STAGE 1 - Training Sessions

21 March, Chamber Theatre

Two training sessions will be held on 21 March and 28 March to equip students with fundamental skills such as CV writing, impressive presentation, and building business skills.

Experienced young executives and professional career coaches will also provide up-to-date training and share the latest career trends with participants.

STAGE 2 - Mentoring Session

28 March - May

During this stage, two mentors will be assigned to each group of 5-6 students. The mentors will be members of the Young Executives Club with diverse backgrounds and professions.

Mentors will share their career stories and give advice on career development and will help the students prepare for the pitching competition in Stage 4.

A mentor-mentee day will be held on 28 March to facilitate communications and mutual understanding between both sides.

Students and their assigned mentors are required to meet at least three times during the programme, either in person or via ZOOM.

STAGE 3 - Company Visit & Internship

April - Early May

Company visits

Students have the opportunity to visit more than 1 sponsor company in March to learn more about the company background, mission, business operations and upcoming plans which can help them prepare for the pitching competition in stage four.

As the quota for each company is limited, students may have to rank their choices for the visits. The Chamber and sponsor companies have the final decision on the visit quota and arrangement.

Internship

Students have to submit CV to participating companies in applying internship. As number of vacancy is limited, not all student participants could get the internship opportunity. Duration of internship and benefits varies among sponsors. More details to be announced.

STAGE 4 - Pitching Competition

30 May, Chamber Theatre

The final stage of the programme is a 2-round pitching competition. If you can beat other contestants in the first round, you will receive HKD $8,000 and enter the final to compete for an additional HKD $10,000.

First Round:
Each candidate can only choose 1 company track to participate, and the company should be the one that have been visited in stage 2.

The first round pitching sessions will be held at sponsor companies. A panel of judges composed of company representatives will conduct group interview with candidates.

Each candidate will give a two-minute presentation and answer questions from the panel. There will be 1 winner from each track, and totally 6 candidates can enter the final.

*Picking company is also strategic as number of participants for each track may not be the same.

Final Round
6 winners will be doing a group interview by a judging panel formed by the Chamber and YEC leadership.

A final champion will be selected and awarded HKD$10,000, and one day job shadowing with a business leader.
*Details of the competition will be announced.