Variety Is Key To Handle Challenges Dealing with Semiconductor Business
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 11 March 2021 – The Inaugural Semiconductor Girls’s Discussion board in Singapore was launched at Conrad Centennial Singapore as we speak in a hybrid format. Organised by the Singapore Semiconductor Business Affiliation (SSIA) and supported by e2i, Workforce Singapore and World Semiconductor Alliance, the occasion aimed to draw extra feminine abilities to hitch the semiconductor sector, and encourage the present feminine workforce to remain and thrive within the business. The occasion attracted over 700 contributors (each on-site and on-line) from greater than 100 corporates and organisations worldwide. Ms Solar Xueling, Minister of State for Schooling and Social and Household Growth, attended the occasion because the Visitor of Honour.
Ms Solar Xueling, Minister of State for Schooling and Social and Household Growth, graced the primary Singapore Semiconductor Girls’s Discussion board.
The semiconductor business in Singapore stays a male-dominant business though feminine management contributes tremendously in company sectors worldwide, as recognised by world research. A survey ‘GSA: Girls within the Semiconductor Business’ performed by GSA and Accenture in 2019 and 2020 confirmed a big under-representation of females with the best in management and technical roles within the business.
Supporting feminine workers throughout pandemic
The current progress and consequent shortages in semiconductors have highlighted how important the semiconductor business is in offering the constructing blocks of the merchandise and providers that impression the best way we stay, how we work, and the best way we get pleasure from our leisure.
SSIA Chairman Andrew Chong stated range is vital to deal with these pressing wants in a accountable method. “The business strongly wants extra abilities to ship the vibrancy, agility and sustainability crucial for fulfillment on this subject in the course of the pandemic. The important investments in constructing a extra versatile and empathetic office will enormously assist retain and entice workers, and nurture a tradition wherein ladies have equal alternative to attain their potential in a significant profession,” stated Andrew in his welcome speech. He stated firms have elevated their efforts in creating diversified and inclusive working environments. A few of them have additionally established Girls Community Chapters inside their organizations to encourage and help their workers.
Insights from ladies leaders within the business
5 respected feminine leaders who’ve excelled within the semiconductor business shared their inspirational profession journeys on the Semiconductor Girls’s Discussion board, together with Jennifer Zhao, Govt Vice President and Normal Supervisor, Superior Optical Sensors Division, ams AG, Siah Soh Yun, Know-how Growth Vice President, GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF), Sim Cher Whee, Vice President, World Expertise Acquisition and Expertise Mobility, Micron, Jaya Jagadish, Company Vice President- Silicon Design Engineering & Nation Head — India, AMD, and Olivia Koentjoro, Director of Mental Property Analytics Heart of Excellence, World Regulation Division, Utilized Supplies.
“In 2013, GF established the GLOBALWOMEN (GW) community with a mission to create a sustainable framework for the skilled improvement of ladies at GF. GW is a very important a part of our inclusive tradition and has now advanced into an alliance that contains ladies and men who actively work as allies for ladies workers. There is a powerful want for corporates to put ‘stability for higher’ as a precedence by institutionalizing help teams on mentoring {and professional} improvement of ladies engineers,” stated Soh Yun from GF.
“Utilized Supplies sponsors Girls Skilled Growth Community (WPDN), which fosters range and inclusion and goals to construct a progressive, truthful and equitable working setting inside Utilized. WPDN is lively in selling engagement and retention of feminine abilities and appearing as a improvement platform for future Utilized feminine leaders,” stated Olivia from Utilized Supplies.
“Micron is utilising new instruments to advertise range in expertise acquisition and reinforce Micron’s inclusive tradition, equivalent to modifying job descriptions to weed out unconscious gender bias, utilizing AI to cut back bias in candidate purposes, and making certain interviewing groups are additionally various. The submit COVID period of management and innovation requires a powerful sense of goal and empathy, and we’re defining our new regular,” stated Cher Whee from Micron.
Within the coming months, SSIA will roll out extra occasions and actions to create a vibrant setting for its workforce. For extra particulars of coming expertise improvement initiatives for the electronics and semiconductor business, please go to https://ssia.org.sg/jobs
About Singapore Semiconductor Business Affiliation (SSIA)
Singapore Semiconductor Business Affiliation (SSIA) has greater than 180 members as we speak together with firms and organisations all through all components of the complicated and complete worth chain – IC design firms, Producers, Fabless firms, Tools suppliers, Photovoltaic firms, EDA and materials suppliers, Coaching and repair suppliers, IP firms, analysis institutes and Academia, in addition to particular person members. Since 2013, SME membership has grown exponentially and SMEs now account for near half of SSIA’s membership. For extra details about SSIA, please go to: https://ssia.org.sg/
