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‘No other way out’: Hong Kong’s fresh grads grapple with lower starting pay
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Starting salaries for Hong Kong’s fresh graduates have dropped for the first time since 2018.
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HONG KONG – Fresh graduate Shane Lau’s entry into the working world is not turning out quite as smooth as he hoped.
As he grew increasingly desperate after nine months of job hunting, he thought things were finally looking up when he landed a role as a sales executive at a local design firm and started work in early October.
