S5 Careers Week 2018

Our Career Counselling and Life Planning Education Team and our English Department had yet brought another unique experience for our S5 students this year, with the aim to enhance our their knowledge about the breadth of post-secondary education and careers opportunities available to them. From 26th March to 29th March 2018 this year, an array of insightful career-related activities, (e.g. governmental organisations, companies, tertiary institutes) were arranged to encourage our S5 students to reflect upon their own interests and strengths, to better understand those multiple pathways including post-secondary education choices available to them, to raise their awareness towards the world of work and requirements by both the current and future workplace, and most importantly, to EMPOWER them to make INFORMED choices and lead a goal-driven life.

Before the Careers Week, all S5 students had already completed a Careers Interest Inventory Assessment (CII), an empirically-based quantitative assessment on career inclination launched by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, based on John Holland’s theory on the Six Personality Types. All S students were then divided into six groups, namely, Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional, with reference to the results of the assessment:
  1. Briefing on 2030 Workplace, by Ms Joanna Lee, Head of Career Counselling and Life Planning Team (Talk)
  2. Multiple Pathways and Interview Skills, by Mr Raymond Chan, Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups (Talk)
  3. Qualifications Frameworks, by  Ms Alice Wong, Qualifications Framework Secretariat (Talk)
  4. Immigration Department: Immigration Service Institute of Training and Development and Training (Site Visit and Career Talk)
  5. Hong Kong International Airport (Site Visit and Career Talk)
  6. HKU SPACE (Mei Foo) (Online Business and Retail Technology Workshop)
  7. IVE (Sha Tin) (Campus Visit and Taster Workshop)
  8. Open University of Hong Kong (Campus Visit)
  9. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Campus Visit)
  10. Independent Commission Against Corruption (Workplace Visit and Career Talk)
  11. Daikin Air Conditioning (Career of Air Conditioning Technicians) (Workplace Visit cum Career Talk)
  12. School of Continuing and Professional Studies, CUHK (Campus Visit)
  13. IVE (Lee Wai Lee) (Campus Visit and Taster Workshop)
  14. Shue Yan University (Campus Visit)
  15. Beauty Tech Institute Limited  (Workplace Visit cum Career Talk)
  16. Crystal Knitting and Garment Company Limited (Factory Visit in Dongguan)
  17. Hong Kong Design Institute (Tiu King Leng) (Campus Visit and Taster Workshop)
  18. Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) (Campus Visit and Taster Workshop)
  19. Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts (Campus Visit)
  20. Tai Po Ambulance Depot  (Workplace Visit cum Career Talk)
  21. Hong Kong School of Motoring (Workplace Visit cum Career Talk)
  22. Hotel and Tourism Institute (HTI) and Chinese Culinary Institute (CCI) and International Culinary Institute (ICI)
  23. Hong Kong Community College (Polytechnic University HKCC)
  24. Education University of Hong Kong (Campus Visit)
  25. HKU SPACE (Admiralty)
  26. IVE (Kwun Tong) (Campus Visit and Taster Workshop)
  27. Hang Seng Management College (HSMC)
  28. City University of Hong Kong (Campus Visit)
  29. Marine Department  (Workplace Visit cum Career Talk)
  30. Lingnan University (Campus Visit)
  31. Debriefing cum Sharing by Alumni (Quiz Game, Give and Take Wishing Tree, Alumni Sharing)
This was the third year when the Careers Week was held in collaboration with our school’s English Department. Students were required to keep a Careers Logbook and complete a variety of thought-provoking and reflective BINGO tasks, which would ultimately lead them to complete a summative assessment under the English Language Module “Post-secondary Communication”. In addition, those records would become evidence of their experience and reference materials for their personal statements to be submitted in their applications to universities or tertiary institutes. On the last day, after an exciting Careers Running Men Quiz Game, 7 alumni returned and delivered an alumni sharing session during our debriefing session. During which they shared about their hopes when they were S5 students, factors that they made them choose those university programmes that they were attending and advice that they had four S5 students when choosing university programmes. It was a wonderful afternoon when all current and old boys and girls gathered together in a hall that they were familiar with, sharing about aspirations. Our students also wrote down their own aspirations on our Give and Take Wishing Tree to be placed inside our Career and Life Planning Education Centre.
From May to June, students would be invited to attend Group Counselling Sessions with their class teachers.
Our Career Team would like to thank all teacher leaders including S5 English Teachers and Career Teachers for their participation and support. We would also like to thank all companies, governmental organisations and tertiary institutes for their hospitality and arrangements. It was truly another fruitful and inspiring journey for all our S5 students.
For more information regarding the S5 Careers Week, please contact our Head of Career Counselling and Life Planning Ms Joanna Lee at 26851210 or lcw@elearn.ltpss.hk.