Education | UM organizes largest career fair in its history

The University of Macau (UM) is holding a Careers and Internships Fair until Friday. The fair is considered the first of its kind on the new campus and the largest in its history.
According to a press release issued by UM, the event includes more than 100 companies, offering over 5,000 jobs in more than 20 industries to over 1,300 graduating UM students.
The university conducted an employment and further studies survey among graduates from bachelor’s degrees for the 2013/2014 academic year. The study indicates that the three most popular industries for UM graduates are education, entertainment and gaming, and hospitality, with the employment rate reaching 92 per cent and the median monthly income being MOP 14,000. Twenty percent of last year’s UM graduates elected to pursue further studies.
Elvo Sou, head of the Student Counselling and Development Section of the Student Affairs Office and organizer of the fair, said that this year’s event aims to teach students about how to make career choices.  It provides an opportunity for students to showcase their talent. He added that UM also plans to launch a series of assistance programs to help students start their own businesses.

Students translate Portuguese short stories

University of Macau students have translated 14 short stories written by Isabel Mateus from Portuguese into Chinese. The translations were made by students taking part in the Master of Translation course within UM’s Portuguese Department.
The short stories recount childhood games and toys that are typical of Portuguese rural villages. The local students picked the stories to be translated (which are excerpts from an Isabel Mateus book), bearing in mind their memories as children and teenagers.
“It was very relevant for me to know more about the way children played in China, and which were the most popular hand-made toys during the time of the grandparents of the students who translated the short stories,” Isabel Mateus told the Lusa news agency.  The author acknowledged that “the reality of the Chinese students resembles the livelihood of the figures depicted in the stories a lot and also mine.”