Career Coaching & Guidance
Be realistic if you want to change your career
I’m a 34-year-old tennis coach who works on average three hours a day and earns around HK$20,000 a month. I’m free from 9am to 3pm so I want to …
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Career Coaching & Guidance
Should I go after a ‘crossover’ qualification?
I’m a chartered civil engineer working in the construction industry where there are a lot of opportunities …
Career Coaching & Guidance
Make sure you have the skills for consultancy
With three years of experience notched up in the HR field, I would like to explore changing my career to management consultancy as the next …
Career Coaching & Guidance
Working your way up to become a legal eagle
I’m a recent law graduate from the United Kingdom and I’ve been studying towards gaining admissions for PCLL (conversions). I have been working as …
Career Coaching & Guidance
In tough times, switch or expand hunt for a job
I hold an MSc in financial engineering (quantitative finance), from City University [of Hong Kong], as well a bachelor’s in accounting, with around six years’ commercial banking experience from a top-tier …
Career Coaching & Guidance
Is a one-year contract worth risking my future?
I’m working for a public organisation on a three-year contract. It’s a permanent position and I recently received …
Career Coaching & Guidance
Postgrad diploma viable alternative to master’s
I am a 2011 graduate from HKU who majored in engineering and am currently working for a Big Four company as a …
Career Coaching & Guidance
Never too late to progress with the right skills
I’m in my 40s and currently work for a large corporation in Canada. I have two years’ experience in finance and over 20 years in application development …
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Profile yourself to find the career that suits you
I’ve been working for almost two years as an interpreter and translator. However, I would really like to change …
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Desperate for some direction
I have been working as a legal secretary for the past 6-7 months but this is definitely not the…