香城職涯 Career Saucing – Details, episodes & analysis

This episode features Phoebe, who is a recent Design (Ceramics) MA graduate at Central Saint Martins. Prior to this, Phoebe worked as a management consultant in Hong Kong for over two years. Phoebe explains the process of making ceramics, how she managed to keep this as a hobby despite her intense working hours in the finance industry and her aspirations.

Instagram: @phoebeho.ceramics

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This episode features Belinda, who is currently a freelance photographer based in London. Belinda explains her decision to quit banking and pursue a completely different lifestyle. Belinda also shares the different components of being a photographer (she only spends 1% of her time actually holding a camera) and her thoughts on the “starving artist” stereotype in Hong Kong.

Instagram: @_bjiao__

Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/BelindaJiao

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#Johntsang #Civilservant #Government #Purpose

Educated with nuclear engineering and architecture, ended up being a teacher for some years. Between principal of an international school and civil servant, he picked the later when he decided to come Asia in his early 30s, not certain with what lies ahead. Planning gets more difficult in today's world, and, our very well respected and admired, John stayed open to go with the flow all these years, and even after retiring from the government. He talked about his mentality in considering a commitment now and then, some of the most critical and rewarding posting during his decades serving at the government, and the applicability of intrapreneurship spirit in largely hierarchical organization. Small work in the great work. Working with the youth, around technology, disrupting industries attracted him since stepping down from the public service. 

Connect with John: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnctsang/

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#CEO #Insurance #Insurtech #Leadingwithcompassion

“You should be a teacher like many of them (1995)”, “You shouldn’t take up the CEO role at such crisis time (2012)” – two of the many questions that challenged Winnie before she arrived at where she is today. Being perceived with a relatively soft characteristic since young, Winnie turned it into an advantage in this business world. She reflected on how her journey started with the very reputable Swire MT program and how that allowed her to uncover the most “misunderstood” industry. She further shared how her always-on learning appetite led her to concurrently heading a 60-year ago B2B insurance giant and 1-year old B2C insurtech, also how technology is empowering and democratizing the traditional insurance industry to diversify the business format and reach for the next generation to get involved. 

Connect with Winnie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/winnie-wong-cs/

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#Dean #Education #Professor #Technologytransfer

Benjamin has not pictured himself to be surrounded by students at campuses in the 35-years to come when he first stepped into college in 1986. It took place all because he found interest and value in running transnational education programmes for our system. Decades in, he has developed an in-depth view on what makes higher and further education valuable, the career transition and evolution of being an academia, the importance of research speed and network, also the now one-entry multiple-exit plans available for PhD graduates in a world where technology transfer became a core mission of schools and built a new platform for professors to excel, and what he might be doing in an unlived life. 

Connect with Benjamin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-tak-yuen-chan-b8886628/

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#CEO #Virtualbank #Financialinclusion #Technologydisruption

Banking Service without a Bank. How is that possible? Innovation is all about disruption. Being part of the "Starting Seven", Tat was there for this venture when Fintech and Virtual Bank were not even a commonly perceived description. Alongside WeLab Bank, as one of the first licensed virtual banks, Tat envisions to help those who are underserved by existing banking services, which favor high-net wealth individuals, to achieve MSG (Manage, Save, Grow). Technology allows them to scale up serving a million for financial inclusion just the same as serving one. A mix of computer science education, the IT and risk management experience with giant banks, addiction to challenges posted by startup are Tat's proud fundamentals for the past 8-years, building a new service from scratch. Hiring based on culture fit is how he plans to travel further with this journey creating an ideal world of intelligent banking. 

Connect with Tat: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tat-lee

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#CEO #GrowthtoRevenue #Carousell #Paypal

Having spent most career in top American Fortune companies, William made a shift to a promising Asian startup where most employees weren't even born when he graduated from high school. The difference and the energy from the youth excited William. For career decision at his stage, besides prioritizing purpose, he envisions to deploy his skills at scaling up, helping a company to transition from growth to revenue mode. He shared with us how Hong Kong as an economy is always a "middle child" in the eyes of global corporates, and how HKers like himself are hustling to earn more love by proving the capability of this city to their HQs. William also gave us examples of how companies at different levels are expecting talents with "entrepreneur" and "intrapreneur" mindsets. 

Connected with William: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-ip-7b12841/

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#NGO #Foundation #Trisector #Lifelonglearner

An internship journey to India during school time and the book "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman has broadened horizons and pretty much shaped Gary's career aspiration. He is an untiring learner heading for his fourth program in Sociology, having attained degrees in Language, Law and Diplomatic Studies respectively. He spoke about his rationale of continuous learning, driven by his attitude of "learn how to learn" and "know what to learn". He is also a versatile slasher with a core job and roles in multiple community units, envisioning to be a tri-sector leader inspired by Dominic Barton of McKinsey since early days. In his view, he further addressed how he would develop his career if he were again a fresh school graduate of today, settling into a (post) pandemic world where trends became difficult to catch and international relations became more tense than ever.

Connected with Gary: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garywongchihim/

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#CEO #Tech #Inclusion #Microsoft

25+ years serving in one single company is something uneasy to picture. Cally is a happy example. She walked us through how her curiosity on new things attracted her to be an early cohort Computer Science student some years ago, and contradictorily a super long tenure employee with Hewlett-Packard (HP), despite first trying to resign a year after joining the firm. "Talent comes with Passion", "TSM - Tech/ Skills/ Mindset", "Purpose-driven", "Start-up in a MNC", are some other key messages Cally highlighted in her career journey. She also zoomed out to talk about, in her horizons, the democratization of technology on different sectors, and how HK can catch up with the long-losing crown of being a Tech hub via GBA development plan, with the empowerment from tech firms like Microsoft. 

Connect with Cally: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cally-chan-8a5b5731/

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#Government #PPP #Freelancer #Connector

Dialogue with a “Good 100” global citizen. With all pride, Rachel was hired as an Administrative Officer (AO), the role that most of our nowadays city leaders started with, at the government in 1989. Unlike many civil servants who serve the job for lifetime, Rachel left the system in early 2000s to become a freelance Consultant and NGO leader, hoping to push forward the private-public-partnership (PPP) agenda for the city. She guided us through her early day AO journey, her biggest takeaways and how she will re-do the career choice if she were fresh again. She also spoke how she survived through the gig economy and examples of PPP model and formula she managed to replicate to government organizations through private sector success case study the past years. 

Connect with Rachel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-chan-5256651/

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