Chevalier Group’s Commitment to Apprenticeship Programme For Over 30 years

Chevalier Group’s Commitment to Apprenticeship Programme For Over 30 years

Nurturing Well-Recognized New Talent For the Construction Industry

The Chevalier Group is dedicated to nurturing talents. By collaborating with various organizations with an aim of promoting recognized talent development for the Hong Kong construction industry, the Group contributes to the construction industry’s development in different aspects. Chevalier (Construction) Company Limited ("Chevalier (Construction)"), a group company of the Chevalier Group, is committed to this endeavor. Since the 1990s, over 450 apprentices have undertaken the Group’s and Chevalier (Construction)’s apprenticeship programme in a variety of fields including building construction, quantity surveying, building services, land surveying and the like.

Chevalier Group’s apprenticeship programme is well-recognized with hundreds of young people having benefitted from it with on-the-job training and employment opportunity in the construction industry. Ms. Kitty Li, Assistant Quantity Surveyor of Chevalier (Construction), has been recognized as the Top 10 Outstanding Apprentices in the "2021 Outstanding Apprentice Award Scheme" organized by the Vocational Training Council (VTC). Winners from Chevalier (Construction) of this award from VTC in recent years included Ms. Momo Li, Mr. Cheng Yuen Chiu and Mr. Bill Ng either as Top 10 or Top 30 outstanding apprentices.

To further promote the apprenticeship programme, Chevalier (Construction) organized the Apprenticeship Seminar (“Seminar”) on 3 August with Mr. H S Kuok, Chairman and Managing Director of the Group, joining as officiating guest. Others present at the Seminar included management representatives, current and past apprentices, “senior” apprentices, mentors and the four award-winning apprentices of the VTC’s Outstanding Apprentice Award. The Seminar aimed to provide an opportunity for the current apprentices to learn from the sharing of their predecessors while the management underlined the development highlights of the Group's apprenticeship programme.

The Seminar saw the attendance of over 80 participants comprising of management, mentors, “senior” apprentices, apprentices, among which some 20 colleagues stationed at construction sites joining via online platform. Award-winning outstanding apprentices, “senior” apprentices who have finished their apprenticeship training in recent years, as well as management-grade colleagues and mentors who were once apprentices were invited to share their experiences at the Seminar.

Mr. Kuok concluded that the Group attached high importance to the apprenticeship programme. Mr. Kuok went on to highlight that it is not uncommon to see top management who were once apprentices in the construction sector. At the Chevalier Group, he himself and some of the other management colleagues present at the Seminar were also once apprentices. He urged the apprentices of the Group to seize the opportunity to learn as a promising future is ahead.

Two videos of event highlights are available for viewing :

The “Chevalier Group” Episode

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The “Apprentices and Mentors” Episode

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Chevalier (Construction), a group company of the Chevalier Group, organized the Apprenticeship Seminar to underline the high importance attached to the apprenticeship programme. Over 80 participants joined the seminar together with colleagues who joined via online platform.

Mr. H S Kuok, Chairman and Managing Director of Chevalier Group, presented certificates of appreciation and souvenirs to the four Chevalier (Construction) colleagues who have been selected as outstanding apprentices by the VTC in recent years.

Top left: Ms. Momo Li, 2017 Outstanding Apprentices (Top 10)

Top Right: Mr. Bill Ng, 2018 Outstanding Apprentices (Top 30)

Bottom left: Mr. Cheng Yuen Chiu, 2019 Outstanding Apprentices (Top 10)

Bottom Right: Ms. Kitty Li, 2021 Outstanding Apprentices (Top 10)

Ms. Kitty Li (left), Assistant Quantity Surveyor of Chevalier (Construction), has been selected as the Top 10 Outstanding Apprentices in the "2021 Outstanding Apprentice Award Scheme" organized by the VTC. Her immediate mentor, Ms. Vicky Lam (right), Deputy Quantity Surveying Manager of Chevalier (Construction), is pleased to see this recognition.

Chevalier (Construction)'s Operating Director, Mr. H K Lau, noted that the bonding of mentors and apprentices is like family members.