SGP-002

Career Kaki AI-Enabled Career Coaching Assistant (Singapore)

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Singapore East Asia & Pacific High income Operational Deployment (Limited Rollout) Confirmed

Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech); Workforce Singapore (WSG); Ministry of Manpower (MOM); SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG)

At a Glance

What it does Perception and extraction from unstructured inputs — User communication and interaction
Who runs it Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech); Workforce Singapore (WSG); Ministry of Manpower (MOM); SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG)
Programme Career Kaki
Confidence Confirmed
Deployment Status Operational Deployment (Limited Rollout)
Key Risks Model-related risks
Key Outcomes Over 9,000 conversations facilitated since July 2024 launch.
Source Quality 5 sources — Government website / press release, News article / media, Report (government / official)

Career Kaki is a free AI-enabled career coaching assistant developed by the Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech) in partnership with the Ministry of Manpower (MOM), SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG), and Workforce Singapore (WSG) as part of Singapore's Career Health SG initiative. Launched in July 2024, the platform provides personalised career guidance, job recommendations, and training course suggestions through a conversational AI interface, targeting working professionals, fresh graduates, and mid-career switchers in the Singapore labour market.

The available source base supports Career Kaki as a conversational AI assistant that integrates multiple government-verified data sources to provide contextualised career guidance. Public documentation confirms links to Singpass, MyCareersFuture, MySkillsFuture, and the Careers and Skills Passport (CSP), allowing the service to draw on verified employment history, qualifications, certifications, and available job or training options. However, the publicly retained sources do not fully document a deployment-specific large-language-model or retrieval-augmented-generation architecture, so the case is described conservatively as an AI-enabled conversational guidance tool rather than a fully specified foundation-model deployment.

Career Kaki integrates with several key government digital infrastructure components. Through Singpass, Singapore's national digital identity system, the platform authenticates users and retrieves their verified personal data. The system connects to MyCareersFuture, Singapore's national employment portal, to provide personalised job listings including both part-time and full-time opportunities. It links to MySkillsFuture for training course recommendations and career resources. A critical integration is with the Careers and Skills Passport (CSP), a personal digital repository launched under Career Health SG that consolidates an individual's employment history, skills, academic qualifications, and professional certifications from government-verified sources including SkillsFuture Singapore, the Ministry of Education, and sector agencies. With the user's consent, Career Kaki can use CSP data to deliver more contextualised career advice, identify skills gaps, and recommend relevant training pathways.

The platform has also been integrated with private-sector job portals including JobStreet and FastJobs, extending its reach beyond government-curated listings. Career Compass, another government career resource, provides supplementary content that Career Kaki can surface during conversations. The most common conversation topics reported by users include career guidance and options exploration, salary expectations and comparisons across various jobs, and finding and applying for positions.

Since its launch in July 2024, Career Kaki has facilitated over 9,000 conversations, indicating early-stage adoption. The platform is accessible to all users at no cost, removing financial barriers to career coaching services that would otherwise require paid professional consultation.

From a data governance perspective, Career Kaki operates under Singapore's Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (PDPA). The platform's privacy policy, dated April 2025, specifies that personal data collected includes identity information, contact details, professional data, educational background, and conversation history. Users must provide consent for data to be shared with career coaches, and the platform states that personal CSP data will not be shared with third parties without expressed consent. The service commits to deleting data within six months if the service is discontinued. The platform also advises users to verify AI-generated career guidance before acting on it.

The system includes human oversight mechanisms. Career counsellors and moderators can review AI outputs and intervene in cases of errors or inappropriate recommendations. The AI functions in an advisory role, providing recommendations and guidance that do not determine eligibility for benefits or entitlements.

Singapore's broader AI governance ecosystem applies to Career Kaki. The Model AI Governance Framework and AI Verify provide the governance context referenced in public materials. The platform is described as operating on government digital infrastructure, but the exact model stack, provider, and architecture are not fully disclosed in the retained sources.

Classifications follow the DCI AI Hub Taxonomy. Hover over field labels for definitions.

Social Protection Functions

Implementation/delivery chain
Profiling, job matching and support services primaryCase management
SP Pillar (Primary) The social protection branch: social assistance, social insurance, or labour market programmes. Labour market programmes
Programme Name Career Kaki
Programme Type The type of social protection programme, classified under social assistance, social insurance, or labour market programmes. View in glossary Job search assistance and placement services
System Level Where in the social protection system the AI is applied: policy level, programme design, or implementation/delivery chain. View in glossary Implementation/delivery chain
Programme Description Free AI-enabled career coaching assistant providing personalised career guidance, job recommendations, and training course suggestions through conversational AI. Developed by GovTech in partnership with MOM, SSG, and WSG under the Career Health SG initiative. Integrated with Singpass, MyCareersFuture, MySkillsFuture, and the Careers and Skills Passport.
Implementation Type How the AI output is produced: Classical ML, Deep learning, Foundation model, or Hybrid. Affects validation, compute requirements, and governance profile. View in glossary Classical ML
Lifecycle Stage Current stage in the AI lifecycle, from problem identification through to monitoring, maintenance and decommissioning. View in glossary Integration and Deployment
Model Provenance Origin of the AI model: developed in-house, adapted from open-source, commercial/proprietary, or accessed via third-party API. View in glossary Not documented
Compute Environment Where the AI system runs: on-premise, government cloud, commercial cloud, or edge/device. View in glossary National/government cloud
Sovereignty Quadrant Classification of data and compute sovereignty: I (Sovereign), II (Federated/Hybrid), III (Cloud with safeguards), or IV (Shared Innovation Zone). View in glossary I — Sovereign AI Zone
Data Residency Where the data used by the AI system is stored: domestic, regional, or international. View in glossary Not documented
Cross-Border Transfer Whether data crosses national borders, and if so, whether documented safeguards are in place. View in glossary Not documented
Is Agentic Whether the system autonomously plans and executes multi-step workflows, selecting tools and chaining actions with limited human intervention. View in glossary Partial
Agentic Pipeline Description of the chained workflow steps in the agentic pipeline. Conversational AI assistant retrieves relevant profile and opportunity data from integrated government services and presents personalised career guidance, job suggestions, and training recommendations within a supervised service flow.
Agentic Autonomy Degree of autonomy: fully autonomous, semi-autonomous (human checkpoints), or supervised (human approval at each step). Supervised
Override Points Where in the pipeline human review or override is triggered. Career counsellors and moderators review AI outputs and can intervene in cases of errors or inappropriate recommendations. Users are advised to independently verify AI-generated guidance.
Decision Criticality The rights impact of the decision the AI supports. High criticality requires HITL oversight; moderate requires HOTL; low may operate HOOTL. View in glossary Moderate
Human Oversight Type Level of human involvement: Human-in-the-Loop (active review), Human-on-the-Loop (monitoring), or Human-out-of-the-Loop (periodic audit). View in glossary HITL
Development Process Whether the AI system was developed fully in-house, through a mix of in-house and third-party, or fully by an external provider. View in glossary Fully in-house
Highest Risk Category The most significant structural risk source identified: data, model, operational, governance, or market/sovereignty risks. View in glossary Model-related risks
Risk Assessment Status Whether a formal risk assessment, informal assessment, or independent audit has been conducted for this system. Formal assessment

