EMPLOYMENT
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small extent in mining and quarrying, traditional village industries still provide employment.
The number of workers who went overseas for work during the year was 2,150, compared with 2,650 in the previous year and 2,643 in 1968. Few of these workers were accompanied by dependants.
Permission to work in Britain is given by the British Department of Employment and Productivity through the Labour Department. During the year 990 permits and vouchers were issued, including six to Commonwealth citizens seeking unspecified employment, 290 to local people of British nationality going to specific jobs, and 694 to local residents of non-British nationality.
The Local Employment Service provides a placement service introducing job seekers to prospective employers and vice versa. During the year, the Service registered 14,018 workers, recorded 4,732 employers' orders for workers, and helped to place 2,517 workers in employment.
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The Youth Employment Advisory Service completed its first stage of development during which 33 careers pamphlets_were prepared and are being published in a loose-leaf booklet entitled 'A Guide to Careers in Hong Kong'. The Chinese versions of these pamphlets will be printed as they become available. The service has now entered its second stage of development which involves the giving of careers talks to senior pupils in secondary schools and the participation in careers conventions organised by school authorities and other establishments interested in careers for young people.
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING
By the end of the year, 10 manpower survey reports from the 10 industrial committees of the Government-appointed Industrial Training Advisory Committee had been forwarded to Government for consideration. Some of these reports, in both Chinese and English, are available to the public while others are still being printed. Considerable progress has been made by these industrial committees in the important task of preparing minimum job standards and specifications for the principal jobs in their respec- tive industries.