About Us
A supporter (right) attending a talk I gave for the unemployed at Singapore Association For Mental Health on 12 Dec 2009
This site is specially set up in Jan 09 to cater to the emotional needs of the unemployed. It is NOT an employment agency and we do not offer jobs here. We are also a non profit society – Transitioning – Unemployment Support Services, registered with the Registrar of Societies (ROS).
It is hope that the unemployed can find support and solace here. It is estimated that as many as 50,000 Singaporeans are now unemployed. The figure is set to rise to 80,000 or more.
A friend, who is an engineer and jobless for six months, told me that he felt very alone and isolated during his period of unemployment. Likewise, been unemployed myself for 20 months before during the Sars period, I shared his sentiments.
The unemployed faced a daily challenge of going for interviews, facing rejection from employers and yet trying his best to continue living his life as normal as he could.
Over the past one year, we try to showcase the positive part of the whole unemployment experience. There will be many articles posted to help the jobless to resolve certain emotional hiccups of being unemployed.
We all know that finances are also a big part of the jobless problem so we will try to cater a portion of the site’s articles to provide for this need.
We also have an online counselling service specially catered to the needs of the unemployed. The retrenched worker can email us and we will provide you with an online counsellor. If need to, the service can be done via face to face or phone mode.
Participants in a free talk on entrepreneurship – photo
We a have regular support group meetings conducted by a counsellor. The 4-part series recently ended in May 09 and we will come up with another series soon. The unemployed can now come together to support one another in a formal setting. They also can network with one another for opportunities.
We give free talks to the unemployed through sponsored organisations. So far talks have been provided at Care Corner Counselling and Executive Counselling & Training Academy (ECTA).
We are please to announce that through your support, the site has a daily hit rate of 7,000 now and readership has gone very international. The top five countries are from Singapore, USA, Australia, Malaysia and China.
If you want to watch a television clip on us done by Channel News Asia in March 09, please follow this link – http://www.transitioning.org/2009/02/27/video-more-pmets-seeking-help-at-e2i/
We also cherished any donations from well wishers to offset the costs of booking rooms for the various activitites that we organised. Please email me at gilbert@transitioning.org.
Thanks and have a good time surfing the site. Please give us your comments to improve the site if any.
We are here for you. Feel free to share with us your transitioning experience. No man is an island.
Gilbert Goh
Founder/President
Transitioning.org
gilbert@transitioning.org
