These are the 3 hottest jobs in Singapore right now

Clerical staff still in demand.

According to the latest Hay Group report, the top employee groups in high demand are Junior Professionals (35 percent), Middle Management (34 percent) and Clerical/Operations (25 percent).

Drilling down into job functions, the key focuses of recruitment is on Engineering (13 percent) and Sales (11 percent). Following suit are jobs in Administration/Support Service, Customer Service, Finance & Accounting and Marketing — all at 8 percent.

Mr Victor Chan, Regional General Manager (Singapore and ASEAN) for Productized Services, Hay Group, said, “Our report found that those who had specialist knowledge or industry-specific technical skills such as engineering will continue to command a higher market differential as compared to more common jobs such as customer service and marketing.”