The Institute For Tourism Studies Career Day 2010 was held on 15 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 hunting. Organisations from different sectors were invited to the exhibition and twelve career talks were delivered. Seventeen organisations with more than 2,000 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, Holiday Inn Macau, L’Arc New World Hotel Macau, Lisboa Hotels Complex, macauHR, Mandarin Oriental Macau, Melco PBL Entertainment, MGM Grand Macau, Micro China Marketing & Consultant Co. Ltd., Pizza Hut, Starbucks Coffee, The Venetian-Macao-Resort-Hotel, The Westin Resort Macau 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, especially in attending the career talks. Questions regarding employment trends and employers’ expectation were raised and discussed in the talks. The employment rate of IFT graduates is always satisfactory. In April 2009, a graduates’ employment survey, targeting the Bachelor and Diploma and Certificate programme graduates of 2007/08, were launched. According to the results of the survey, 95.7% got employment and 84% got placements in the tourism and service sector. The Career Day 2010 aimed to be the platform of 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.
