The first Macao Integrated Tourism and Leisure Enterprises Vocational Skills Competition provided a platform for employees from the city’s six gaming concessionaires and sub-concessionaires to showcase their professionalism and to improve their occupational skills.

The six gaming operators had teams taking part in the event’s three contests, namely for table game dealer skills, housekeeping skills, and cooking skills.

In the table game dealer skills contest, participants were tested on chip management and bet handling as well as card dealing. The contest required not only personal endeavour but also a spirit of cooperation within each competing team.

For the housekeeping skills contest, each three-member team was given tasks – grouped under particular themes –related to hotel room arrangement and decoration. The teams had to complete the tasks within a specific amount of time.

Here are other examples of the tasks each three-member team in the housekeeping skills contest must complete as they work against the clock.

Further samples of the tasks each three-member team in the housekeeping skills contest had to complete as they laboured against a deadline.

Themes for the room decoration and arrangement tests – as well as what kinds of ornaments should be placed in the rooms – were decided by drawing lots while the contestants were on site.

Each five-member team taking part in the cooking skills contest was requested to prepare an appetiser, a main and a dessert, using a box of ingredients received at the start of the competition. Participants were required to display creativity in their work in order to impress a panel of judges.

Each five-member team in the cooking skills contest had to prepare an appetiser, a main and a dessert, using the ingredients provided by the organisers. Participants had to show their ingenuity in order to leave a lasting impression in the minds of the judges.

The Vocational Skills Competition organisers – including the Labour Affairs Bureau – see the event as a showcase for Macao’s ongoing efforts in training a greater number of skilled workers; promoting provision of vocational training within enterprises; and encouraging employees to enhance their skills and capacity for delivering services.