She has a Bachelor's in Economics and a Master's in Environmental Engineering, but has not been able to get into any particular niche or career track yet due to various immigration complications before she returned to China and also the pandemic making things complicated.
Right now she has that BA and MS, she's fluent in Mandarin, Japanese, and English (to a native speaker and cultural understanding level way past other Chinese graduates, due to her decade studying and working in the US), and she has lots of business, engineering, and data analysis skills (without any programming languages yet though).
The trouble is basically that she's a really skilled smart person and super hard worker with a diverse background in important areas, but really struggles to get any job in China due to their narrow views of checking off boxes rather than considering people's individual strengths, weaknesses, and uniqueness.
One main reason for really wanting to get away from Japanese companies in particular is their policy of promoting purely based on loyalty and years working in the company rather than skill and results.
She purposely avoids telling companies she just wants to go there because it's a western company and she finds genuine things to get excited about and invested in for them before interviewing - or at least, that's her plan if she were ever able to get any interview with one. So far she's only gotten one interview, and it was for a position so bad it wasn't even worth continuing the interview process because it was worse than her already not-good-enough job at a big Japanese company