Career comeback: How these Malaysians overcame setbacks en route to success

Perseverance and resilience in the job hunt pays dividends. — Unsplash

“We all came back from our new year leave full of motivation and aspiration for 2024. However, by the end of the day, some people got invitations for a one-on-one with human resources personnel.

“The next day, we found out that whoever got an invite was getting retrenched,” says a former user growth analyst with a local ecommerce platform who wanted to be known as just Bailey.