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Job Fair for Ethnic Minorities

With the support of the Labour Department, Christian Action organized a Job Fair for ethnic minorities on 4th October 2007 at Henry Leong Yaumatei Community Centre. This is the second year we held this job fair, and we hope to provide the better educated and more motivated ethnic minorities a convenient occasion to seek jobs. We have received full support from the Vocational Training Council and the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau. Mr. Byron Ng, Assistant Commissioner (Employment Services) of the Labour Department officiated at the opening ceremony.

24 employers had offered over 400 job vacancies for non-Chinese job seekers. Most of the jobs are in the catering, security and property management, logistics and hotel industries. Over 200 ethnic minorities joined the Job Fair, some of them were employed on the spot.

Mrs. Cheung Ang Siew Mei, Executive Director of Christian Action encouraged the ethnic minority job seekers to equip themselves with the necessary skills and always embrace a positive attitude to seeking jobs, "Due to differences in race and culture as well as not having the recognized qualifications, employment difficulties are common among all the new arrivals and ethnic minorities in the society. Ethnic minorities are marginalized and rejected by many employers and the main stream society. However, the Employees Retraining Board has already launched training courses in different industries with English as the teaching medium, in order to enhance the competitiveness of the ethnic minorities. I encourage you to equip yourself with new job skills and to put more efforts to learn Chinese, thus to improve your employability."