BOSSES yesterday said job-seekers referred to them by government schemes to help the unemployed were not prepared to adapt.
At a Labour Department forum, personnel managers said many interviewees were not 'mentally prepared' to change their working conditions to suit the vacancies.
Many were not confident in themselves though they were given the jobs, they said.
More than 84,000 people are unemployed although the Government says there are 60,000 vacancies. The department has introduced a job-match programme while an Employee Retraining Board is helping workers to acquire new skills.
Managers from more than 230 companies attended the forum, offering a total of 1,700 jobs.
Commissioner for Labour Stephen Ip Shu-kwan said many people needed to be retrained before entering other industries.
'Job-seekers [referred by the job-matching scheme] are not prepared to make an effort. They do not even understand the nature of the services industry,' human resources director of Giordano Limited, Christine Wong, said.