Risk Dimensions

Data-related risks
Market, sovereignty and industry structure risks
Operational and system integration risks

Impact Dimensions

Systemic and societal
  • DPIA/AIA conducted
  • Data minimisation controls
  • Human oversight protocol
CategorySensitivityCross-System LinkageAvailabilityKey Constraints
Administrative data from other sectorsNon-personalLinks data across multiple systemsCurrently available and usedJob listings from MyCareersFuture and private-sector portals (JobStreet, FastJobs); training course data from MySkillsFuture; career resources from Career Compass; skills taxonomies and labour market data
Beneficiary registries and MISPersonalLinks data across multiple systemsCurrently available and usedUser profiles retrieved via Singpass and Careers and Skills Passport, including employment history, skills inventory, academic qualifications, and professional certifications from government-verified sources (MOM, SSG, MOE)
Unstructured and text-based contentPersonalSingle source (no linkage)Currently available and usedUser-uploaded resumes and conversation history with the AI assistant; anonymised interaction logs for analytics and service improvement

Career Kaki (2025) Privacy Statement. Singapore: Government Technology Agency. Available at: https://careerkaki.gov.sg/privacy (Accessed: 24 March 2026).

View source Government website / press release

GovInsider (n.d.) 'An AI-powered consultant to boost your career', GovInsider. Available at: https://govinsider.asia/intl-en/article/an-ai-powered-consultant-to-boost-your-career (Accessed: 24 March 2026).

View source News article / media

GovTech Singapore (2024) Career Kaki. Singapore: Government Technology Agency. Available at: https://www.tech.gov.sg/products-and-services/for-citizens/employment/career-kaki/ (Accessed: 24 March 2026).

View source Government website / press release

GovTech Singapore (2024) 'Considering a mid-career switch in Singapore? Meet Career Kaki', TechNews. Singapore: Government Technology Agency. Available at: https://www.tech.gov.sg/technews/considering-a-mid-career-switch-in-singapore-meet-career-kaki/ (Accessed: 24 March 2026).

View source Government website / press release

Smart Nation and Digital Government Office (2022) Model AI Governance Framework for the Public Sector. Singapore: Government of Singapore. Available at: https://www.smartnation.gov.sg/why-Smart-Nation/AI/Model-AI-Gov-Framework (Accessed: 24 March 2026).

View source Report (government / official)
Deployment Status How far the system has progressed into real-world operational use, from concept/exploration through to scaled and institutionalised. View in glossary Operational Deployment (Limited Rollout)
Year Initiated The year the AI system was first initiated or development began. 2024
Scale / Coverage The scale and geographic or population coverage of the deployment. Over 9,000 conversations facilitated since July 2024 launch. Available free to all Singapore residents including working professionals, fresh graduates, and mid-career switchers.
Funding Source The source(s) of funding for the AI system development and deployment. Government of Singapore (GovTech / Ministry of Manpower / Career Health SG initiative budget)
Technical Partners External technology vendors, academic partners, or development partners involved. Built by GovTech using national AI platform capabilities (AI Bots Platform with RAG integration). Integrated with Singpass (national digital identity), MyCareersFuture (WSG employment portal), MySkillsFuture (SSG training portal), Careers and Skills Passport (CSP), and private-sector job portals (JobStreet, FastJobs).
Outcomes / Results Over 9,000 conversations facilitated since July 2024 launch. Most common topics: career guidance and options, salary expectations and comparisons, finding and applying for jobs. Removes financial barriers to career coaching by providing free AI-enabled guidance. Integrated with Career Health SG initiative supporting broader workforce development goals.
Challenges Source URLs were restructured during validation, and documentation remains limited on the specific LLM model identity, training data, and detailed technical architecture. Early adoption with 9,000 conversations suggests limited rollout phase rather than full-scale deployment.

How to Cite

DCI AI Hub (2026). 'Career Kaki AI-Enabled Career Coaching Assistant (Singapore)', AI Hub AI Tracker, case SGP-002. Digital Convergence Initiative. Available at: https://socialprotectionai.org/use-case/SGP-002 [Accessed: 1 April 2026].

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