About CSAVI
About CSAVI
A National Initiative for Skills Assessment and Validation
The Centralised Skills Assessment and Validation Initiative (CSAVI) is a national level initiative led by Singapore Institute of Technology, in collaboration with SkillsFuture Singapore, to advance skills-first practices across Singapore’s workforce ecosystem.
At its core, CSAVI positions skills assessment as a strategic vehicle to strengthen professionalisation, support career mobility, and align learning with real work demands. Through authentic, skills-based assessments, the initiative ensures that competencies are demonstrated through performance in realistic scenarios, rather than inferred from credentials.
The initiative adopts a data-driven, technology-enabled approach that combines psychometric rigour with AI-supported assessment methods to deliver reliable and scalable evaluation. These assessments generate actionable insights, enabling individuals to identify skills gaps and progression pathways, while supporting employers in skills-based hiring, deployment, and workforce development.
Delivering Value Across the Ecosystem
CSAVI provides trusted, standards-aligned assessments that generate actionable insights and enable skills-first practices across the workforce. It helps individuals understand their capabilities, identify skills gaps, and plan targeted upskilling and career progression. Employers gain a reliable view of workforce capabilities to support hiring, deployment, and workforce planning. Training providers can use assessment data to improve curriculum design and ensure alignment with industry needs. Industry and professional bodies can establish standards, benchmark competencies, and strengthen pathways for certification and progression.
CSAVI Advisory Panel
The CSAVI Advisory Panel brings together distinguished leaders from Singapore’s industry landscape, each recognised for their expertise in skills recognition and workforce development. This panel plays a pivotal role in shaping the direction of skills assessment and validation in Singapore. The members provide strategic guidance for this important initiative and foster partnerships across the skills ecosystem.
Chair
Mr Tan Kok Yam
Members
Mr Andreas Sungaimin
Ms Cindy Lee
Mr Derek Tan
Ms Karina Kuok
Mr Lim Shung Yar
Mr Musa Fazal
Ms Rachel Loh
Mr Sam Liew
Mr Tan Toi Chia
Mr Zhang Weijie
Ex Officio
Dr May Lim
Ms Loh Gek Khim
Projects
AI Skills Compass
About the Assessment: Artificial Intelligence is becoming part of everyday work across many industries. This assessment helps individuals understand their current level of AI readiness and identify practical next steps for learning and skills development.
Under the National AI Impact Programme, Ministry of Digital Development and Information (MDDI) and Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) introduced three AI user archetypes: AI Aware, AI Literate, and AI Fluent to describe progressive levels of AI understanding in the workforce.
Drawing on this national reference and synthesising capability expectations from the relevant SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) Skills Framework for Infocomm Technology, this AI Skills Compass translates these archetypes into four practical capability dimensions to help learners better understand their current strengths and learning opportunities.
Stay tuned for the launch of the AI Skills Compass by Q2 2026
Future-Fit Skills
We partner with Workera to offer a new skills assessment – built to quickly establish skills proficiency baselines across three in-demand catergories: AI Foundations, Power Skills for All and Data Literacy.
AI Foundations
Validate your foundational understanding of artificial intelligence and its practical applications across digital workplaces.
Data Literacy
Validate your ability to manage data and apply it across the workplace. Covering data concepts, ethical handling and basic analytical reasoning, you will learn how to function confidently in data-rich environments.
Power Skills for All
Evaluate your foundational power skills - communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and adaptability - essential for success in dynamic and team-based work environments. Identify strengths and areas for development to support lifelong employability.
If you would like to take any of the assessments, email us at skills.assessment@singaporetech.edu.sg
Projects
Accompany, Befriend and Care Skills Assessment
Conducted with Loving Heart Multi Service Centre, this assessment evaluates readiness for community care roles such as befriending and accompanying older adults. It assesses key competencies including care knowledge, communication, mobility, and safety through authentic, task-based methods such as scenarios, practical observations, and role play.
AI-Based Mood-Sensing and Customer Service Assessment
CSAVI is working with Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) to develop an AI-based mood-sensing assessment aimed at enhancing service excellence. This solution will help the organisation identify candidates with the right service persona and pinpoint retraining needs for existing team members to maintain high service standards.
Candidates and selected staff will complete short, simulated service scenarios, allowing the system to evaluate how they recognise guest emotions, manage their own responses, and maintain positive engagement. The assessment identifies the right service persona by analysing empathy, composure, conversational warmth, responsiveness, and steadiness under mild pressure, supporting both hiring and targeted development.
Community Carer Assessment
This assessment evaluates the readiness of community carers working with older adults with cognitive impairment. It assesses key competencies, including the ability to suggest engagement activities grounded in person-centred care principles, care knowledge, communication and empathy, and the identification of fall hazards within a virtual HDB flat environment.
Developed in partnership with Loving Heart Multi Service Centre, the assessment is used to evaluate the skills of existing community carers and to support the recruitment of new volunteers.
Interested in developing bespoke assessments for your organisation?
Reach out to discuss your requirements with us.
Events
Events
Professional Colloquium: “Driving Workforce Readiness Through Skills Validation”
The Professional Colloquium brought together leaders from education, industry, and policy to examine the shift towards a skills first workforce in response to digitalisation and automation. The event highlighted the need to move beyond qualification-based models towards approaches that prioritise validated competencies and real work capabilities. It explored how skills assessment and validation can support more effective hiring, workforce mobility, and targeted upskilling, alongside the role of AI, technology, and digital credentials in enabling scalable and credible recognition of skills. Through roundtable discussions and shared insights, participants identified opportunities, challenges, and practical directions for embedding skills validation into workforce practices, while fostering collaboration to advance a more inclusive, agile, and skills driven workforce ecosystem.
From Skills to Standards: Sustainability Competencies in Hospitality and Tourism
Together with stakeholders from hospitality, tourism, and education, this session explored the development and recognition of sustainability competencies within the sector. Building on the launch of the Centralised Skills Assessment and Validation Initiative (CSAVI), participants examined how standards-aligned assessments can support capability building, certification, and workforce development in response to evolving sustainability demands.
The discussion covered emerging sustainability talent needs, current challenges in training and recognition, and opportunities to strengthen collaboration between industry and education. Participants also explored how assessment and validation can support clearer competency standards, targeted upskilling, and more effective pathways for developing a future-ready and sustainability-focused workforce.
Media and Reports
News
15 April 2026
The Straits Times, Forum
Skills push already shifting towards credible validation
09 April 2026
The Straits Times, Forum
Adult learning should be serious, but not overly daunting
26 March 2026
The Straits Times, Op-Ed
A skills-first Singapore needs a rethink of assessments, not just more certificates Publication
17 September 2025
Lianhe Zaobao
新工大与精深局合作 加强技能评估与认证
16 September 2025
Berita Harian
SkillsFuture, SIT rintis inisiatif bantu pekerja, majikan nilai kemahiran
Speeches
01 April 2026
Speech by Minister for Education Mr Desmond Lee at the Straits Times (ST) Education Forum
AI in Higher Education – Hype or Hope
03 March 2026
Speech by Minister of State for Education Jasmin Lau
MOE Committee of Supply Debate 2026 Response
16 September 2025
Speech by Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Lawrence Wong
SIT Punggol campus official opening ceremony
