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Friday, December 29, 1972
CAREER EXHIBITION OPENS AT CITY HALL
Job Satisfaction Is Answer To Youth Unrest, Says Tsui
Too many of Hong Kong's young people are drifting into jobs for
which they are not suited, the General Manager of the Hong Kong and Shanghai
Bank, Mr. M.G.R. Sandberg, said today.
This was leading to dissatisfaction and disillusionment among youth
as well as serious loss of time and money to employers as a result of labour
turnover, he said.
Mr. Sandberg, who is a member of the Hong Kong Labour Advisory Board,
was speaking while officially opening the Labour Department's three-day Careers
Exhibition in the City Hall Exhibition Hall this afternoon.
He said that all too often young people ended up in the wrong job
simply because they lacked information and guidance, or did not try to plan
their futures. They did not know what they wanted to be, so they just took
the first job that came along.
"This careers exhibition is meant to provide information to young
people who are on the point of choosing a career," he said. "I hope it will
excite interest and be of use both to those who will soon have to choose jobs
and to those who will be offering them."
Mr. Sandberg called on Hong Kong employers to do more to help their
new employees in their introduction to working life. He said employers should
be patient with young employees who might not be productive when fresh from
school.
/He stressed