Transforming the Food Service Workforce for Tomorrow: A Guide to Sustainable Career Planning

Build Career Pathways That Strengthen Your Food Service Workforce

A one-day masterclass that helps Food Services employers design career pathways and Career Development Plans (CDPs) using frameworks aligned with the Food Services Jobs Transformation Map (JTM).

Career planning is a retention strategy.

The Food Services industry is evolving. Employers who invest in structured career pathways are positioned to better attract and retain talent in this rapidly changing workforce.

CAREER PATHWAYS

Create clear progression opportunities that give employees a reason to stay.

EMPLOYEE GROWTH

Support continuous learning and prepare employees for higher-value roles.

SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

Build future-ready capabilities that meet evolving industry needs.

BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY

Strengthen retention, productivity, and long-term workforce resilience.
— WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH
A pathway and a plan, built for your team.
This isn’t a theory session. You leave with two concrete outputs, built for a role in your own organisation, ready to adapt and roll out.

MASTERCLASS OUTPUT
Learning Takeways

01 Understand key workforce trends, JTM for the Food Services Sectors and its implications for employers.
02 Identify emerging job roles and skills in food services
03 Recognise the link between career planning and attraction, development, and retention
04 Learn how to design simple structured career pathways
05 Gain awareness of tools that support career planning and skills identification
06 Develop a basic Career Development Plan (CDP)

Masterclass Topics

The masterclass is designed from an industry context to a hands on where you leave with your own pathway plan for your organisation.

Industry & Job Transformation Map (JTM)
  • What the Job Transformation Map is, and the Food Services JTM in detail
  • Key drivers of change and emerging roles, skills shifts, and JRR opportunities
  • What the JTM means for employers in practice
Career Planning & Business Impact
  • Career planning as a practical lever for attraction, development, and retention
  • Business case for SMEs
Structured Career Pathways
  • Designing Practical Career Pathways
  • Mapping roles and progression with examples
Tools & Enablers
  • Overview of psychometric tools for employee self-assessment
  • Digital tools for skills identification
  • Introduction to the Career Development Plan
Hands-on Career Pathway & Development Planning Lab
  • Apply a Career Pathway Mapping Framework (simplified for SMEs) to map progression for a selected role
  • Identify key skills, competencies, and transition points across roles
  • Develop a 3-step Career Development Plan (CDP) for an employee or role
  • Peer discussion and facilitator feedback to refine outputs
Jessie Wong
WSQ Trainer and Consultant
 

Jessie has over 20 years of professional experience across the hospitality, healthcare and higher education sectors, with organisations including Singapore Airlines, Johnson & Johnson, the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore Management University (SMU) and Yale-NUS College.

 

A certified WSQ trainer and adult learning facilitator, she designs and delivers practical programmes in service excellence, workplace skills and workforce development. Drawing on her experience in executive education, organisational development and stakeholder engagement, Jessie helps organisations translate workforce initiatives into practical strategies that support talent attraction, capability development and employee retention.

 

Her facilitative approach combines industry insights, real-world examples and interactive learning, enabling participants to develop practical solutions that can be applied within their own organisations.

What to expect on the day

DATE
20 November 2026, 9am - 6pm
Full-day, in-person masterclass

VENUE
莎瑞管理学院
120 Oxley Rise, Singapore 238709

WHO IT'S FOR
Food Services Employers, Owners, HR, OJT trainers/supervisors

REGISTRATION
Price per pax (before gst)

Singaporean / Singapore PR — $200
Non-Singaporean  — $250
Minimum 2 pax per company are recommended.

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