\tThe employment rate and salary level of the 2007 graduates of The Chinese University of Hong Kong are highly satisfactory. Results of a graduate employment survey show that as at the end of 2007, around 98% of the 2,547 responding graduates were either employed or pursuing further studies. The average monthly salary for those employed was HK$17,120. A medical graduate earned the top salary at HK$90,000 per month. On average, each graduate received around 2.3 job 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 2007 by means of questionnaires and telephone interviews. It covered full-time first-degree graduates of 2007 and MB ChB graduates of 2006.<\/p>
\tThe average monthly salary at HK$17,120 represents a 12.4% increase over the previous year. 93% of respondents were given their first job offers by the end of September 2007. The figure is similar to that of 2006 for the corresponding period.<\/p>
\tMost graduates joined the commerce and industry sector (70.9%), followed by education (12.8%), social and public organizations (12.6%) and Government (3.6%).<\/p>
\tThe top seven career fields engaged by our graduates were: accounting\/auditing (13.8%), banking and finance (12.9%), teaching (9.7%), computer engineering\/ information technology (9.1%), administration\/management (7.8%), medical and health services (9%) and sales and marketing (4.8%).<\/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":"423","photos_original":[{"photo":"20080522-1.jpg","caption":"(Front row, left) \r\nMr. LEUNG Yu Chiu, Raymond, Director, Office of Student Affairs, CUHK; and\r\nMr. FONG Wing Ho, Tom, Head of Career Planning and Development Centre, CUHK\r\n(Back row, from left) \r\nMr. NGAN Yu Pang, Dennis, BBA graduate, 2008;\r\nMiss LEE Shan Shan, Angel, BBA graduate, 2008;\r\nMr. ZHU Hai Yan, Graduate in Economics, 2008;\r\nMr. TSE Chi Keung, Graduate of Government and Public Administration, 2007; and \r\nMiss LUI Nga Kwan, Emily, Graduate of Postgraduate Diploma Programme in Education, 2008"},{"photo":"20080522-2.jpg","caption":"(From left) \r\nMr. NGAN Yu Pang, Dennis, BBA graduate, 2008;\r\nMiss LEE Shan Shan, Angel, BBA graduate, 2008;\r\nMr. ZHU Hai Yan, Graduate in Economics, 2008;\r\nMr. TSE Chi Keung, Graduate of Government and Public Administration, 2007; and \r\nMiss LUI Nga Kwan, Emily, Graduate of Postgraduate Diploma Programme in Education, 2008"}],"attachments_original":null},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/47468","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\/47468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}