\tThe employment rate and salary level of the 2008 graduates of The Chinese University of Hong Kong are highly satisfactory. Results of a graduate employment survey show that as at the end of 2008, around 96% of the 2,567 responding full-time graduates were either employed or pursuing further studies. The average monthly salary for those employed was HK$17,898. A medical graduate earned the top salary at HK$85,000 per month. On average, each graduate received around 2 job offers. Around 30% of the graduates obtained three or more offers. In terms of job satisfaction, about 95% were satisfied with their current jobs.<\/p>
\tThe survey was conducted by the Career Planning & Development Centre of the Office of Student Affairs, CUHK from November to December 2008 by means of questionnaires and telephone interviews. The findings covered full-time first-degree graduates of 2008 and MB ChB graduates of 2007.<\/p>
\tThe average monthly salary at HK$17,898 represents a 4.5% increase over the previous year. 92.4% of respondents were given their first job offers by the end of September 2008. The figure is similar to that of 2007 for the corresponding period.<\/p>
\tMost graduates joined the commerce and industry sector (69.1%), followed by social and public organizations (14.5%), education (13.2%) and Government (3.2%).<\/p>
\tThe top seven career fields engaged by our graduates were: accounting\/auditing (11.5%), banking\/finance (9.7%), medical and health services (9.6%), computer engineering\/information technology (9.3%), teaching (9.3%), administration\/ management (7.4%) and sales\/marketing (6.2%).<\/p>","show_as_achievement":false,"achievement_category":[],"show_as_clarification":false,"show_as_announcement":false,"photos":null,"attachments":null,"video_source":null,"video_file":null,"add_play_button":false,"video_caption":"","show_migration":false,"original_id":"232","photos_original":[{"photo":"090513_1.jpg","caption":"From left: Mr. Raymond Leung, Director, Office of Student Affairs, CUHK; five fresh graduates: Jenny Siu, Tim Xian, Swani Wu, Eddy Li and Elizabeth Yeung; and Ms. Dora Dai, Head of Career Planning and Development Centre, CUHK"},{"photo":"090513_2.jpg","caption":"The fresh graduates of CUHK"}],"attachments_original":null},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/47273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/47273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}