Civil Engineering Date : 12 September, 2000 (Tuesday) Time : 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Venue : T6, Meng Wah Complex

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Civil EngineeringDate 12 September, 2000
(Tuesday)Time 1130 a.m. - 1230 p.m.Venue
T6, Meng Wah Complex
CAREERS EDUCATION PLACEMENT CENTRE
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Careers Education and Placement Centre

• Ms Cindy Chan
• Acting Senior Manager
• E-mail cpychan_at_hkucc.hku.hk
• Web http//www.hku.hk/cepc

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Objectives of this talk

• be aware of what you should gain from your course
  of study
• be aware of the occupations that are open to
  graduates from your course of study
• be aware of the actual occupations that graduates
  from the previous year entered
• how to locate information on job content skills,
  required by specific occupations
• know how to locate employment opportunities
• know how to locate resources on resume writing
  and selection interviews
• know how to use the CDT

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Your Degree in Civil Engineering ... What Next?

• Available occupations
• Directly related - Graduate Engineer, Site
  Engineer, Structural Engineer, Water Engineer,
  Environmental Engineer
• Civil Engineering degree would be useful - Sales,
  Marketing Buying, Insurance, Patent Work,
  Technical Journalism or Authorship, Legal Work,
  Teaching
• Careers open to all graduates - Accounting,
  administration, advertising, banking,
  broadcasting, community work, computing,
  financial management, insurance, marketing,
  public relations, publishing, purchasing,
  teaching, tourism etc
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• Where to find the above information ?
• The Career Development Track

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What skills have you gained

• knowledge and techniques special to civil and
  structural engineering
• logical thinking
• problem solving
• high level of numeracy
• computing
• communication
• presentation
• teamwork
• project management

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What do they do?

• Civil Engineer (Contracting)
• Uses professional expertise to ensure that major
  building projects are constructed according to
  specifications agreed with client and/or
  consulting engineers.
• Involves primarily with the implementation of the
  designs and plans on sites, and management of the
  labour force and materials, according to time and
  cost constrains.
• Detailed description available in Career
  Development Track (CDT)

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What do they do?

• Civil Engineer (Consulting)
• Responsible for planning, managing, designing and
  supervising the construction of a wide range of
  projects
• Provides services and advice to clients on all
  aspect of civil engineering
• May well specialise in certain types of projects
  such as transportation or water supply

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Civil Engineer - Skills personal qualities
required

• Work as members of a team and liaise with a
  number of different people including other
  engineers, sub-contractors, clients, quality
  surveyors and local authorities
• Need to keep up-to-date with the latest
  materials, methods and techniques in design and
  construction
• Use computer to calculate dimensions, produce
  accurate drawings, keep records and help plan the
  order in which work should be carried out
• Need the ability to cope with and solve any
  problems or difficulties that my arise on-site

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Duties of other occupations

• Available in
• Career
• Development
• Track

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Employment Situation(Civil Structural
Engineering)

• Employment Situation 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
• Unemployed 0 0 0 3.3 1.2
• Full-time employed 95.6 96.5 95.3 90.2 93
• Further Studies 4.4 3.5 3.5 6.5 6.1

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Employment Situation(C S E - Environmental
Engineering)

• Employment Situation 1996 1997 1998 1999
• Unemployed 0 0 0 0
• Full-time employed 87.5 92.3 100 100
• Further Studies 12.5 0 0 0

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Employment of 1999 HKU B.Eng. - Civil
Structural Engineering graduates

• Interim Survey of 2000 Eng(CSE)
• 2 out of 45 seeking for full-time job
• Interim Survey of 2000 Eng(CEEP)
• 1 out of 5 seeking for full-time job
• (as of 8 Sept, 2000)

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Employed as Civil and Structural Engineers

• 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
• CSE 98 100 88 92 95
• CEEP N/A 57 92 90 67

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Where did the 1999 HKU B.Eng. - Civil
Structural Engineering graduates go?

• Employers Job Title
• HKSAR- Civil Engineering Dept Civil Engineering
  Graduate
• HKSAR- Civil Engineering Dept Geotechnical
  Engineering Graduate
• HKSAR- Drainage Services Dept Civil Engineering
  Graduate
• HKSAR- Education Manpower Administrative
  Officer
• HKSAR- Highways Dept Civil Engineering Graduate
• HKSAR- Housing Dept Civil Structural
  Engineering
• Graduate
• HKSAR- Territory Development Civil Engineering
  Graduate
• Dept
• HKSAR- Water Supplies Dept Civil Engineering
  Graduate
• HKSAR- Water Supplies Dept Contract Works
  Supervisor
• HKSAR- Works Bureau Civil Engineering Graduate
• Binnie Black Veatch (HK) Ltd Assistant Engineer

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Where did the 1999 HKU B.Eng. - Civil
Structural Engineering graduates go?

