SINGAPORE - Looking to get back into full-time employment in February after leaving her marketing role with a local bank in 2018 to focus on family, Ms Genevieve Gay hardly expected to be still searching for a job after six months.
"For a lot of junior roles as well, even if you are willing to take a lower pay, companies are not willing to consider you. It can be demoralising when you cannot land a job or even an interview," she said on Tuesday . Another trainee Paul Lai, 54, left his job as a secondary school mathematics teacher in January after 17 years and has also endured a fruitless job search thus far.
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