Trina Lau spent nearly three months looking for work after she was laid off from an e-commerce firm in Hong Kong in December.
It was the 23-year-old’s first job after graduating with a communications degree last year. The position only lasted for six months.
She sent out more than 50 job applications but only received calls for interviews for six of them.
Lau conceded that it was slow going because the economy was not picking up as quickly as she would have liked.
But now, she said, she had the…
‘I can’t get a job and AI is to blame’: a young person’s lament
