Graduate Attributes (undergraduate level)
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4-Year Undergraduate Degree Curriculum
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Preferred Graduates | Employers | Alumni

What do employers expect you to learn to prepare yourself for your future profession?
Mr Wong Ming Yam, J.P.
Director & Special Advisor to the CEO
HK Science & Technology Parks
  • "What you learn from textbook, you still need a lot more before you can become a successfull businessman."

Mr Edward Au
Partner
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CPA Ltd (China)
  • "Working as part of the team is one of the most important elements in successful career and life."
  • "Every day, you would encounter a lot of issues and you need an analytical mind to identify problems and work out solutions to them."

Mr Jack C.K. Yeung
CEO
Ace Cooperation Holdings Ltd
  • "In the manufacturing industry, my expectations of employees and graduates are that they have the design skills and engineering skills."
  • "If you have a strong sense and passion for the products, you will perform better, and that is what I expect you to learn from your studies."
  • "A good attutide determines the success of everything, so this is my major requirement for employees and graduates."
  • "To develop your career in product design, you will be facing a wide range of clients from all over the world, therefore, language and presentation skills are crucial."

Mr K.K. Tong
Senior Manager
Dah Chong Hong (Motor Service Centre) Ltd

Based on the retail service and technical motor support our company provides, I believe that employees and gradautes should have the following qualities:

  • knowledge of customer services as they have to get in touch with a wide range of clients and serve them
  • competent language abilities and communication skills, not only for communicating with clients and understanding their needs, but also for using English to work with the factories on technical issues
  • a strong engineering background to provide professional advice to clients and to solve technical problem

I would wish to give the following advice to the current students:

  • word hard and always think positively
  • have a positive attitude; have the courage to face problems and to think of ways to solve them
 

Mr Frederick Au
Department Manager (Occupational Therapy)
Prince of Wales Hospital

To provide quality rehabilitation services, I believe that employees and graduates should:

  • be humble and have a spirit of continuous learning; one has to keep learning the ever-emerging knowledge and skills of the profession in order to meet clients' needs
  • have social and interpersonal skills; one often has to work collaboratively, so s/he should be smart to understand what others want in the workplace
  • help nurturing the junior when they are experienced

I think current students have to:

  • understand clearly the core values of the discipline that they are studying
  • learn the importance of synergy, learn to respect and confer with others
 

Mr Lau Wing Kit, Keff
Senior Manager
Bureau Veritas (HK) Ltd

In the products testing industry, the following qualities are expected from employees and fresh graduates:

  • have basic knowledge and concepts of applied sciences and engineering, as the tests relate to physics, chemistry, biology, electricity, etc.
  • be a good team player; the whole process of product testing is like a project which involves collaboration among the equipment enigneers, operation colleagues and colleagues overseas
  • have communication skills; those who provide customer service and technical consultation have to directly communicate with the clients, explanining the test results and providing professional advice on product design to them
  • have presentation skills; employees sometimes have to present and explain the new regulations on product design to the local and mainland companies or factories
  • be tough; they have to work long hours, especially during the peak seasons; also it is not easy to get promoted unless they accumulate much knowledge and experience in the field
 

Mr Leo Lee
General Manager
Stanford Hotels International

I expect that fresh graduates should possess the following qualities in order to serve the hotel industry:

  • have a good attitude; be willing to work with others and be sociable so as to work in an industry which deals with different kinds of people
  • be mentally and physically ready to serve the industry; be ready to work shifts and expect to work on public holidays and at the major festivals
  • have a basic knowledge of the industry, such as the organisation of a hotel, its daily opeartions, etc.
  • be humble and willing to learn at all times; the things learnt at university may be diferent from the real situations; they should learn how to deal with different people and respond on the same issue
 

Mr Wallace Li
General Manager, Racecourse Catering Operation
The Hong Kong Jockey Club

Serving the catering and hospitality industry, I believe that employers and fresh graduates should have the following qualities:

  • love the job; be willing to work without expecting any return
  • have logical thinking and problem-solving skills; for example, to accomplish a promotion task, one has to define the objectives clearly, and then think of some strategies to achieve them
  • have people skills in order to communicate with, and handle the numerous customers and staff
  • have leadership skills in order to manage subordinates, treat them fairly to make them feel respected and motivated to work wholeheartedly for the assigned tasks

I advise current students to:

  • do part-time jobs to experience more and widen their exposure to the industry
  • set a clear goal for themselves, then decide their career path accordingly