HK Companies Seek Mainland ProfessionalsEmployers from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) opened a two-day fair here Thursday to seek eligible professionals from the motherland's interior areas.Among these employers are overseas-invested companies, transnational corporations and Hong Kong-based enterprises that seek professionals in the information technology and financial service sectors. Successful candidates are required to hold at least a bachelor's degree and have work experience in relevant fields, sources say. It is estimated that Hong Kong will need some 100,000 IT professionals and 220,000 financial service professionals by 2005. Presently, the SAR has over 13,000 vacancies for IT professionals each year. Researchers and developers are paid no less than between 40,000 and 60,000 Hong Kong dollars per month, according to sources. The SAR government implemented an admission scheme on June 1 this year to attract professionals from the interior areas to work in Hong Kong. The move aims to meet the SAR's manpower needs and enhance competitiveness of Hong Kong-based companies in the international market. Initially, only those engaged in the IT and financial services industry are eligible to apply for admission. They must be offered a job by a Hong Kong registered company, but there is no ceiling or quota limit to how many professionals in these fields can be admitted. Guangzhou, as a neighboring city to the SAR with an abundance of professionals, will become a "green channel" for professionals from the interior areas to work in Hong Kong. Sources say the first group of successful candidates will leave for Hong Kong before the end of July. |
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