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A TASTE OF WORK
UMP
大學廣場
APR 2014
Step Out for
Success
A
ccording to the
Report of Manpower Projection
2018
issued by the Labour and Welfare
Bureau, it is projected that the local manpower supply with first degree or postgraduate
qualifications will increase significantly from
788
,
400
(
23
.
1
%) in
2010
to
1
,
054
,
600
(
29
.
4
%) in
2018
. What's more, the labour force with postgraduate education is expected to increase at an
average annual rate of
7
.
1
% from
155
,
300
in
2010
to
267
,
900
in
2018
. When university degree is
no longer the golden ticket, university students nowadays are facing unprecedented challenges
in their career development.
The Student Counselling and Development Service is honoured to have Professor Leung Seung-
Ming Alvin, Dean of Faculty of Education, a counsel l ing psychologist as wel l as renowned
scholar in career counselling to share with us his views on career development of university
students.
1. Facing the increasing challenges of credential
inflation and globalization, how can students prepare
themselves better for their career development?
Due to the influence of globalization and communication
advances, knowledge transformation and transmission
are happening at a rapid pace. Subject knowledge
i s updated more regular ly than before and cross-
disciplinary collaboration is more common. In order to
stay competitive, students should be able to keep up
with the fast changing pace of the social-economic
environment and market demands by being life-long
learners who are constantly open to new knowledge.
On top of academic qual ifications, students should
also develop functional ski l ls which can be appl ied
and transferred to di fferent jobs. Funct ional ski l ls
are the "atoms" of ski l ls and they can be used in
multiple jobs and careers. Examples of functional skills
are what is known as the "
3
Cs", namely
creativity
,
communication
and
collaboration
: to think out of
the box and propose innovative ideas; to understand
and respond to the needs of others; and to work with
colleagues and co-workers effectively. There are many
functional skills that could be developed through the
university experiences, including ski l ls to work with
people, data, and things.
Student Counselling and Development Service