PROcruit C Industry Forum, initiated by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust and organised by HKCSS, was successfully held on 10 December 2021. Guest speakers shared their views on ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) industry and inspired participants to actively respond to the rapid development of ESG. Around 130 participants joined the hybrid forum, including PROcruit C Employers and Trainees, corporates and NGO partners and undergraduates.

The forum started by a sharing of Ms Winnie Yip, Executive Manager of Charities (Grant Making – Arts, Culture, Heritage and Talent Development) of The Hong Kong Jockey Club. She introduced the concept that PROcruit C promotes, which the programme supports youths who are interested in ‘Caring is a Profession’ career, by providing them a series of training including on-boarding training, a year-long traineeship and on-the-job training, and helping them to understand and enhance their VASK (Values, Attitudes, Skills, Knowledge) throughout the traineeship.

Prof. Carlos Lo, Director of Centre for Business Sustainability of The Chinese University of Hong Kong shared that more and more corporates see ESG as an important element in their business development, leading to a rapid increase of demand for ESG talents. ‘Talent in ESG industry is shifting from experience-based to knowledge-based. ESG has become a professional career and provides a life-long career ladder’.

Ms Kathy Cheung Tesvich, Head of Corporate Responsibility of Hang Seng Bank believed that the ESG industry is suitable for youths to explore their careers with its unbounded possibilities. ‘No matter what major you are studying at the university, you can find your way to develop in the sustainability industry. The collaboration between various professions will create opportunities.’

Ms Joyce Leung, Senior Corporate Affairs u0026amp; Culture Manager of Fimmick Limited compared the progress of job-seeking and self-exploring to an onion. ‘The outermost layer is the industry that you are eager to join; the middle layer is to look for a corporate and to observe its working culture and career prospects; the inner layer is your passion.’ Leung mentioned that youths must keep their passion while exploring their desired careers layer by layer.

Apart from passion, young people’s creativity is another important element to push forward the development of the ESG industry. Ms Jojo Chu, Corporate Communication Manager of New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association believed that youth can bring positive impacts to the overall society with their creative mindset to analyze social issues in a different way. Chu encouraged youths not to look down on themselves and to count on their unbounded potentials.

Last but not least, sharing from PROcruit C Employers and Trainees, including Ms Ophelia Lin, Founder and Managing Director of Meiriki Japan Company Limited and their trainee Ms Maggie Cheng, and Ms Leontine Chuang, CEO of the American Club Foundation and their trainee Ms Shirley Kwan, echoing with Yip’s introduction on the concept of PROcruit C programme. They agreed that PROcruit C allowed youths to better prepare and learn about themselves before entering the industry while allowing employers to discover and cultivate ESG talents.

To end the forum, guest speakers emphasized the unbounded possibilities of ESG industry, the potential of young people, and the importance of staying passionate about the work. Youths are encouraged to look for a career that has a passion for, ‘find yourself at work, and find the meaning of the work!’

The first seminar of the u0022Creating a Happy Workplaceu0022 Sharing Series, Healthy Workplace – Good mental health and wellbeing of employees was successfully held on 18 November, with professional guest speakers Dr Felix Cheung, Clinical Psychologist of The Mental Health Association of Hong Kong, Dr Candice Powell, Clinical Psychologist of the New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association, and Mr Alan Chan, Social Work Consultant of the Hong Kong Family Welfare Society, to share their valuable opinions and experiences with more than 80 employees. The sharing session introduced the pressure of employees, the community and corporate support services for employees’ mental health, and ways to achieve physical and mental wellbeing.

Through the networking corner, the participants were able to know more about community resources, the key success factors in achieving employee mental health and wellbeing and to make friends with different sectors for more partnering opportunities.

Dr Felix Cheung introduced the pressure of employees

Dr Candice Powell shared her experience in stress management

Mr Alan Chan shared successful stories of Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

The sharing session was well attended with over 80 participants coming from different industries

Prelude to the u0022Caring Companyu0022 20th Anniversary: Sustainable Partnership • Impactful Changes was successfully held on 18 May 2021. An Online Networking session was held which shared three social issues with participants: u0022Technology in Ageing Society x CareFood x Smart Cityu0022, u0022Subdivided Unit Social Housing Community Developmentu0022 and u0022Corporate x NGO．Impactful Changes．Sustainable Developmentu0022. We hope to inspire representatives from different sectors to explore new partnership opportunities.

On-line cross-sectoral collaboration：

Technology in Ageing Society x CareFood x Smart City

Subdivided Unit Social Housing Community Development

Corporate x NGO．Impactful Changes．Sustainable Development

In addition to the Online Networking, we had our long term partners who have been supporting HKCSS to join the Launch Ceremony of the Community Recovery. More cross-sectoral collaboration will be developed and launched to create impactful changes in helping community recovery and support to the needy groups in the coming year.

Snapshot of the Launch Ceremony of the Community Recovery：

Series of u0022Health Care Support to On-job Caregiversu0022 Webinar had completed. With the spotlight on the on-job caregivers of rehabilitation, elderly and SEN children, our guest speakers provided useful tips to relieve stress for the on-job caregivers during webinars.

You are welcome to reach us via email for the pamphlets if you are interested to receive the information of the captioned sharing session.

Email: caringcompany@hkcss.org.hk

u0022Health Care Support to On-job Caregiversu0022~ Children with Special Education Needs at the webinar on 15 Jan, community support services for caregivers and care recipients on SEN focus were introduced. We also discussed about the needs of emotional management and demonstrate related skills, and shared how companies implement friendly measures to support their employers in need.