# Keeping Singapore’s people operations moving since 1998. URL: https://skillsforce.com.sg/about Title: About Skillsforce | Singapore people-operations partner Description: Skillsforce Management Consultancy has supported Singapore employers since 1998 with recruitment, HR, payroll and manpower outsourcing. EA Licence 99C3289. Skillsforce Management Consultancy is a people-operations partner for Singapore employers. Since 1998 we have helped companies hire, run HR, process payroll and employ people compliantly, especially when the internal team is lean, overloaded, mid-transition, or not yet built. ## Who is Skillsforce and what do they do? Skillsforce Management Consultancy is a people-operations partner for Singapore employers, in business since 1998. We hire, run HR, process payroll and employ people compliantly on our clients' behalf, especially when the internal team is lean, overloaded, mid-transition, or not yet built. We run the work, we do not just advise on it. We are not a software platform or a high-volume staffing desk. We are a boutique firm in the plain sense of the word: small, experienced and relationship-led, taking on the awkward, important parts of the people function and running them properly, onsite or offsite, ongoing or interim. The consultant who takes your brief is the one who does the work. Most of our clients are lean SMEs, mid-market employers, and foreign companies setting up or operating in Singapore. We know local practice in detail: MOM, CPF, IRAS and fair-hiring expectations. We take the time to understand how your business runs before we design the support around it. What ties it together is continuity. Hiring, HR and payroll cannot pause while you recruit a new HR lead, wait out a resignation, or find your feet in a new market. We keep those functions running quietly in the background, so a gap in your team never becomes a gap in your operations. ## At a glance - Established: 1998 - EA Licence: 99C3289 - What we run: Recruitment, HR, payroll & manpower outsourcing - Support model: Onsite, offsite or interim - Best fit: 10–150 employees ## A people function that keeps running. - **We run it, not just advise it.** You do not get a deck and a retainer. You get the work done: shortlists sent, CPF filed, pay slips out, passes renewed. We own the task until it is finished. - **Local practice, in detail.** MOM, CPF, IRAS, IR8A and IR21 are our daily work, not a footnote. We keep you compliant without you having to learn the rules yourself. - **Built around how you operate.** We start with your team, your deadlines and your constraints, then shape the support to fit: onsite, offsite, ongoing, or short-term cover. Engagements are customisable rather than packaged, so you take the parts you need and change them as the business changes. - **No gap, by design.** Resignations, hiring spikes, audits and market entries rarely arrive at a convenient time. We plan for the handovers and deadlines so the work continues while your team changes around it. - **Small enough to take on something new.** Payroll, CPF and IRAS processing follow the same statutory rules in every industry, so that half of the job transfers to yours on day one. Recruitment is where sector knowledge counts, and we treat an unfamiliar one as work to do: a longer brief, a first shortlist to calibrate against, and a straight answer about what we already know and what we are learning. ## Credentials - Progressive Wage Mark: accreditation no. 24199900539E, valid 10 October 2025 to 09 October 2026, issued by Singapore Business Federation, in partnership with the Ministry of Manpower, NTUC and SNEF. - Tripartite Standard adopter: Age-Friendly Workplace Practices (TAFEP) - Tripartite Standard adopter: Employment of Term Contract Employees (TAFEP) - Tripartite Standard adopter: Flexi Work Arrangement (TAFEP) - MOM Employment Agency Licence: 99C3289 - UEN: 199900539E ## Frequently asked questions ### How long has Skillsforce been operating? Since 1998. Skillsforce Management Consultancy Pte Ltd (UEN 199900539E) has supported Singapore employers with recruitment, HR, payroll and manpower outsourcing for more than twenty-five years. ### Where is Skillsforce based? Singapore. Our main office is at 60 Paya Lebar Road, Paya Lebar Square, with a branch at 221 Henderson Road. We support employers across the island, onsite or offsite. ### What makes Skillsforce different from an HR software platform? We are not a platform or a high-volume staffing desk. We are a relationship-led team that takes on the awkward, important parts of the people function, MOM, CPF and IRAS, and runs them properly, so you are not left configuring software alone. ### What accreditations and licences does Skillsforce hold? Our public register lists the Progressive Wage Mark accreditation and three adopted TAFEP Tripartite Standards, next to our EA Licence 99C3289 and UEN 199900539E. Each identifier shows the register you can check it against, with dates, on this page. ### Do you work with industries outside your seven sectors? Yes. Those seven are where we are deepest, not the limit of where we work. Payroll, CPF and IRAS filings follow the same statutory rules in any industry. For recruitment in a sector new to us, we take a longer brief, treat the first shortlist as a calibration, and tell you at the outset what we already know about your market and what we are learning.