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Slow-track job: With the low salaries and lack of career mobility at work, many graduates are struggling to survive.

WITH starting salaries of less than RM2,000 and slow salary growth after a few years of employment, graduates lament the lack of career progress.

They say despite having a degree, their salaries are barely enough to cover all of their expenses given the cost of living.

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