JCI Dragon is a chapter of the Junior Chamber International Hong Kong. It gathers a pool of dynamic and talented professionals, aiming to contribute to the local community. As every year, they are organizing an entrepreneurial challenge for high school students during summer time.
Josephine, representing Centre O, had the opportunity to participate to the event this year. By holding a talk on ‘How to get the best people to work for you?’ and being a judge for the competition, she really enjoyed sharing her entrepreneurial experience to guide these young future entrepreneurs to understand better the reality of the business world. They had to create an innovative startup of their choice, in the industry they wish. It was very interesting to see them evolving among the different steps of the competition, improving their presentation skills and materials. It was a great opportunity for Centre O to support Hong Kong young generation and the talents of tomorrow!
The final took place on Saturday, August 20th, and it was quite an experience to be part of it, as an expat. It is the typical kind of Cantonese official event. I like to call it the ‘Cantonese Pictures Mania’! Indeed, since it is benefiting the local young generation, many governmental and official persons related to education were present. Each and every one of them held a short talk to show their gratitude and support to organise this kind of events for high school students. But in the end, in my opinion, it was a lot more about political communication. They were here for an hour, and then left before the students even presented their projects. They are considered as really busy people and they are supposed to behave this way. They all had to go on stage and take individual pictures, followed by pictures with the two main organizers, to finish by a group pictures gathering all these official persons and judges for the event. It was very impressive to me how everything was based on ephemeral and pretended participation from this official people. But it is their role in Hong Kong, to be considered by the government and be attributed subsidies in education. Thus, it is very important and relevant to have this over-communication to obtain governmental contribution, which is great for developing future talented generation of Hong Kong!