DAB’s Ethnic Minorities Service Centre ( EMSC ) and the Labour Department have once again collaboratively organized the “Building a Multicultural Workplace Job Fair” held at MacPherson Stadium this year around 50 participating organizations, including the Police force, Correctional Services department, various enterprises, and social service organizations. Around 2,100 members of the public entered this year’s job fair, and a large proportion of ethnic minorities participated, which was more than last year’s entry number of around 1,000 people. Within the ethnic minority community, some youths were studying and finding part-time jobs. Some wanted to change jobs or develop a career in a business or hotel-oriented field. As one of the event’s co-organizers, the Chairman of DAB’s EMSC, Vincent Cheng, expressed his hope that people from all walks of life can provide more career opportunities for ethnic minorities and enable the development of a multicultural working environment for everyone.More than 4,300 job vacancies were provided for job seekers, including the ethnic minority community. During these two consecutive days of the job fair, different jobs were provided, including engineer, physiotherapist, accountant, event assistant, flight operations officer, room attendant, sales, spa beautician, etc. From this, an array of job types provided for ethnic minorities enables them to choose selectively and enhances employment opportunities. Additionally, there were various ethnic minority agency services on site to provide different services and handle inquiries amongst the ethnic minorities, including the enrollment of suitable employment training courses.
During the job fair opening ceremony, we invited a few ethnic minority leaders to represent the Ethnic Minority Committee (EMC), Chairman of DAB’s Sham Shui Po Branch, Chan Wai-ming Samuel, Chairman of DAB’s Yau Tsim Mong Branch, Benny Yeung, District councilor Lau Pui-yuk and Ho Kwan-chau, Leo and other guests to participate in this year’s job fair event. Advisor of EMC, Mr. Hung, mentioned that EMSC is a unit under EMC. Since 2005, through EMC and EMSC, the center has supported ethnic minorities in their studies, employment, housing, social welfare, and any difficulties they struggle with. Also, proposing proposals to benefit the ethnic minorities to the government in creating a more socially inclusive society. He expressed gratitude towards the Labour Department and Labour and Welfare Bureau for this year’s job fair arrangement and The Commissioner for the Labour Department, Ms. Chan Wing-shiu May, for coming as an officiating guest. He also mentioned how this job fair attracts a lot of ethnic minorities currently finding employment opportunities, which is positive and encouraging.
Chief Editor and publisher of EM News Hong Kong and General Secretary of China Bangladesh Friendship Center-CBFC, Dr. Fakhrul Islam Babu, was one of the guests at the job fair.