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August 3, 2024
The Joint University Programmes Admissions System (JUPAS) will release its results next Wednesday. I would like to extend my best wishes to all candidates of the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) who could find the path that best fit them. DSE is just one of many stops in one’s life journey, and there are still many possibilities ahead. By exploring different professions at an early age, it helps not only broaden one's horizons, plan well for a life career, it also helps young people choose the best career path for themselves.
Maritime Career Planning Workshop
In recent years, elements of lifelong learning and career information have been embedded in the curriculum of primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong, with a view to equipping the students with the necessary knowledge, skills and attitude so that they can make the wise choices in accordance with their interests, abilities and career aspirations. The Hong Kong Maritime Port Board therefore also strengthens its educational efforts to primary and secondary schools through maritime-themed publications and STEM workshops, so as to cultivate students’ interest in the maritime field at an early stage.
We have commissioned a youth training organisation earlier to conduct career planning workshops for a total of 10 primary and secondary schools. The workshops are divided into primary school version (for students from Primary 4 to Primary 6) and secondary school version (for students from Secondary 4 to Secondary 6), addressing the career planning needs of different age groups.
The primary school version focuses on introducing various maritime professions in an interesting and interactive way, and allowing the students to match the jobs with their own talents. It aims to inspire them to explore maritime-related careers in their formative years by fostering an early interest in the maritime field.
Senior secondary school students are at a critical stage in dealing with public examinations, subject selection, career choices, etc. Our career planning workshop focuses on introducing the various types of maritime professions available and their different job requirements, thus helping students to understand and differentiate among careers, jobs, sectors. By guiding students to reflect on and review their interests, abilities and aspirations, they can gain a better understanding of themselves and formulate medium- and long-term goals for study or career development.
Career Planning Workshop for Primary School:
Enhancing students' understanding of the maritime industry through the playing of video clips related to the various maritime sectors. Besides, with the aid of talent cards, students could analyse the characteristics of different occupations and the personality traits required.
Playing a matching game by using a newly designed maritime job cards and photos of the real workplace environment. This game helped students understand the collaboration among different maritime professions and thus trained their creative thinking.
Through matching the talent cards with a map of dream jobs, the students could be inspired to think of the personal traits required for various professions and appreciate the strengths and talents of themselves and their classmates, hence enriched their personal life stories.
Secondary School Version of the Career Planning Workshop:
Using the maritime industry as an example, the students could understand the functions of different departments within an enterprise and how they would cooperate with each other through matching different performance indicators against different departments.
Through analysing the personal traits and career interests of oneself and friends, the participating students could identify their top 10 careers from 200 different occupations.
Each participating student would receive a set of 10 double-sided maritime job tip cards, introducing different maritime professions, their career and promotion prospect, relevant professional training courses and associations, etc., allowing students who are interested in the maritime industry to better equip themselves.
Participating students were highly engaged, and many of them expressed that the workshop broadened their knowledge about different professions in the maritime industry. I am also pleased to learn that some students said that they would consider maritime professions such as maritime lawyers, naval architects, maritime insurance brokers, captains, chief engineers, as well as positions like Maritime Officers and Inspectors in the Marine Department as their future career goals.
Let's watch the videos together to learn more about the workshop on-site and the students' feedback and responses after the activity:
“Boat Tour cum Sharing Session” under the Maritime and Aviation Internship Scheme
The “Maritime and Aviation Training Fund” is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Its flagship program, the “Maritime and Aviation Internship Scheme”, has been progressing very well, and providing over 2,500 maritime related internship opportunities in the past 10 years.
The Internship Scheme allows young people to early understand the daily operations and career prospects of the maritime industry, helping them gain the relevant knowledge, enhance work competence, and discover their own interests.
The Under Secretary for Transport & Logistics, Mr. LIU Chun San, earlier attended the “Boat Tour cum Sharing Session” organised by the Fund for a group of students participating in the Internship Scheme, and served as the honor of guest and delivered the welcome speech. In addition to face-to-face exchanges with industry leaders, students also visited the port and maritime facilities on both sides of the Victoria Harbour.
Through the “Maritime and Aviation Training Fund”, we are providing “nourishment” for the youth. We hope that they can soon discover their own interests and aspirations, so that we can entrust the future of Hong Kong's maritime industry to them. Let us work together to strengthen our International Maritime Centre.