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Summer Innovator Programme 2021 - “Ignite your Passion, Jumpstart a Purposeful Career”

The pandemic may might have shifted your way of living, but it could also be that you got some epiphanies and made  you appreciate more things around you. This summer, instead of just looking for a potential internship offer to fill up the  gap on your CV, you can also consider looking for more fulfilment and purpose in your work and live your life to the  fullest.   

With HKBN’s core purpose to ‘Make our Home a Better Place to Live’, we consider profit to be a subset of PURPOSE and  we run HKBN for PURPOSE. Apart from a wide range of business exposure in your preferred working department, we will  have our ‘Summer Innovator’ to explore purposeful initiatives including creating innovations for CUSTOMERS,  maximizing Total Rewards for HKBN TALENTS, fostering win-win partnership with SUPPLIERS, utilizing our technology  and expertise to drive COMMUINTY betterment and striving for ENVIRONMENTAL excellence.   

Be ready to jump out of the comfort zone and be an inspired head-start for your career. Our programme has been  adventurously designed to mould our young Talents into future leaders through finding a purposeful career. The world is  constantly changing, but there are still ways to become the best version of yourself here and now. At HKBN, we hope  you will be excited about what you’re doing, and value the end goal that would create a better impact.  

We light up your HKBN Journey:   
• The choice is yours! Choose your preference of department you would like to join including Corporate 
Communications/ Marketing, Business Development/ Corporate Sales, Customer Services / Sales Support, Digital 
Transformation, Information Security, Information Technology, Legal & Regulatory, Network Technology, Talent 
Engagement (Human Resources) and more….  

• Take one step forward to go beyond laws and regulations so that we can all get upgraded and achieve great 
success together for our 5 core stakeholders including Customers, Suppliers, Talents, Environment and 
Community.  

• Drive different initiatives with our Business Partners e.g. Mother’s choice and be the community leaders in 
generating new ideas and to drive HKBN’s core purpose - “Make our home a better place to live”. Potential 
secondment to Mother’s Choice too during internship for selected summer innovators for further crossover 
exposures.  

• Engage with elite business leaders and shadow our senior management to harness their entrepreneurial 
thinking. 

• Experience HKBN unique Talent-First culture during the 8-week innovation journey  

We are hungry for Talents who are:   
✓ University students from Year 1 to Year 4  
✓ Open to all disciplines (we welcome you to challenge yourselves and choose an interest of field which is different from your field of study as long as you can show how you fit the role)  

✓ Excited about exchanging ideas with elite teammates in different regions as we will have Summer Innovator hired in Hong Kong, mainland China, Singapore and Malaysia office 

✓ Internship period: from mid/ late June to late August (around 8 weeks)  

If you are interested in this opportunity, please CLICK HERE to share with us your CV and engage in a simple  application process   
Application link: https://hkbnsi2021.wufoo.com/forms/s1eqr1pw1gyqbue/  

Greater Bay Area Youth Employment Scheme

為鼓勵和支持青年人到大灣區內地城市工作和發展事業，政府於2021年1月推出「大灣區青年就業計劃」，鼓勵在香港及大灣區內地城市均有業務的企業，聘請香港的大學畢業生，派駐他們到大灣區內地城市工作。計劃共提供2 000個名額，當中約700個專為創科職位而設。

參加計劃的畢業生須為持有香港或香港以外院校在2019至2021年頒發的學士或以上學位，可合法在港受僱工作的香港居民。參與計劃的企業須在香港按照香港法例及以不低於月薪18,000港元聘請目標畢業生，並派駐他們在大灣區內地城市工作及接受在職培訓。政府會按企業聘用的每名畢業生，發給企業每人每月10,000港元港元的津貼，為期最長18個月。

有興趣申請有關職位的畢業生，可瀏覽大灣區青年就業計劃網頁(http://www.jobs.gov.hk/GBAYES)，參閱計劃詳情及職位空缺資料。如對計劃有任何查詢，請聯絡「大灣區青年就業計劃」秘書處(電話：2969 0460 / 2969 0446；電郵：GBA-employment@labour.gov.hk )。

「LEAD Engineer導師培育計劃」, a STEM Education Trainer incubation programme tailored for Undergraduates or postgraduates in engineering, IT, science or education.

「LEAD Engineer導師培育計劃」were successfully held last year. Outstanding trainees, who have completed the Scheme, have gained actual working experiences by delivering workshops to around 1,500 students in schools as well as Virtual InnoCarnival 2020.

「LEAD Engineer導師培育計劃」will be organized again this year. In this Scheme, a comprehensive 15-hour training which will be offered, training including STEM workshop designs, classroom management and hot science & technology topics, for equipping the educators in the latter mock-up and practicum sessions. Outstanding young educators will be invited to collaborate with HKFYG to host STEM educational activities in youth community centres and schools.

For the details of the Scheme, please refer to our website at https://ce.hkfyg.org.hk/parents-kids-zone/talent_schemes/lead_engineer_training/ . The application deadline will be on 28 Feb 2021.

The Greater Bay Area Youth Employment Scheme

The Greater Bay Area Youth Employment Scheme has been launched by the government to encourage and support young people to work and pursue their careers in the Mainland cities of the Greater Bay Area ("GBA").

The scheme will provide 2 000 places, around 700 of which are designated for innovation and technology (I&T) posts. Under the scheme, the graduates employed will receive a monthly salary of no less than HK$18,000. The Government will grant a monthly allowance of HK$10,000 to enterprises for each graduate employed for up to 18 months.

To join the scheme, eligible graduates should be Hong Kong residents lawfully employable in Hong Kong and hold bachelor's degrees or above awarded locally or by institutions outside Hong Kong from 2019 to 2021. For I&T posts, eligible graduates, besides meeting the above-mentioned criteria, should possess degrees related to science, technology, engineering or mathematics subjects. They should work in both Hong Kong and GBA Mainland cities, with each location taking up six to 12 months.

Please visit the dedicated website (www.jobs.gov.hk/gbayes) for more information. Students can search job opportunities there, and employers can post job vacancies.