Joining HKATC
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 14
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From: Hong Kong
The job itself is not bad but the management is extremely poor. Moreover, if you join now, you will be standing behind 40+ SATCO that have joined ahead of you. You will have to wait for 3 to 4 years before you will be able to start your training as a controller. If you are contended with surviving doing nothing but ATFSO's work for the first few years on a meager pay, just go ahead and sign up for the job. Some people would like to convince you into believing that you are joining a profession. Years of mis-management has turn this into a piece of joke.
Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 4
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From: Hong Kong
Hong Kong ATC
There are winners and losers in every profession, the winners move on, the losers stay behind and blame their lack of aptitude/efforts on everyone else but themselves. Check through this site and you will see plenty of one sided opinion when nothing management does is ever right and are all targetted to give them a hard time. Where I work I sit next to some very capable people who have a balanced view of the company we work for and some who have nothing but grudges. Look at the big picture, speak to and ask questions from real people and evaluate yourself.
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 49
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From: Near the MTR
a balanced view of the company we work for
How long will it take them to see what is happening in other ATC around the world?
Small Potato- I think you would be very frustrated with the career here in HK - there is no career. You will be treated like
and get paid less and less. Nobody in Goverment thinks you are worth anything until you up.
Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 4
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From: Kowloon
Small Potato- I think you would be very frustrated with the career here in HK - there is no career.
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 14
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From: Hong Kong
Just a little story
Once upon a time, a so call general manager thought it was a good idea to have more females in the system. Lo and behold, more than half of the staffs here now wear skirts( none of them being Scottish though). Then came the biggest CAD scientific discovery of the century: female can get PREGNANT.
In order to stamp the loss of working hours due to women on maternity leave, our beloved brother 4 (a.k.a valeriey) gave out orders to hire more males on the ongoing recruitment exercise.
So if you are a female, I congratulate you for getting an offer to be a SATCO. However, if you are a male, your offer is probably tainted as more eligible females are turned away by our affirmative action committee in order to fulfill the wish of brother 4. You will have a hard time proving yourself otherwise in the years ahead.
N.B. the fictional characters above are not reflection of their real life counterparts. Any resemblance is deeply regretted.
In order to stamp the loss of working hours due to women on maternity leave, our beloved brother 4 (a.k.a valeriey) gave out orders to hire more males on the ongoing recruitment exercise.
So if you are a female, I congratulate you for getting an offer to be a SATCO. However, if you are a male, your offer is probably tainted as more eligible females are turned away by our affirmative action committee in order to fulfill the wish of brother 4. You will have a hard time proving yourself otherwise in the years ahead.
N.B. the fictional characters above are not reflection of their real life counterparts. Any resemblance is deeply regretted.
Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 15
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From: hkong
HK ATC needs you
With the gulf states serco controllers being awarded a 70%...yes70% increase there will be many extra vacancies in the system very very soon and what with all the planned expansion you could expect rapid promotion very quickly.
But...it will come at a price....if you know what I mean.
Anyway good luck with your decision.....almost finnished my contract and looking forward to cleaner sand filled air soon.
Snake....
But...it will come at a price....if you know what I mean.
Anyway good luck with your decision.....almost finnished my contract and looking forward to cleaner sand filled air soon.
Snake....
Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 1
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From: Peak
This person . Keep telling us our course will open very soon, tell us rubbish.
Always pretend to be friendly. My colleagues now think I'm his
Promotion? If true then this dept is
Is there a better person for the post?
. Keep telling us our course will open very soon, tell us rubbish.Always pretend to be friendly. My colleagues now think I'm his
Promotion? If true then this dept is
Is there a better person for the post?
