

The Hottest Job in Sep 2026 + My Q3 Wrap Up 📊
Happy Holidays! 🎉 I hope everyone managed to take a proper break yesterday. Since it's the start of October, I wanted to summarise my Q3 and share the hottest job I've seen all quarter. 🔥 The hottest role in September? PA/EA/Receptionist and Secretary roles on the buy side (Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Asset Management) in Hong Kong. In September alone, I picked up at least 6–7 hiring mandates from my buy side clients ALL looking for PA/EA/Receptionist or Secretary. And the
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(Part 2) Dealing with a HK$8k Rent Increase 😱
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.
6 days ago2 min read


My landlord just raised my rent by HK$8,000. A month. 😳
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
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