HR & Education
HR professionals to expect 10% salary raise
Startups generate demand for HR jobs as their businesses scale.
HR professionals to expect 10% salary raise
Startups generate demand for HR jobs as their businesses scale.
9 in 10 employees say learning on their own is key to remain competitive
Half of them have taken a curriculum course in the past year.
IT banking professionals to expect 20% pay rise
Programming skills remain highly sought after across industries.
Hong Kong job market growth remains bullish
The IT sector generated the biggest demand this year.
Six in 10 employees unlikely to seek advice for career goals
Younger people are more likely to seek professional advice.
Why some Hong Kong employers ditch flexible work policies
33% of employers worry that employees don't work hard as much.
2 in 3 employees unhappy with work benefits
Employers aren't aware of poor employee understanding of benefits programme.
Financial services firms struggle to keep up with digitisation
52% say their finance teams can't easily adapt to newly implemented technologies.
More active workforce relaxes labour market
But their talents are being strained by changing business models.
AI is taking the tedium out of recruitment
Will 'bots be taking over the world of headhunting?
Average wage rate hikes by 3.8%
Almost 7 in 10 companies implemented hikes.
Government mulls over reviewing labour shortage
It will probe local productivity.
This startup aims to help parents search, filter and compare education providers and children services in Hong Kong
It has created more than 6,000 listings, and they aim to launch a series A round of funding next year.
With US$8m raised to-date, Snapask expands to Japan, Thailand and Korea
The e-learning and virtual tutorial platform is now a haven to more than 350,000 Asian students.
Total employment increases by 7,700 to 3.8m
Unemployment rate remains unchanged at 3.1%.
Nine in 10 employers worry about rising medical costs
One in two companies already adopted cost-containment measures.
Almost 3 in 10 companies keen to offer flexible benefits to employees
They are responding to diverse workforce needs and values.