Employees Retraining Board

Specially Designed to meet the Needs of Industries, Corporate and Household Employers     Totally FREE OF CHARGE

The ERB's Manpower Development Scheme (MDS) is featured by its placement-tied and employment-oriented approach in the provision of training and employment assistance. As such, the participation of employers and their readiness to recruit suitable graduate trainees are crucial to the success of the MDS. To achieve this, ERB has always been in close communication with employers of different industries and to provide them with various services to meet their recruitment, manpower training and development needs.

1. Employees Referral Service

Appointed training bodies of ERB offer all graduate trainees of placement-tied courses with the placement follow-up services for at least 3 months. Employers wishing to recruit graduate trainees of ERB courses can directly contact the placement service units of training bodies, to recruit suitable trainees for meeting their manpower needs.

The ERB has also established a computer networking system to store graduates trainees' data as well as vacancy information, in order to facilitate job matching and job referrals. Employers who wish to register their vacancies (general vacancies) and recruit ERB graduates can simply complete the Vacancy Registration Form and return it to the ERB or the selected training bodies by fax. Placement officers of the training bodies will refer suitable candidate basing on the job requirements, and the graduate trainees' working experience and skills. To enhance the efficiency of employees referral service, ERB's computer networking system is also linked up with that of the Job Centres of the Labour Department so that job vacancies information is communicated to each other in a speedy manner.

2. Industry Service Programme - Promoting Industries & Enhancing Employment

In order to facilitate employers of different industries to recruit suitable employees in large quantity, ERB runs an "Industry Service Programme" to finance its training bodies to organize district-based recruitment and industry promotion activities for employers in order to exhibit job opportunities and prospects in the industries for job seekers including ERB graduates and to promote ERB training courses to the public. The program serves as a platform for the ERB to provide value-added services for employers and its trainees.

Please refer to Chinese version for the industry overview and the ERB training courses on offer.

3. Tailor-made Programme-One-stop Recruitment, Training & Follow-up Service

ERB is offering tailor-made programme to employers or groups of employers who have 12 or more similar job vacancies requiring special skills that cannot be met by the ERB's full-time placement-tied courses. This includes free one-stop services from recruitment, pre-employment training tailored to the employer's requirements, promotion subsidy to new employers, to post-employment follow up. This programme will help resolve employers' recruitment problems while securing job opportunities for our trainees through pre-employment training.

Employers are welcome to participate in course design and selecting trainees to ensure the quality of job matching.

4. "Smart Living" - referral platform for domestic services

ERB has set up the "Smart Living" platform (The former "The Integrated Scheme for Local Domestic Helpers"), to provide free referral services for local "Smart Helpers" (formerly called "Domestic Helpers") providing home, health (healthcare massage) and care services for domestic employers.

5. ERB Manpower Developer Award Scheme

ERB launches the "ERB Manpower Developer Award Scheme" to recognize organizations which have demonstrated outstanding achievement and commitment in manpower development as Manpower Developer (MD). The successful accreditation can enhance corporate image and staff loyalty as well as attract talent.

Enquiries

Interested employers please call the ERB hotline at 182 182 for more details.