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nxtec@hkstp.org

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Your Potential Candidates
Eligibility & Application
Important Dates
Past Employers​

Your Potential Candidates

The candidates of the NxTEC Career Launcher have gone through a series of intensive and customized trainings covering technical skills, behavioral & job readiness as well as tech immersion into Science Park’s I&T ecosystem.

Here are some of the skillsets that the candidates have been equipped:

Technical Stream

Programming developer
Front-end Web Development
Data analysis
Data Engineering

Non-technical Stream

Online marketing
Digital Marketing
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Manual Quality Assurance Testing

Remarks:
1. The above summary only gives a general overview of candidates’ skillsets after completing the training programmes provided by Generation Hong Kong.
2. Employers are encouraged to arrange interviews and assessments to evaluate the suitability of candidates to the role/s of your companies.

Eligibility & Application

  1. The Applicant Company must be:
    • A current incubatee of Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTPC)
    • A current tenant of Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTPC)
  2. The Applicant Company must offer an internship in either full-time, part-time or mixed mode in the innovation and technology sector for at least 3 months.
  3. The intern to be employed by the Applicant Company must fulfill all of the following criteria:
    • A Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) resident with a valid Hong Kong Identity Card (HKID).
    • Aged between 18 and 30
    • Legally permitted to work in Hong Kong
    • A graduate or full-time student enrolled in sub-degree programme offered by local institutions; or non-UGC funded bachelor degree programme in either a local university/ institution, or jointly awarded by a local university together with a non-local university; or
    • A graduate of training programme offered by Generation Hong Kong.
    • Must not be the proprietor, partner or shareholder of the Applicant Company and/ or their relatives.
    • Must not be receiving other employment subsidies provided by the Government of HKSAR and/ or other local public funding programme.
  1. The Applicant Company must be an incubatee or tenant of Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTPC).
  2. The Applicant Company must offer a full-time job placement to the trainee in the innovation and technology sector for at least 12 months and offer a monthly salary of at least HK$11,000.
  3. The trainee to be employed by the Applicant Company must fulfill all of the following criteria:
    • A Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) resident with a valid Hong Kong Identity Card (HKID).
    • A graduate of training programmes offered by Generation Hong Kong.
    • Must not be the proprietor, partner or shareholder of the Applicant Company and/ or their relatives.
    • Must not be an employee of the Applicant Company within the past three months prior to the Application submission date.
    • Legally permitted to engage in full-time work in Hong Kong.
    • Must not be receiving other employment subsidies provided by the Government of HKSAR and/ or other local public funding programme.

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Important Dates

1. Call for Company Application

October 2022

2. Confirmation to Companies

October 2022

3. Company Sharing

November 2022

4. Candidate Screening

November - December 2022

5. Confirmation of Job Offers (Cohort I)

By mid December 2022

6. Workplace Attachment (Cohort I)


December 2022 – November 2023

1. Call for Company Application

By May 31, 2022

2. Confirmation to Companies

End of June 2022

3. NxTEC Career Launcher Information Day

Late July, 2022

4. Candidate Screening

July – August 2022

5. Confirmation of Job Offers (Cohort I)

By August 26, 2022

6. Workplace Attachment (Cohort I)

September 2022 – August 2023 (12 months)

Past Employers

The talents under the NxTEC Career Launcher shall be the graduates of training programmes offered by Generation Hong Kong. Here are the past employers that these graduates were successfully placed into.

Cherrypicks

Dentsu

eCloudvalley

GoBuddy Asia

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

iMbrace

KBQuest

Master Concept

Oursky

PHD Media Worldwide

Sasa

Sensestek

The Egg

Tranthink Technology Service Limited

WeMine

Yakoo

YouFind

Zenyum

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Front-end Web Development

Technical skills
  • Programming Fundamentals – Git & GitHub, SCRUM
  • Web Development Fundamentals – HTML, CSS, Bootstrap
  • JavaScript for Web Development and Testing
  • React
Behavioural Skills and Mindsets
  • Proactiveness
  • Communication
  • Teamwork
  • Orientation to Detail
  • Growth Mindset
  • Persistence
  • Personal Responsibility
  • Future Orientation

