Recruitment days may be a growing trend for staff-hungry firms. The latest to line up potential employees in this way is SGS Hong Kong. SGS, which offers testing and certification services, held a recruitment day last week, following in the wake of The Hong Kong Jockey Club, whose recruitment day last month attracted long queues and a big pool of candidates.
SGS Hong Kong managing director Helmut Chik Kwun-shing says the aim of holding the recruitment day was to meet demands to match corporate growth.
'Being a strategic location for China, Hong Kong acts as a procurement centre for most overseas corporations. We serve our clients by ensuring the consumer products manufactured in China meet international safety and quality standards,' says Mr Chik.
A double-digit growth rate in the past 12 months has created 200 new openings at SGS Hong Kong. The jobs range from junior positions such as data-entry clerks to technical managers, who might require a PhD.
SGS previously recruited a small number of staff by traditional methods, but this was found to be a slow and inefficient process.
Assigning more than 60 staff for the recruitment day, the company had planned to screen and interview 3,000 candidates. The exercise met with a positive response, attracting interest from the media as well as from prospective candidates.