The Construction Registration of Tradesmen (CoreTrade) is a registration scheme administered by the Building and Construction Authority (BCA), for skilled and experienced construction personnel in the various key construction trades.
Who is eligible for the CoreTrade Registration System?
This CoreTrade scheme is available for both local Singaporean workers and foreign workers with relevant years of experience working in the construction industry in Singapore.
CoreTrade provides a platform to retain better and more experienced personnel by providing a clear career progression path and recognition.
According to the BCA, there are two types of construction personnel a worker may be categorized into:
- Construction Tradesmen – construction workers that are skilled in specific construction trades
- Construction Foreman – also known as a construction supervisor; in charge of coordinating and supervising tradesmen in a specific construction trade
What are the benefits of the CoreTrade Training Course?
Apart from equipping your workers with new knowledge and additional technical skills, your company can benefit by having them recognized by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) and Building and Construction Authority (BCA) and upgrading them into Higher-Skilled Workers.
By upgrading your construction personnel with a BCA-approved training course like CoreTrade, employers will pay a lower levy rate and an extended maximum period of employment. Instead of 14 years for a Basic-Skilled Worker, Higher-Skilled Workers actually have their period of employment extended to a maximum of 26 years!
Signing your employees up for a familiarisation course provides a lot of benefits to you and your company. You get to keep your company’s high-performing construction personnel with additional training and testing through this CoreTrade Scheme.
No need to worry about re-hiring new workers all the time when you can keep the core group of personnel essential to your business for a long time.
How To Apply For CoreTrade Construction Courses?
As a one-stop service provider, other than giving training and skills assessment to construction workers, we are so pleased to announce that we are also providing professional essential services such as the recruitment of manpower!
This means that from you can now hire foreign workers from over 10 countries to be construction sector work pass holders and be employed under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act in a fuss-free, fast and dedicated channel— through us!
Here are the various manpower sources:
(a) Traditional Source (TS)
(b) PRC
(c) Non-Traditional Sources (NTS)– India– Sri Lanka– Thailand– Bangladesh– Myanmar– Philippines
(d) North Asian sources – Hong Kong (HKSAR passport)– Macau– South Korea– Taiwan
(e) other source countries approved by Ministry Of Manpower (MOM)
– such as Vietnam and many more*!
You may write to us and we can help you with the registration and administrative matters with MOM.
All you have to do is approach us for pre-registration via the following schemes:
- CoreTrade Scheme
- Multi-Skilling Scheme
- Direct R1 Pathway
- Continuing Education and Training (CET)
- Skills Evaluation Certificate (Knowledge) (SEC(K))
*Subjected to approval by MOM.
Entry Requirements:
To check your eligibility for these courses, please check our website here at aesperonconstruction.sg to find out more.
Why choose us?
To start working as a construction worker in Singapore, it is a requirement to possess a skills evaluation certificate. We have a more than 95% Passing Rate for our certification courses. As we understand that weekdays are mainly the important workdays, many weekend training slots are available in ATTC. Free transportation will be provided as well! (Terms and conditions apply).
If you have any queries, do not hesitate to contact us!
Benefits of Attending BCA-Approved Construction Courses – Lowering Foreign Worker’s Levies
How To Lower Foreign Worker’s Levies Through Multi-Skill Courses
The benefits of Multi-Skill are the same as CoreTrade which was covered previously. Apart from equipping your workers with new knowledge and additional technical skills, your company can benefit by having your workers recognized by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) and Building and Construction Authority (BCA) and upgrading them into Higher-Skilled Workers.
By upgrading your construction workers, employers will pay a lower levy rate and extended maximum period of employment. Instead of 14 years for a Basic-Skilled Worker, Higher-Skilled Workers actually have their period of employment extended to a maximum of 26 years!
This means employers get to keep their company’s all-stars just by upgrading their workers. No need to worry about re-hiring new foreign workers when you can keep those who are essential to your business for a long time.
How To Reduce Levy From Multi-Skill?
The levy rate is basically a pricing mechanism to regulate the number of foreign workers in Singapore and varies depending on the sector involved. The levy rate that employers pay mainly depends on two factors:
- The worker’s qualifications.
- The number of Work Permit or S Pass holders hired.
Just based on looking at the Foreign Worker Levy Scheme, it’s super worth it to upgrade your workers to be multi-skilled! Now all you got to do is see whether your workers are eligible for it!
To find out the latest BCA-Approved Construction Courses, click here.
