Thursday, October 25, 1973
L.E.S. FINDS JOBS FOR 1,529
A total of 1,529 people were successfully placed in employment
by the Local Employment Service of the Labour Department in the third
quarter of this year.
Of these, 705 were placed in industry, 482 in commerce, 104 in
the government service, 134 in the public utilities and 104 in other
establishments, the head of the Employment Division, Mrs. SO WONG Mei-yee,
said today.
"Among those placed in industry, 389 were apprentices who joined modern apprenticeship schemes with the help of the Apprenticeship Training
Unit of the Labour Department," she said.
At present, the service has 261 vacancies on its books, "These
vacancies vary from executives to office boys in commerce, engineers to general workers in industry and artisans to messengers in the civil service,"
Mre. So said.
The service provides free facilities to assist employers and job-
seekers alike. Job-seekers are invited to register personally at any
branch of the Service, bringing with them their identity cards and a
photograph.
Employers with vacancies which they wish to fill are invited
to telephone any office of the Service. (Tel. No. 5-282523 and 3-688131).
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