I never imagined my previous LinkedIn article about my landlord would go viral Over 70k views and 100+ comments in just 2 days, from all over the world 🌍 Thank you for every comment. I've even received DMs from strangers sharing their own landlord/feng shui stories and POVs 🙏 Apologies if I'm going slightly off topic this week. I usually write about the HK job market (back to that next week, I promise), but this rent increase is so unbelievable that I need to write it down.

Yes, you read that right. Not HK$8,000 a year. HK$8,000 a month. (That's about USD 1,019 every single month.) My lease expires in 2 months, and he called early to deliver the news. The HK rental market is on fire right now. Everyone's renting instead of buying, so landlords hold all the cards. 🔥 But here's what I genuinely don't understand: If more and more people are being laid off… who's affording all these higher rents? How does the rental market keep going up? If it were

(Part 2 of 2 — and this one is bigger than one job.) A candidate of mine resigned recently. Director level, big firm. Naturally, I asked if I could work on her replacement headcount because her firm usually engages recruiters. She said it would be impossible. Since last year, her company had been flying people in from Malaysia and China. Not to visit. To secondment. To shadow the Hong Kong team. To learn exactly what they do. The company was running an experiment: "Can someon