\tThe employment rate and salary level of 2006 graduates of The Chinese University of Hong Kong are very satisfactory. A graduate employment survey showed as at the end of 2006, 98% of graduates were either employed or pursued further studies. The average monthly salary for those employed was HK$15,228. Among the graduates, the highest salary earner was a medical graduate who earned HK$63,000 per month. On average, every individual graduate got around 2.3 job offers.<\/p>
\tThe survey was conducted by the Career Planning & Development Centre of the Office of Student Affairs of the University from November to December 2006 by means of questionnaires and telephone interviews. It covered full-time first-degree graduates of 2006 and MB ChB graduates of 2005.<\/p>
\tOf all the 2,516 respondents, 98% were engaged in employment or pursued further studies.<\/p>
\tThe average monthly salary for those in employment was HK$15,228, which represents a 6.8% increase when compared with that of 2005. 93.9% of respondents were given their first job offers by the end of September 2006, showing similar number of graduates who secured employment by the same time in 2005.<\/p>
\tMost graduates joined the Commerce & Industry sector (70.3%), followed by Education (14.1%), Social & Public Organisations (12.8%) and Government (2.8%).<\/p>
\tThe top seven career fields engaged by our graduates were: Accounting \/ Auditing (11.1%), Banking and Finance (10.7%), Teaching (10%), Computer Engineering \/ Information Technology (9.4%), Administration \/ Management (7.8%), Medical & Health Services (7.8%) and Sales & Marketing (6.3%). In terms of job satisfaction, up to 93.4% were satisfied with their current jobs.<\/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":"725","photos_original":[{"photo":"070531_1.jpg","caption":"From left to right: \r\nMr Tam Kar Hung, Antony, 2007 graduate of Postgraduate Diploma of Education in Liberal Studies \r\nMr Fong Wing Ho, Tom, Head of Career Planning and Development Centre, CUHK\r\nMiss Chan Yeung-yun, Grace, 2007 BBA graduate\r\nMiss Choy Ka Ying, Kristy, 2007 BBA graduate (Quantitative Finance)"}],"attachments_original":null},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/47771","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\/47771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}