Even a master’s degree from a top Hong Kong university and a string of impressive internships have not been enough to help Jethro Chen land a decent graduate job.
The final-year marketing student sent out dozens of applications to Chinese internet and consumer goods companies last year, but got nothing back except a folder full of polite rejection emails.
With his attempts to land a marketing internship in Hong Kong also ending in failure, Chen has been forced to push back his graduation from…