The public Macao Polytechnic University (MPU) hosted its “Careers Day” yesterday on its campus on Rua de Luís Gonzaga Gomes, where over 100 companies from Macau and elsewhere in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) offered more than 2,000 job and internship opportunities across different industries.
The event was launched that morning with a ceremony. Among the industries represented at yesterday’s fair were IT, banking and finance, hospitality, tourism, education, and social services.
Aside from the fair for job and internship hunters, the one-day event also featured professional career talks, policy presentations, enterprise visits and career guidance, along with over 10 specialised seminars on various related topics.
In her speech, MPU Vice Rector Vivian Lei Nga Lin highlighted the importance of the MPU Careers Day series of events. She also noted that, based on its latest MPU Graduate Survey Report, over 85 percent of graduates secured employment or pursued further studies within three months of graduation.
Graduates are mainly employed in sectors including education, gaming and entertainment, tourism, MICE, hotel management and catering, public administration, and healthcare and nursing, with a median monthly salary of 15,000 patacas, according to Lei.
Most of those pursuing further studies, meanwhile, do so in the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macau, the UK, and Singapore, she noted.
Meanwhile, among those interviewed by reporters yesterday, a fourth-year accounting student said that she was confident of finding a job in her field, while a social work graduate added that she thinks there is strong demand for social workers in Macau. A fourth-year student in Chinese-Portuguese translation studies, meanwhile, said he planned to pursue further studies and hoped to find an internship to build work experience.
Students interact with booth operators offering job and internship opportunities at yesterday’s “MPU Careers Day” at the Macao Polytechnic University (MPU) campus on Rua de Luís Gonzaga Gomes. – Photo: Rui Pastorin
