Looking for leads, not love: Job seekers in China turn Tinder into a networking tool

Female college students look for jobs at the 2024 Women’s Campus job fair in Huaibei, East China’s Anhui province on March 12, 2024. CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images

‘Saturated’ market

Liang first thought of Tinder as a job-hunting tool after she saw a viral post on Xiaohongshu, China’s equivalent of Instagram, by a user who said she had successfully found a job by using a Chinese dating app.…

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