Retraining Courses - Service Details

All Hong Kong eligible employees (including new arrivals) aged 15 or above and with education attainment of sub-degree or below can enroll in retraining programmes, which are funded by ERB and delivered through over 50 training bodies.

To help our target group to secure employment, hold down their jobs, and in the longer term be able to gradually develop a career ladder in their jobs.

ERB believes in a total-service approach in delivering our services for employees. Such services include counseling, retraining courses, placement services and follow-up services.

A great variety of full-time, part-time and evening courses are being offered. They broadly fall into the following categories:

• Core Course on Job Search Skills
• Job-specific Skills Courses
• General Skills, Language and Computer Courses
• Tailor-made courses for employers
• Self-employment programmes

Besides, ERB also provides programmes specially designed for elderly, the disabled and new arrivals.

All full-time courses are free of charge. Retrainees attending full-time courses of more than one week and have achieved an attendance rate of 80% or more, are paid a retraining allowance. The rate of the allowance is $153.8 for each attending day. The maximum monthly allowance is $4,000.

Retrainees taking part-time or evening courses are required to pay a course fee amounting to 20% of the training costs. For unemployed or low-income persons with monthly income at $6,333 or less, they can apply to waive course fees subject to a commitment of achieving an 80% attendance rate.

Graduate trainees of full-time courses are offered employment assistance in job counselling and placement services upon completion of training. The placement officers of the training bodies where you have attended the course will provide job market information and refer suitable vacancies to trainees according to their experiences, job skills, aptitudes and job expectations and so forth.