SUNDAY, MAY 1, 1988
WITH
THE HIGHER EDUCATION EMPLOYMENT SERVICE OFFERS FREE RECRUITMENT ASSISTANCE TO LOCAL EMPLOYERS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION OR RECOGNISED PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS AND A FREE PLACEMENT SERVICE TO JOB-SEEKERS WITH THESE QUALIFICATIONS.
APART FROM THE PLACEMENT SERVICE, ADVICE ON THE MARKET AND JOB-HUNTING TECHNIQUES WILL ALSO BE JOB-SEEKERS.
LAST YEAR, THE SERVICE RECEIVED MORE THAN 2,990 FROM EMPLOYERS AND REFERRED 9,170 JOB APPLICANTS TO CONSIDERATION REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 64 AND RESPECTIVELY OVER THE 1986 FIGURES.
CURRENT JOB PROVIDED TO
JOB VACANCIES EMPLOYERS FOR 17 PER CENT
DURING 1987, THE SERVICE ALSO ORGANISED A SERIES OF CAREERS SEMINARS IN AN EFFORT TO ACQUAINT JOB SEEKERS WITH UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ON EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES AND CAREER PROSPECTA IN DIFFERENT SEGMENTS OF THE JOB-MARKET AS WELL AS ΤΟ ENHANCE THEIR PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE ON JOB APPLICATIONS AND INTERVIEWING TECHNIQUES.
AROUND 200 JOB-SEEKERS REGISTERED WITH THE PARTICIPATED IN THESE SEMINARS.
"IN VIEW OF THE FAVOURABLE RESPONSE, SIMILAR SEMINARS ORGANISED AGAIN IN AUGUST THIS YEAR," THE SPOKESMAN SAID.
SERVICE
WILL
HIGH-SPEED VESSELS ORDERED FOR POLICE
ORDER WITH
THE MARINE DEPARTMENT HAS PLACED A $2.5 MILLION JAETAC ORIENT TRADING COMPANY LIMITED FOR THE SUPPLY OF TWO "SHARK CAT" HIGH SPEED POLICE VESSELS LATER THIS YEAR.
PYRKE, ASSISTANT
THE CONTRACT WAS SIGNED RECENTLY BY MR ALLAN DIRECTOR OF MARINE (SHIPPING), AND MR CLIVE HUTT OF JAETAC ORIENT.
THE TWO VESSELS, EACH COSTING $1.25 MILLION, WILL BE BUILT IN QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA, AND WILL BE DELIVERED TO HONG KONG AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER. THEY WILL THEN BE HANDED OVER TO THE POLICE.
"THESE EIGHT-METRE CRAFT ARE POWERED BY TWO 275 HORSEPOWRR OUTBOARD ENGINES AND WILL HAVE A TOP SPEED OF AT LEAST 40 KNOTS," MR PYRKE SAID.
"THEY ARE THE FIRST MULTI-HULLED CRAFT ΤΟ BE USED BY THE MARINE POLICE IN HONG KONG BUT SIMILAR VESSELS HAVE BEEN IN USE BY THE AUSTRALIAN POLICE FOR SOME YEARS, HE ADDED.
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