With a comfortable amount of savings to back her up, Lena Ng assumed that quitting her full-time job as a client account manager, despite not having another job lined up, was a risk worth taking to spend more time with her child. 

She took this leap of faith in December last year and began seriously job hunting in March, but to this day, she has yet to secure a new role. 

The 32-year-old told AsiaOne that over the past few months, she has applied to more than 300 jobs, and a few companies had even brought her through multiple rounds of interviews. 

While she believed she was a strong fit for several of these positions — with interviewers echoing the same sentiments — none of them resulted in a job offer. 

"It is very demoralising, for sure, and I feel very lost and anxious," she shared, adding that her predicament…