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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