{"id":47765,"date":"2007-04-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/press\/current-cuhk-engineering-graduates-well-sought-after-by-employersmonthly-salary-shoots-up-to-40k\/"},"modified":"2007-04-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-23T00:00:00","slug":"current-cuhk-engineering-graduates-well-sought-after-by-employersmonthly-salary-shoots-up-to-40k","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/press\/current-cuhk-engineering-graduates-well-sought-after-by-employersmonthly-salary-shoots-up-to-40k\/","title":{"rendered":"Current CUHK Engineering Graduates Well Sought After by EmployersMonthly Salary shoots up to 40K+"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-47765","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"title_alt":"","sub_title_alt":"","press_date":"20070423","keep":false,"details":"<p>\t&ldquo;Most graduates have begun to hit the job market now, and our graduates are well sought after by employers.&rdquo; said Professor Wong Kam-Fai, Associate Dean (External Affairs) of the Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. &ldquo;We have received enthusiastic responses from companies to organize recruitment talks as early as late last year. Campus hiring has increased significantly; besides large corporations, many SMEs also threw recruitment talks on campus this year. Our graduates have always been employers&rsquo; favorites; many employers join our Work-study Program to identify potential candidates as early as possible.&rdquo;<\/p><p>\tThe Faculty of Engineering, CUHK has five departments and together they produce over 400 graduates each year, making the Faculty one of Hong Kong&rsquo;s hub for IT talents. According to the faculty&rsquo;s latest employment survey, over 90% of its graduates received their first offer before September, a large number of graduates (about 40%) have job offers before they have completed their study. Half of the students were paid more than 12K per month, while almost 20% received offers of over 14K per month. The demand of IT professionals is high; with nearly 80% of the graduates taking up IT and Engineering related jobs which are relevant to their university studies.<\/p><p>\t&ldquo;As in the past, this year many of our students received offers before graduation. Several outstanding graduates are paid handsomely (as high as HK$40,000 per month) to take up IT jobs in investment banks.&rdquo; said Professor Wong.<\/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":"719","photos_original":[{"photo":"070423_2.jpg","caption":"Liu Xiao Jun, Shawn, Hui Chi Tat, Billy and Suen Kin Dick, Raphael (from left to right) received offers of over HK$40,000 per month."}],"attachments_original":null},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/47765","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\/47765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}