Welcome to Internship Week 2022!
This mini-website is to provide you with an overview of SIGC summer internship application details and all in-person and online activities to support your application.
This summer we will offer around 470 internship opportunities with over 140 Community Partners in Hong Kong and around the world. There will be non-local internships in Australia, Canada, Mainland China, New Zealand, Slovakia, South Korea and Taiwan. In addition, we will continue to offer the “Global Citizenship@Home” internships for students to gain cross-cultural skills and explore global issues without leaving Hong Kong. This year we will have four workshops on job seeking skills for your preparation of internship application. There are also two virtual events for you to chit-chat with Community Partners or former interns. If you need personalised advice, please come to our individual consultation sessions. Walk-ins are welcome.
Community Partners
Internship Topics/Posts
Placement Quota
* unless otherwise specified
A series of activities are available, both online and in-person, during Internship Week to assist you in preparing the application. There are workshops on job-seeking skills and individual consultation sessions to offer you advice on identifying your choices among the number of internship opportunities and get prepared for the application. You are also invited to join the Virtual Internship Expo and meet with our Community Partners online at Gather Town. Register now to reserve a seat!
This year, the Faculty has developed a virtual space on Gather Town platform where students can access the background information of Community Partners and internship descriptions.
Two virtual chit-chat sessions will be available for students to interact with Community Partners. Students are encouraged to join the chat to better understand the requirements, expectations and other additional information regarding the placements.
[For security reason, the virtual space is encrypted with password. Please refer to the Faculty’s email (Subject: “FOSS Internship Week 2022 (January 17-26)” sent from “socii@hku.hk”) for the Password]
Opening + Chit-chat with Community Partners
Session 1
Chit-chat with Community Partners
Session 2
Linking-in to Internship Opportunities
via Your Social Media Profile
By Ms Connie Tsui-Burchfield,
Career Coach & Founder,
Radix Consulting Ltd.
CV Writing Skills Workshop
By Dr Ken Yau,
Experiential Learning Team,
Faculty of Social Sciences
Career Development and Internship Workshop
By Dr Ken Yau,
Experiential Learning Team,
Faculty of Social Sciences
Interview Skills Workshop
By Ms Lancy Chui,
Senior Vice President,
ManpowerGroup Greater China
Meeting ID: 918 5845 5209
Password: 234515
Want to talk about the big life questions about career development and internships in the Friday afternoon of your first week of the semester? Come join us on Zoom! Dr. Marty Forth will host the discussion together with three recent graduates from Faculty of Social Sciences. Tony, Jeremy and Eric all were in the same internship in Vietnam in 2017 and then set off their different paths after graduation. They will chat with you about their journey we hope will give you some inspiration.
Facilitator:
Dr Marty W. Forth
Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Social Science
Dr. Forth has worked for 20+ years in Canada, the USA and Asia as a social worker, non-profit manager and community leader creating and teaching about community programmes for children, teens and family formation and maintenance. He currently resides in Hong Kong with his husband Patrick and their 10-year old son Grayson. Currently, Dr. Forth is an Assistant Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Hong Kong, and is teaching and conducting research on leadership, experiential learning, and social work.
Sharing by alumni:
Tony Ko
BSocSc (2017)
Jeremy Yip
BSocSc (2019)
Eric Tang
BSocSc (2020)
*Walk-in Welcome
Before looking for an internship, students should first figure out the SIGC requirements of their curriculum – whether they are required to fulfill SI or GC or both. Please review the SIGC requirements of your degree programme if you are not sure.
We understand there are many considerations while choosing an internship. There is no perfect internship to apply for but you can figure out which one aligns best with your interest, career goals, skills, language requirements and experience. And we encourage you to be curious and to venture out from your comfort zone. Here are some filters to assist you in making a wise choice –
Join the Virtual Internship Expo at Gather Town to see the internship topics with detailed job descriptions.
Placement-based internships offer students the off-campus learning opportunities to work locally and abroad as interns at various kinds of organisations, including NGOs, social enterprises, think-tanks, startups, business corporations and etc. for a variety of posts and topics ranging from education and communication to research and community services.
In this summer, we have non-local placement opportunities in Australia, Canada, Mainland China, New Zealand, Slovakia, South Korea and Taiwan.
