About GraduAction

GraduAction is a one-stop hub of career services and resources for graduating students and new graduates.

No matter what you embark on after graduation, we are here to support you to secure a personally rewarding career. GraduAction offers tailored career support services and resources to help you prepare and start your career. For details, please refer to the GraduAction website.

About Job Secret Decoder

You are cordially invited to join us for the coming session of Job Secret Decoder, a series of regular sharing sessions by young HKU alumni or industry experts to provide first-hand information and practical tips on how to start your career in a specific field.

A Translator, Editor and Curator: How to Make Yourself Relevant to Any Industry?

Do you want to find your own career niche? Do you want to know how could you make yourself relevant to any industry? Join the sharing session with Lesley Cheung on 18 November 2022 to get these first-hand career information and practical tips.


As part of the Job Secret Decoder series, we have invited Lesley Cheung from our full-time Class of 2016 to share about her career journey as a translator, editor and curator who involved in projects of contemporary culture, interdisciplinary engagement and design for impact, and being a Founder & Communications Director of Locus Creative, specialising in creative direction, communications and project management now. This is an interactive Zoom session, you are welcome to ask questions after listening to Lesley's sharing. No matter what your background is, join us to hear from Lesley:

• How to make yourself relevant to any industry?
• Find your niche
• Useful resources to start a career in arts and culture

Date: 18 November 2022 (Friday)
Time: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Format: via Zoom
Language: English

Target: HKU new graduates and current students are welcome to join.



Speaker:
Lesley Cheung (BA 2016) in English Studies and Comparative Literature

Ms. Lesley Cheung, who graduated from HKU in 2016, is an experienced translator, editor and curator involved in projects of contemporary culture, interdisciplinary engagement and design for impact. She has worked with M+, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Asia Society and HART. Her writings have been published on SCMP, Ming Pao, Via North Point and A City Made By People magazine. She also contributed to the first citizen-validated book curation to be adopted in public libraries and developed visuals for an award-winning legal tech. In 2020, Lesley established Locus Creative, specialising in creative direction, communications and project management.