The Institute for Tourism Studies Career Day 2012 was held on 13 April at Taipa Campus. The exhibition aimed to provide graduating students more information on the employment trends in the tourism and service industries, thus, increasing their chance of success in job hunt. Eighteen organisations with more than 1,000 job vacancies from the tourism and service industries joined the exhibition. These included DFS Cotai Limitada, Four Seasons Hotel Macao, Galaxy Entertainment Group, Grand Hyatt Macau, Hotel Lisboa Complex, L'Arc Macau, LT Macau Limited, Macao Research Center, Melco Crown Entertainment, MGM MACAU, MSS Recruitment Limited, New Yaohan, Sands China Limited, Sheraton Macao Hotel Cotai Central, Shun Tak Holdings (Macau) Limited, Sofitel Macau at Ponte 16, Wing On Holidays (Macau) Limited and Wynn Macau. Representatives from the organisations provided students and alumni information about job openings in their companies and distributed application forms to those who were interested, on site interviews were also arranged. The graduates-to-be and alumni were enthusiastic about the exhibition. Questions regarding employment trends and employers' expectation were raised and discussed in the fair. The employment rate of IFT graduates is always satisfactory. A graduates' employment survey was conducted targeting the bachelor as well as diploma and certificate programme graduates of 2009/10. According to the results of the survey, 83.5.% were currently employed, 5.3% graduates choose to further their study, 68% out of the employed graduates had placements in the tourism and service sector and the average salary was MOP11,600.00 The Career Day 2012 aimed to be the platform for communication between students and employers. It allowed the graduating students to have a better view of the job market and maximised the chance of success in their career path.
