Secondary-school teachers lack real-world experience, leaving careers guidance out of touch

Many Hong Kong parents and students report that secondary-school teachers generally lack hands-on work experience 'in the real world', having gone straight from graduation into teaching without ever being tested by the commercial world, yet they are tasked with students' careers guidance — so the career advice they give is badly out of touch with the actual workplace. Those interviewed say this is not an isolated exception but a structural problem across the whole education system, leaving students who aspire to all kinds of careers without guidance grounded in real work experience.

This 'blind leading the blind' careers system leaves students utterly unprepared when they enter the workforce, and the market has no systematic mentor-matching platform staffed mainly by industry practitioners to fill the gap left by schools' careers guidance.