• Ensure workforce skills stay aligned with evolving operational and technological demands
“We’re proud to be chosen as ST Engineering’s skills partner,” said Gary Gan, co-founder and CEO of JobKred. “ST Engineering is a global leader in engineering innovation, and they recognise that workforce readiness is now a strategic capability. They explored various global solutions, but ultimately chose a platform with the flexibility to meet their evolving needs and the proven capabilities to support implementation on the ground. It shows that organisations don’t just need technology; they need a partner who can deliver real workforce outcomes.”
“As we scale our engineering capabilities to meet evolving technological demands, having clear visibility of workforce skills and gaps becomes critical. Our partnership with JobKred allows us to implement a structured, data-driven approach to skills development across our engineering workforce, enabling greater agility, stronger internal mobility, and long-term capability building across the group.”
— Mr Hor, Group Chief Engineering Officer, ST Engineering
This collaboration reflects a broader industry shift toward skills-first talent strategies, especially in sectors where safety, precision, and technical depth are paramount. With JobKred’s platform, ST Engineering will gain a unified system to continuously assess, develop, and deploy talent—strengthening its long-term competitiveness and supporting its mission to deliver world-class engineering solutions.
About JobKred
JobKred is a leading Skills Intelligence and Workforce Readiness platform used by government agencies and more than 2,000 organisations across Asia. Through validated skills data, AI-powered career pathways, and scalable workforce mapping tools, JobKred enables enterprises to build trusted, future-ready teams and execute workforce transformation with confidence.