Data Engineering

Technical skills
  • Data Engineering Toolbox
  • Databases Design and Usage of Data Lake, Data Warehouse and Data Mart
  • Cloud Data Management Platform – Azure
  • Data Stream
  • Programming Languages – Python (Introduction and Intermediate), SQL (Introduction, Intermediate and SQL Server), Electives (Scala, Shell Scripts, PostgreSQL)
  • Developing Data Pipelines (Batch and Real-time Data) – Develop Data Pipeline, Data Ingestion, Data Manipulation, Cleaning Data, Schedule Data Engineering Workflows, Source Control
  • Data Analysis and Visualization – Introduction of Data Visualization and Data Storytelling, Effective Data Analysis by Applying Descriptive Statistics, Analyzing Data with PowerBI, Electives (Tableau, Introduction of Predictive Modelling and Machine Learning)
  • Testing – Testing Cycles, Test Approach and Test Case Design
  • Project Management Basics – Introduction to Agile Fundamentals, Best Practices and Documentation
  • Tools Utilized: Python, Python libraries (Pandas), Py Tests, NumPy, SQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Scala, Cloud tools: Azure, Git, GitHub, PowerBI, Tableau, Apache Airflow
Behavioural Skills and Mindsets
  • Proactiveness
  • Communication
  • Teamwork
  • Orientation to Detail
  • Growth Mindset
  • Persistence
  • Personal Responsibility
  • Future Orientation

Digital Marketing

Technical skills

  • Digitization – Market Environment and Objectives, Emergent technologies, Digital Marketing Management, Digital Marketing Plan, Digital Marketing Ecosystem and Evolution
  • Marketing actions – Marketing Research, Data Sampling, Survey Design, Data Visualization
  • Management Tools – Digital Transformation via Technology (IoT, AI, RPA)
  • Branding – Personal Brand and Branding and online reputation, LinkedIn Profile Creation, Branding Communication, Customer Lifetime Cycle Management, Customer Persona Development, Rebranding, Customer Journey Management, Customer Acquisition, Loyalty & O2O
  • Content Creation – Content Marketing strategy, Digital Storytelling, Virality and Vertical Content
  • Creative Tools – Graphic Editing Techniques, Website Creation, Content Creation Tools (Canva, Wix, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
  • Social Networks – Facebook Marketing, Instagram Marketing, other networks marketing
  • Social Media Plan – Social Media Analysis, Social Media Marketing Plan
  • SEO – Search Engines, Search Operators and Web Search Algorithms, SEO tools (Google search console, Brower extensions)
  • SEM – SEM and Google Ads, Google Display

Behavioural Skills and Mindsets

  • Growth Mindset
  • Persistence
  • Proactiveness
  • Teamwork

Manual Quality Assurance Testing

Technical skills
  • Project Management Basics – Waterfall Approach, Agile Approach, Project Management Tools, JIRA and ALM
  • Testing – Manual Testing, Functional Tests, Non-functional Tests, White Box, Black Box and Grey Box, Testing Documents (Test Strategy, Test Plan), Test Case Design (Development Approaches, Types, Steps, Handling Positive and Negative Validations, Handling All Ranges, Combining Factors, Identifying the Expected Result, Reviewing Test Cases), Testing Environment (Testing Products in the Right Environment, Working with the Developer Team, Designing Data for a Test Case), Test Execution (Executing Regression Tests, Handling Unexpected Test Results)
  • Understanding Business Requirements – Requirements Documents, Reading the Workflow Document, Translate Workflow Documents to a Readable Flow, Analyze Testing Requirements from the Workflow Document
  • Defect Management – Defect Life Cycle, Defect Management, Defect Report
  • Project Closure
Behavioural Skills and Mindsets
  • Proactiveness
  • Communication
  • Teamwork
  • Orientation to Detail
  • Growth Mindset
  • Persistence
  • Personal Responsibility
  • Future Orientation