The award ceremony for the "Young Workers of Various Industries" Workplace Video Competition, organized by the Yunjianan Branch of the Workforce Development Administration, the Ministry of Labor, was held on October 24, 2023 at Tainan Grand Hotel. This competition combined professional judging and online voting to promote diversity in different workplaces and highlight the importance of professionals. At the award ceremony, Bang-dong Liu, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Labor, attended the ceremony to present the awards. The Yunjianan Branch of the Workforce Development Administration, the Ministry of Labor, emphasized that the purpose of the program in subsidizing employment courses for colleges and universities is to improve the employment knowledge, skills, and attitudes of college students, helping them improve their career planning abilities and find employment after graduation.

【The work produced by the student team of the Department of Information Communication—Min-shuan Shian, Yu-lin Wang, Yu-tai Tsai, Wei-cheng Wang, and Tsai-tong Huang, led by Professor Jia-bin Gao and Assistant Professor Ze-wei Hsu of STUST, won third place in the "Young Workers of Various Industries" video competition.】

STUST participated in all 6 awards. Among them, the third-placed work is "My Job is Hug," which was created by a team from the Department of Information Communication led by Professor Jia-bin Gao and Assistant Professor Xu Zewei. The team members include Min-shuan Shian, Yu-lin Wang, Yu-tai Tsai, Wei-cheng Wang, , Wang, and Tsai-tong Huang. This work was not only highly praised by professional judges, but also received support from a broad audience in online voting.

There were five other works from STUST participating in this competition, and all of them won excellent work awards. "Cake Magician" of the Department of Business Management was created by a team led by Director Yi-shu Lin and Instructor Yu-zhi Chen. The team members included Yu-shuan Wu, Jie-yu Du, Jia-ni Chen. "Kang is a Beautiful Day" was created by Jue-yin Chen under the guidance of Associate Professor Ya-ling Tsai of the Department of Marketing and Distribution Management. Through her workplace experience in the beauty store—COSMED, Chen gained an in-depth understanding of how to provide services and consultation. The award-winning work of the Department of Leisure Business Management is "Life's First Navigation Lesson, "created by a team led by Assistant Professor Jia-chun Wang. The team members included Yong-ching Chang, Jie-ling Chao, Rui-han Chang, Shu-yi Liao, and Ji-lin Shie. The work "Growing Up with Babies" from the Department of Child Care was created by a team led by Professor Jia-bin Gao and Assistant Professor Ze-wei Xu from the Department of Information Communication. The team members included Yun-shuan Lin, Jia-ling Chen, Hai-chi Huang, Min-yu Huang, Yi-hui Wang, and Wan-yu Tsai. The "Sanxing Home Growth Journey" of the Department of Elderly Welfare Services was created by a team led by Chair Mei-zhu Chen. The team members included Shian-rong Wu, Li-chian Hsu, and Jun-lin Wei. By taking care of elderly seniors at home, they experienced unrelated parent-child care. The above five outstanding works were all produced by outstanding teams of teachers and students who participated in the employment study program and college student pre-recruitment program of the Ministry of Labor.

【STUST won six awards with its six excellent works in “Young Workers of Various Industries” video competition.】

Professor Jia-bin Gao from the Department of Early Childhood Care, STUST, said that the Department of Early Childhood Care has been implementing the employment program of the Ministry of Labor for more than 12 years. The accumulation of more practical experience allows the school's curriculum to be in line with enterprises, improving the two major systems of practical teaching and enterprise recruitment. Teacher Ze-wei Hsu, who is in charge of filming and post-production, said that during the filming process of "My Job is to Hug," he discovered that in addition to responding to the needs of young children, childcare center caregivers also have many established care processes to complete. They are busy almost all the time, observing the work style of the childcare workers from the perspective of a front-line bystander. Through interviews with relevant personnel, the audience can better understand this special profession of hugging children every day.

【STUST won third place in the "Young Workers of Various Industries" video competition poster.】