Singapore Education Minister, Heng Swee Keat says a good qualification alone does not guarantee a good career, let alone a job.
Mr Heng said relevant skills, lifelong learning, and a growing economy are also needed.
Mr Heng was addressing some 300 Temasek Polytechnic graduands as well as their parents.
Mr Heng shared his recent experience of meeting the owner of a restaurant chain in Singapore.
He said the owner had found China-made robots that could be programmed to cook up to a thousand dishes.
"What matters at the end of the day are deep skills and expertise, and excellent performance on the job. We must learn, as technology evolves and the global economy changes, to be the ones to invent and programme our robots, not the ones to be displaced, if we are to have fulfilling careers."
Some 5,000 Temasek Polytechnic students will be graduating from 54 full-time diploma courses, and six part-time specialist and diploma courses, over five days.
The first cohort of 66 students from the diploma in Early Childhood Studies will also graduate.