We will continue offering the ‘Community-Engaged Research Internship’ this summer. Student Interns will be able to conduct a complete project impact assessment or policy need analysis with a local NGO under the supervision of an academic staff. Please see the project details under Local Internships.
GC@Home internship offers a cross-cultural context for students to understand the global issues in Hong Kong, which can also meet the Global Citizenship requirement.
The 6-credit Service Learning in China (SLC) programme offers intensive four-week (June 20 – July 15, 2022) learning opportunities for students working for a specific community-based/ research-based project in China. In this summer, there are three Community Partners, including Institute of Social Science Survey (中國社會科學調查中心), Intellisia Research Institute (海國圖智) and Peer Experience Exchange Rostrum (PEER毅恒挚友) offering six tailor-made projects in Beijing, Changsha and Guangzhou.
SLC provides flexibility allowing Social Sciences students to gain additional cross-border learning opportunity for another endorsed 6-credit course from exchange programme in configuring Global Citizenship requirement.
For non-Social Sciences students and Social Sciences students who have completed Global Citizenship requirement, they can take this 6-credit SLC as their free electives to enrich their portfolio of working experience in China.
Social Innovator offers both local and non-local opportunities for students to learn the entrepreneurial process and to create out-of-the-box solutions with first-hand experience working in innovative social enterprises, interacting with changemakers and understand how the system works for social enterprises.
IDEA Incubator is designed for students committed to address pressing social problems in new and smart ways, combating social challenges through developing an idea of their own. The programme aims to provide a platform for students to create and scale their innovative idea by emphasising three learning lenses: the social problem, the enterprising individual, and the requirements of the pathway to social innovation.
Student-teams will intern at a local social innovative enterprise for 8 weeks. They will receive first-hand exposure to the social problem and study the creative solution. Training and mentorship will be provided throughout the course. Each team will create a “smart idea” and to pitch their business proposal at the end of course. Outstanding ideas may be funded for prototyping beyond the course level.
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030. They address the global challenges we face, including poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice. For details of SDGs, please refer to the following designated website https://sdgs.un.org/goals.
Please click the icon for the list of community partners.
Internship opportunities are grouped under 5 categories based on the nature of job tasks and sectors. You can filter the placements by the below 5 categories on the Online Application System:
| Activity | Date |
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Application Period |
January 17, 2022 (6:00pm) – January 26, 2022 (12:00noon) |
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Announcement of 1st round results |
February 21, 2022 |
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Announcement of 2nd round results |
March 11, 2022 |
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Announcement of 3rd round results |
March 31, 2022 |
Before your application submission, please note the following important regulations about internship application:
Neurum
Across U-hub
Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants
Official China
Youth and Family Services Section, TWGHs
Social Innovation and Global Citizenship Internships are specially designed to encourage students to maximise their full potential by going beyond the confines of the campus, their academic discipline and geographical boundaries. Internships adopt a multidisciplinary and practice-oriented approach engaging students to expand social awareness through working with community partners. The internships deliverables are to enhance social development and promote social innovations. We are glad to show you some of the students’ work and its community impact, locally and internationally.
SIGC Summer Internship Photo Competition provides opportunities for student interns to share their learning experience. Here are the award-winning photos in 2020 and 2019.
The joy of harvest under COVID-19
Community Partner:
Rooftop Republic Urban Farming @Hong Kong
Even the rain was heavy on that day, our colleagues were still energetic to clean the beach! I was overwhelmed by their passion.
Community Partner:
KPMG China (SH) @Shanghai, China
A carefully planned workshop on elderly and softmeal turned into a semi-improvised event after the unexpected surge of COVID-19 cases. Us interns were overwhelmed by the last-minute adjustments and only had time for a photo after the successful workshop.
Community Partner:
Social Enterprise Business Centre, Hong Kong Council of Social Service @Hong Kong
Besides food waste, eggshell recycling is necessary but absent. Several barrels of eggshells are discarded every day. Apparently, we should consider innovative ways, such as eggshell painting, to upcycle eggshells.
Community Partner:
Ever Green Association @Hong Kong
Short video about migrants
GLoCal Vietnam 2017
GLocal Nepal 2019
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