CW Chu College The Chinese University of Hong Kong eNewsletter

For more details about the workshop on 8 October 2018, please refer to Page 71 of the Report of the Master published in 2018.

Intensive Interview Training Programme

The programme comprised two workshops: the Workshop on Interview Skills on 3 November 2018 and Mock Interviews on 17 November 2018.

The former was a brown-bag workshop hosted by Mr CC CHOI, former Secretary General, Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority. During his sharing on the 'Gateway to Ace Job Interviews', he introduced the 15 participants to interviewers' expectations in an individual interview, ways to impress, questions commonly asked, how to answer some tricky questions and do's and don'ts during an interview.

The Mock Interviews provided a practice job interview for our students to develop interview strategies, improve their communication skills and reduce their stress before an actual job interview. It was a great honour for the College to have a team of 12 prominent figures from different sectors as the panel interviewers, thanks to the connections introduced by Prof Wai-Yee CHAN, College Master.

The 16 participants were each interviewed by a panel constituted based on their fields of interest and preferences, so that they could have a specific and realistic experience. Immediately after the interviews, the panellists reviewed with the interviewees their strengths and weaknesses.

To the Workplace Programme

A brand new programme, To the Workplace, was launched in Term 2, 2018–19, aiming to prepare Year 3 and 4 students for succeeding in job interviews and the world of work with individual support from workplace mentors recruited from outside campus. Each cycle it lasts for two terms across two academic years.

The programme starts in the second term of an academic year. Year 3 participants are expected to gain a realistic understanding of the employment situation in Hong Kong in their indicated areas of work interest. Based on their preferences, they are matched with workplace mentors who are highly experienced professionals from relevant fields, with the help of Prof Peter LAI Hing-Ling, former Secretary for Security, HKSARG and currently Honorary Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, The University of Hong Kong. Through one-on-one encounters with the students, the workplace mentors help them explore and refine their real work interest, and learn more about the work stream, market condition and prospects of a job field, as well as personality and character suitability. Shadowing or extended visits to relevant companies/ organisations/ positions may be arranged.

In the first term of the next academic year, the Year 3 participants, then in Year 4, could acquire skills helpful to securing jobs in their indicated areas of work interest. Talks and workshops on CV writing, interview skills and etiquette could be organised for the students; intensive small group interview skills drilling would be given to the students; and mock interviews may be conducted by workplace mentors or relevant companies or organisations.

In the first cycle, 10 students have been matched with workplace mentors from fields like banking and finance, engineering, law, education and journalism.