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MONDAY, MAY 23, 1988

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UP-MARKET JEWELLERY INDUSTRY SHORT OF SKILLED WORKERS: SURVEY

TIME

CONTINUE THE HIGH DEMAND FOR SKILLED JEWELLERY CRAFTSMEN WOULD TO EXIST FOR SOME YEARS ESPECIALLY AT A

WHEN THE INDUSTRY 19 VOCATIONAL TRAINING MOVING UP MARKET, ACCORDING TO THE FINDINGS OF A COUNCIL SURVEY.

OF

IN A SURVEY REPORT RELEASED TODAY (MONDAY), THE COUNCIL'S JEWELLERY INDUSTRY TRAINING BOARD NOTED THAT THE REMARKABLE GROWTH

YEARS HAD RESULTED JEWELLERY EXPORTS AND DOMESTIC SALES IN THE PAST IN AN ACUTE SHORTAGE OF SKILLED JEWELLERY WORKERS AT CRAFTSMAN LEVEL.

THERE WERE ABOUT

THE SURVEY RECORDED THAT IN JUNE LAST YEAR, 1,100 VACANCIES IN THE JEWELLERY INDUSTRY WHICH EMPLOYED 7.800 TECHNICAL WORKERS.

A TOTAL OF

THEY WOULD REQUIRE A

EMPLOYERS INDICATED IN THE SURVEY THAT LARGE NUMBER OF ADDITIONAL SKILLED CRAFTSMEN IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS.

THAT THE

INDUSTRY

HAD

THE BOARD ALSO NOTED

BEEN GRADUALLY SOME INTERNATIONALLY-RENOWNED EUROPEAN FIRMS MOVING UP MARKET WITH SETTING UP JOINT VENTURES IN HONG KONG.

TAKING

ACCOUNT

THE CONTINUING

EXPORT

GROWTH

OF THE TRAIN ABOUT YEAR FROM CRAFTSMANSHIP AND

OF INDUSTRY, THE BOARD RECOMMENDED THAT THE INDUSTRY SHOULD EIGHT TECHNOLOGISTS, 60 TECHNICIANS AND 800 CRAFTSMEN EACH NOW ON TO COPE WITH THE DEMAND OF HIGH STANDARD OF PRODUCTIVITY.

RECOMMENDED TRAINING

CRAFTSMAN

AND

THE BOARD HAS ALSO PUBLISHED A MANUAL OF PROGRAMMES FOR 14 PRINCIPAL JOBS AT TECHNICIAN, OPERATIVE LEVELS IN THE JEWELLERY INDUSTRY.

THE MANUAL IS DRSIGNED TO SERVE AS GUIDELINES FOR EMPLOYERS DRAWING UP TRAINING PROGRAMMES FOR THEIR EMPLOYEES.

IN

THE SURVEY REPORT AND THE MANUAL, AT $10 AND $10.50

SALE AT NOW AVAILABLE FOR

THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CONNAUGHT PLACE, CENTRAL.

EACH, ARE CENTRE

AT

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