Future Academy Career and Life Development Service

Introduction

The Future Academy Career and Life Development Service is funded by the Home Affairs and Youth Affairs Bureau, the Youth Development Commission, and the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. The project collaborates with secondary schools to organise a variety of career and life development activities, enhancing the understanding of career planning and diverse pathways among students, parents, teachers, and alumni who have graduated or left school within the last six months. The aim is to enable youths to practice career and life development earlier, assist them in grasping the market trends and industry prospects in Hong Kong, and seize opportunities for national development, thereby making informed choices about their future education and employment.

HKCS has been funded since 2022, and the project will last for 3 years, providing services to partner schools. The second phase, launched in September 2025, collaborated with 16 secondary schools located in different regions across Hong Kong to offer all-rounded career and life development support services.

The service focuses on organising personal career stories and discovering youths' internal and external resources through the 3S (Life Story, Future Skills, Sustainable Development Goal) and 6C (Curiosity, Connection, Concern, Control, Confidence, Courage) elements, which drive young people to learn and enhance future skills. At the same time, by understanding the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), participants will gain clarity on global development trends, strengthen their career adaptability, and support their transition from school to the community and the workforce, moving toward their ideal career goals.

Services Objectives

To assist young people having a smooth school-community transition, making informed choices to adapt to changes, and realising their potential.

Service Target

Students, parents, teachers, and alumni who have graduated or left school within the last six months from the 16 collaborating schools.

Service Content

Higher Education Guidance:

Through various visits and dialogues, students will learn about different pathways to further education, clarify their understanding of the relationship between subject selection and future career development, and assist them in making informed choices.

Employment Guidance:

Through field visits and experiential activities, students will gain deeper insights into different professions, understand their preferences, and stimulate their motivation and curiosity for career development.

Awareness of Multi-Pathways:

By sharing various career stories, global development trends, and talent demands, students will contemplate different possibilities for their careers.

Personal Skill Development:

Through activities focused on self-awareness, future skills training, interview skills, and career adaptability training, students will broaden their horizons and enhance their ability to face future career development challenges, understand their characteristics, and explore career development directions based on their traits and aspirations.

Support for Specific Student Groups:

For students with special educational needs and those at risk of dropping out due to career confusion, systematic group training activities tailored to their characteristics will be provided to enhance their career development motivation and goal-setting, including: "Life Future"；Future Leaders; "CLD Club"；and "Possibilities Lab".

Support for Teachers and Parents:

To create a supportive and positive environment for students, various career development support activities will be offered, including: workshops on applying career development counseling tools, teacher workplace explorations, parent experiential activities, and parent workplace explorations.

Individual Study and Career Support Service for Secondary School Students:

Collaborating with schools to establish a follow-up mechanism that provides individual follow-up and resource connections from assessment and support to community integration, offering personalized career development support for at-risk school drop-out students.