{"id":533317,"date":"2026-03-13T08:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/533317\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:35:10","slug":"exclusive-hong-kong-job-openings-hit-6-year-low-in-69-of-sectors-amid-ais-ascent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/533317\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | Hong Kong job openings hit 6-year low in 69% of sectors amid AI\u2019s ascent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hong Kong\u2019s fresh graduates are facing increasingly challenging career prospects, with 69 per cent of job sectors recording their fewest vacancies in six years, a trend experts attribute to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and a sluggish economy.<\/p>\n

Figures from the Joint Institution Job Information System, a centralised online job information platform shared by the city\u2019s eight publicly funded universities, also showed that the number of job vacancies fell to a five-year low<\/a> of 30,798 last year, down by 51.5 per cent from 2021.<\/p>\n

In 2025, 23 out of 33 job sectors \u2013 69 per cent \u2013 recorded their lowest number of vacancies in six years.<\/p>\n

Industries with fewer job openings were those heavily associated with the use of artificial intelligence, such as information technology and programming, customer service, and administrative or clerical work.<\/p>\n

In the 2024-25 academic year, the eight publicly funded universities in Hong Kong produced 29,676 graduates in total, with nearly 75 per cent, or 22,255 students, earning undergraduate degrees.<\/p>\n

By comparison, during 2020-21, which coincided with the Covid-19 pandemic, the total number of graduates was slightly lower at 28,861, of whom 77 per cent or 22,333 students, were undergraduates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s fresh graduates are facing increasingly challenging career prospects, with 69 per cent of job sectors recording…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[27216,62,27212,276,45,49,48,16194,46,30405,208936,15674,208937,208935,44,30399,208938],"class_list":["post-533317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-acts-consulting","tag-ai","tag-alexa-chow-yee-ping","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-covid","tag-economy","tag-financial-secretary-paul-chan-mo-po","tag-hku-business-school","tag-hong-kong","tag-joint-institution-job-information-system","tag-michael-chau","tag-news","tag-scmp","tag-the-university-of-hong-kong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}