News & Announcement

“Post to Compete” Social Media Advocacy Challenge 2021 – Call for Student Enrollment

Students are now invited to join our latest program, “Post to Compete” Social Media Advocacy Challenge 2021. Students from all disciplines in Hong Kong tertiary institutions are welcome to join.

Co-organised by Junior Achievement Hong Kong (JA HK) and the Competition Commission, the Challenge aims at instilling the value of fair competition into the minds of the younger generation and helping them develop essential future skills for the 21st century. Through expert sharing workshop, mentorship of business volunteers and hands-on experience of developing and implementing a social media campaign, participating student teams will be empowered to unleash their creativity, spread their ideas and promote public awareness on the importance of fair competition.

The winning team will be awarded:

• a valuable summer internship opportunity at the Competition Commission and Mr Law Wing-Chung’s consultancy company
• HK$30,000 cash
• trophy
• certificates

Students are welcome to form a team of 2-4 members. They can find out more in the attached and apply at https://posttocompete.hk/. The application deadline is 26 Jan 2021. The program timeline is as follows:

Greetings from the International Maths Olympiad Challenge team!

At the outset, let us introduce ourselves. We are among the largest International Maths Olympiad bodies in the world and we have an ongoing legacy for 24 years.  We have catered to more than 2 million students in the past and this year, with the assistance of partners like Deloitte, we are all set to hit 3 million students. We are based in Florida with key stakeholders all across the world. Our CEO, who is also an Assistant Dean at Harvard, would like to take this opportunity to invite your students to participate in a Student Ambassador program.

To begin with, we are shortlisting smart students from Hong Kong Baptist University who can intern with us (online) this Jan-Feb. This is of course a paid internship which will last for 6 weeks (30 working days). The remuneration is bespoke but to give some perspective, the average amount earned by a student last year was USD 848 in the 6 weeks window. There are no specific timings during this internship and the students are expected to work online after college hours only. We do not expect students to work during the exam periods.

The second aspect of this internship is an all-expense-paid trip to our campus in Florida. Candidates who excel in this internship will be nominated as a brand ambassador representing Hong Kong Baptist University at a fully sponsored 10-day conclave in Florida. This conclave will focus on promoting Maths in Hong Kong.  Of course, more details would be shared well before the conclave. Due to the pandemic and the consequent travel restrictions, we haven’t frozen the dates of the conclave yet, but we expect it to be conducted in the second half of next year with the selections to begin in Jan 2021.

We are committed to keeping you in the loop at every point of the selection process.

All the details regarding the internship and the Student Ambassador Program will be explained to the students during a webinar which will be conducted later this month. The interested students can then sign up with us after the webinar.

Eligibility – To participate, the student should be a current bonafide student pursuing under-graduation or post-Graduation from Hong Kong Baptist University. Ex-students/alumni cannot be invited to this internship.

About us and our team:  https://www.mathsolympiad.org/about-us/

Role of Deloitte: https://www.mathsolympiad.org/role-of-deloitte/

Olympiad details: https://www.mathsolympiad.org/about-the-olympiad/

HKSTP InnoAcademy - PROcruit : Call for first-time jobseekers interested in Tech for Good

PROcruit C offers first-time jobseekers a yearlong professional traineeship programme to drive their career development in four emerging areas: Creativity for Good, Technology for Good, Business for Good, and Healthcare for Good. HKSTP InnoAcademy is the Industry Convenor for the Technology for Good sector.

Date: 14 Dec 2020 (Monday)
Time: 5:00pm - 6:00pm HKT
Language: Cantonese
Format: Zoom

Registration: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=rHajks29K0O6uHKPJzazJ0zfDt78n_1Ira3k8dcJWY5URVVYQkpIV1ZOS0pDSDFCV0dJTkhLMExYSS4u&utm_source=HKSTP&utm_medium=ongrad&utm_campaign=edm

Details:

1. http://t.rimanggis.com/activities_web/viewMessage/e9a55e1d-3a94-4e35-9cc5-62fe0fa09b2d.xhtml?version=V1
2. https://www.procruitc.hk/zh?utm_source=HKSTP&utm_medium=ongrad&utm_campaign=edm

ASIA to JAPAN—a company based in Japan that connects job seekers from different countries to global Japanese companies looking for exceptional talents.

On November 20, 2020, the company has launched a coding contest: CODE TO JAPAN that will continue until December 20, 2020.

CODE TO JAPAN is a contest where participants compete with their coding skills to see how they fare against other programmers and/or AI engineers. The top scorers of which will be able to receive a cash prize, as well as be recommended to ASIA to JAPAN's numerous clients for a chance to find work in Japan (should they wish to be recommended).

Join the contest--especially those who would like to work in Japan someday, through your network.

■ Contest Details
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Contest name: CODE TO JAPAN
Official website: http://code.asiatojapan.com/
You can also see our clients who have partnered with us in the link above.
Contest period: 20th Nov. 2020 9:00 JST to 20th Dec. 2020 23:59 JST
Test Category: Challenge Types: "Algorithms Challenge" / "AI Challenge"

Prize:
1. 50,000 JPY for 1st place, 30,000 JPY for 2nd place, 10,000 JPY for 3rd place per test category
2. High performers will have a chance to interview with Japanese companies that will lead them to
    a job offer in Japan.
3. All participants will be awarded a certificate of participation.
    Prerequisites: ANYONE who can do coding and want to work in Japan

※Japanese level does not matter
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■Background of the contest

A lot of Japanese companies face the problems of the lack of the talented engineers and are constantly looking for talented engineers all over the world.

At the same time, due to the COVID-19 pandemic there are fewer job opportunities all over the world. IT students and engineers alike can find job opportunities in Japan through the contest.

The contest will broaden the job opportunities for students even for those who cannot speak Japanese.
We would like to have your cooperation in reaching the students who are facing the problems stating above.

HKUYA Student Exchange Network- SENlightenment

Application deadline: 10 Dec 2020

Details: https://form.jotform.com/202725117761048