• Employers Job Title
• China State Construction Engineering Corp
  Graduate Engineer
• Chiu Associates Consulting Engineers Ltd
  Graduate Engineer
• Chun Wo Foundation Ltd Assistant Engineer
• Chung Ng Consulting Engineers Ltd Assistant
  Engineer
• CKM Asia Ltd Assistant Engineer
• CWF Piling Civil Engineering Co Ltd Graduate
  Engineer
• Dragages Et Travaux Publics (HK) Ltd Engineer
  Trainee
• EEE Pacific Construction Ltd Graduate Engineer
• Excel Engineering Co Ltd Graduate Junior
• Fugro (HK) Ltd Assistant Engineer
• Greg Wong Associate Ltd Graduate Engineer
• James Lau Associates Ltd Graduate Engineer
• Maunsell Consultants (Asia) Ltd Graduate Engineer
• Maunsell Geotechnical Services Ltd Graduate
  Engineer
• Maurice Lee Associate Ltd Graduate Engineer

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Where did the 1999 HKU B.Eng. - Civil
Structural Engineering graduates go?

• Employers Job Title
• Meinhardt (C S) Ltd Graduate Engineer
• Mott Connell Ltd Graduate Engineer
• MTR Corporation Graduate Engineer
• Ove Arup Partners (HK) Ltd Graduate Engineer
• Scott Wilson (HK) Ltd Assistant Engineer
• Shanghai Construction Site Engineer
• Shui On Construction Materials Ltd Graduate
  Trainee
• Skanska Graduate Engineer
• The Hongkong Electric Co Ltd Graduate Engineer
• Victor Li Associate Ltd Graduate Engineer
• Virtual Light Communications Multimedia Designer
• Zen Pacific Civil contractors ltd Graduate
  Engineer

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Where did the 1999 HKU B.Eng. - Civil
Structural Engineering (Environmental
Engineering) graduates go?

• Employers Job Title
• HKSAR - Civil Engineering Dept Civil Engineering
  Graduate
• HKSAR - Environmental Protection Environmental
  Engineering
• Dept Graduate
• HKSAR - Highways Dept Civil Engineer Graduate
• China State Construction Engineering Graduate
  Engineer
• Co Ltd
• Flour City Architectural Metals Quality Assurance
  
• (Asia) Ltd Coordinator
• Golden Associates (HK) Ltd Environmental Engineer
• Maunsell Consultants (Asia) Ltd Graduate Trainee
• Organizations name not reported Marketing
  Executive

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Where did the 1999 HKU Civil Engineering
graduates go?
Basic Salary Mean Minimum Maximum CE
14,378 6,000 46,000 CEEP 14,449 10,000 19,
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---------------------------- Other info available
in The Career Development Track No. of job
offer received Time taken to secure employment
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Are these occupations suitable for you?
PROSPECT(HE) a computer-assisted careers
guidance system designed to help you with your
career planning you can expect the results of
the following - What you are good at - What
interests and motivates you - How these relate
to the world of work - What different jobs
involve - Your chance of getting into these
jobs, and - How to make effective job
applications
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Where can you find the job and how to apply for
it?

• NETjob
• NETmatch (application form available now!)
• Recruitment talks
• Vacancy notices / newspaper cutting
• Creative job search and networking (around 31 of
  1999 graduates got their job using creative job
  search)
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• Go to Career Development Track

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How to succeed in getting the job?

• Ways to develop your skills in the above areas?
• Written materials in the Career Development Track
  on resume writing and selection interview
  lthttp//www.hku.hk/cepcgt
• Training sessions run by CEPC

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How to get in touch with the CEPC

• e-mail
• CEPC Mailing list
• Distillery
• Help Desk

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Use CDT and PROSPECT (HE)

• to learn what you have gained from your course of
  study
• to learn what occupations are open to graduates
  from your course of study
• to learn what actual occupations that graduates
  from the previous year entered
• to locate information on job content skills
  required by specific occupations
• to locate employment opportunities
• to locate resources on resume writing and
  selection interviews

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