Embrace the Bend in the Road of your Career

It’s not the end of the road if you are forced to leave the labour market for a time. Such a break, might just mean a bend in the road of your career.

Several years ago Eling Kwok was happily working as a carer for the elderly. Then her own mother suffered a debilitating stroke. Eling had no other option but to leave her job to care for her. She loved her mother but she was also terrified that the gap in her resume would hurt her future job prospects.

In 2019 Eling heard about Christian Action’s full-time ERB vocational training courses for the unemployed. As a long-time fan of Chinese medicine she promptly signed up for our Chinese Clinic Assistant training!

The course armed Eling with the theory and real-world exposure through visits to Chinese clinics and the Hong Kong Baptist University Dr. & Mrs. Hung Hin Shiu Museum of Chinese Medicine.

The great news is that Eling threw herself into her studies and finished the course with flying colors. And within a month of graduating we found her a part-time job in a clinic, which also enabled her to continue caring for her mother!

Christian Action has offered 150 training courses in the last two years. They range from Skincare and Make-up, Coffee-making – Barista skills to Massage and more. By leveraging our vast network of employers across virtually every industry we place 86% of our nearly 20,000 trainees in jobs that are specific to their industry!

At Christian Action we delight in helping the unemployed to not lose sight of the fact that they haven’t come to the end of the road - simply a bend!

“This course opened my eyes to a new career path and has helped me immensely. I would strongly endorse these training courses to anyone who is unemployed.”

- Eling Kwok, Foundations of Chinese Medicine graduate.