Ms Caryn Lim
Board of Directors, Employment and Employability Institute
Assistant Secretary-General, NTUC, and Chief / Job Security Directorate
Ms Caryn Lim is the Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Job Security at the
National Trades Union Congress (NTUC). She oversees NTUC’s Job Security
ecosystem, driving efforts to improve workers’ wages and work prospects by helping workers access end-to-end support from skills training and career coaching to job matching while supporting companies in their workforce and business transformation. She works closely with tripartite partners and industry stakeholders to strengthen workforce resilience and employment outcomes for workers.
Prior to this, Ms Caryn Lim was the Chief Executive Officer of NTUC’s e2i (Employment and Employability Institute), where she led the organisation’s efforts to deepen partnerships with employers and industry sectors to support our workforce. She worked closely with Government partners to develop and administer the Company Training Committee Grant, supporting workforce and business transformation. Under her leadership, e2i expanded its role in the national
personalised placement landscape by managing a network of 28 touchpoints in Singapore to provides workers with assistance in making their next career move. e2i also introduced the AI Career Coach which provides workers easy access to career services online.
Ms Caryn Lim joined the Labour Movement in 2019 as Director of NTUC’s Economic
and Social Policy Units. In this role, she led efforts to formulate and advocate policy
positions on labour and employment issues. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she
worked with the Ministry of Manpower to develop and administer the Self Employed Person Income Relief Scheme (SIRS), which helped about 200,000 self-employed persons.
Prior to joining NTUC, Ms Caryn Lim held various appointments at the Ministry of
Manpower. Her portfolio included developing policies for Continuing Education and Training (CET) initiatives, as well as the protection of foreign workers and foreign domestic workers in Singapore. She also helped develop and implement national initiatives such as the Skills Programme for Upgrading and Resilience (SPUR), and contributed to the policy formulation for Singapore’s CET campuses, including the Devan Nair Institute for Employment and Employability.
