The Dream Factory of China

Source :Shenzhen Daily

Shenzhen is recruiting career tutors to provide internship, recommendation and career development services to Hong Kong and Macao youths as the Shenzhen Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau launched the GBA Career Tutor Plan on Wednesday.

The tutor plan is part of the measures recently introduced by the bureau to further boost Hong Kong and Macao youths’ desire to work or start companies in Shenzhen.

Cai Yuxing, director of the bureau’s employment division, said that the current 15 subsidy measures targeting Hong Kong and Macao youths’ employment and entrepreneurship were collected in one document. The combination enables the individuals or companies in need quickly figure out the subsidies they are qualified to apply for.

“I’ve been working in Shenzhen since 2021. I received the 18-month 1,000-yuan (US$144.18) monthly living subsidy from the government,” said Zhou Pan, a Hong Kong youth living in Qianhai. “Shenzhen is an inclusive city and many Hong Kong youths are eager to pursue a career here.”

Alex Chau, an auditing services partner of EY Hua Ming LLP’s Shenzhen unit, has been working and living in Shenzhen and other mainland cities for over 10 years. He was hired by Luohu on March 16 as one of the first batch of career tutors to pilot the career tutor plan.

“A tutor will help Hong Kong youths assimilate to life in Shenzhen,” Chau said. “The lifestyle in Shenzhen is different from that in Hong Kong and Macao. A career tutor can share his or her life experience covering things like paying rent and bills, and places to hang out.”

According to the recruitment plans, talents from Hong Kong or Macao with over three years’ working or living experiences in the nine mainland cities of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area are eligible to apply as tutors. The applications can be made via emailing ggjy-zhjb @hrss.sz.gov.cn before June 11.

“We have established a platform pooling the qualified tutors’ information where districts could search for the tutors’ services according to their demands,” Cai said.

In addition, according to the measures, the municipal and district-level human resources authorities in Shenzhen will introduce Hong Kong and Macao institutions to public employment service and higher learning institutions, social organizations and entrepreneurship hubs, purchasing their services in employment and entrepreneurship.