Around 200 inmates scoured for employment prospects at an inaugural job fair held at the Changi Prison Complex on Thursday, with 17 companies taking part.

The fair was organised by community workers to help convicts due to be released in the next three months find jobs.

"Providing ex-offenders with gainful employment is a key contributing factor for them to turn away from a life of drugs and crime," Kong Mun Kwong, chairman of the Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises, told participating companies at the jobs fair.

Keppel Offshore and Marine, one of the participating companies, said former convicts employed by the firm have performed well.

"In our own small ways we have taken ex-offenders into our fold, and they have done well in our company," a company spokesman said.

"We saw it as a great opportunity to further support a social cause."

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