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and Guidance Services Section of the Education Department works to ensure that careers education is established in every secondary school as an integral part of education. It monitors and assists in developing careers programmes at every level of secondary education. Work is also done through establishing and servicing the Hong Kong Association of Careers Masters and Guidance Masters, a government-subvented and school-based association of which about 79 per cent of all secondary schools are members. To facilitate teachers in careers guidance work, a Careers Education. Centre has been set up by the department. Besides serving as a careers reference library, this centre is also a focal point where careers teachers meet to exchange ideas and where students and the public can obtain careers advice.
Information on actual job vacancies in the employment market and free placement services are provided by the Local Employment Service (LES) of the Labour Department. The LES operates.from 12 offices. The facsimile system installed by the LES helps to speed up the dissemination of information on job vacancies and to improve operational effectiveness. The Higher Education Employment Service (formerly known as the Special Register) was established in 1973 as an extension of the LES. It helps the following to secure employment :
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graduates of the two local universities, polytechnics and post-secondary institutions;
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Hong Kong students who
students who have graduated from overseas
· universities or post-secondary/technical institutions, and who have returned or wish to return to Hong Kong for employment; and
local job-seekers who have completed post-secondary education or professional training.
The Vocational Training Council operates placement services to assist young people in finding employment as apprentices.
The Selective Placement Division of the Labour Department provides free employment assistance to the blind, the deaf and those
those with disabilities of orthopaedic or medical origin seeking open employment. With effect from 30 July 1984, the division took over from the Social Department the responsibility of assisting the mentally handicapped and ex-mentally ill in seeking open employment. The Selective Placement Division maintains a close contact with various government departments and voluntary welfare agencies in the field of vocational rehabilitation.
Vocational guidance and employment counselling are provided to the disabled job-seekers in the job placement process. Vocational training and of disabled persons are carried out by a multi-disciplinary team skills centres for the disabled of the Technical Education and Training Department. A representative of the Selective Division is a member of team ac the Kwun Tong guidance service is given scale by vocational counsellors.
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the multi-disciplinary vocational Skills Centre for the Disabled. to disabled trainees on a limited