CAREER Exhibition and Seminar - How It All Began

The past three decades saw numerous career guidance projects accomplished by SPC. Its valuable contributions in this particular area of community service including giving advice, occupation information, sharing experiences and serving as consultants/experts in addition to organizing career exhibitions and seminars.
The first Career Exhibition was held at the Victoria Memorial Hall in January, 1972. In 1973, a similar exhibition was held at SPC's Outram Park premises and subsequently at all community centers through an arrangement with the People's Association.
In 1975, at the first Singapore Professional Centre Convention entitled `Towards a Better Singapore' the idea of the Singapore Professional Centre promoting manpower training for the nation was raised. Within a year, the first career exhibition and seminar was held and paved the way for the CAREER Series - SPC's most outstanding career guidance event and the longest running series of career exhibition-cum-seminars held annually since 1988. Today, it is the biggest Career Exhibition in the region attracting over 300,000 visitors and 250 exhibitors both foreign and local and about 130 seminars of career guidance.