Graduates looking for work in Shanghai and Beijing

Beijing - Shanghai and Beijing are new opportunities for American soil graduates, faced with double figures the rate of unemployment at home.


Džošua Arjuna Stefans graduated in 2007. the Veslijan University. Currently working in Beijing at XPD Media program, where online games. Chinese advanced economies, lower costs of living and a chance to avoid financial obligations for the first regular employment in the United States, are a troll, even for Americans with limited or no knowledge of Chinese language. "I did not know anything about China," says Džošua Stefans. "People see me as eccentric. I did not know the language but I wanted to do something. " After two years of work in the NGO sector and a large firm for Public Relations in Beijing, Stefans He perfected the mandarin dialect, and as a manager in the XPD Media, a company in Beijing, where the program online games.

"I Witness the past few years, waves of influx of young people who come to work in China," says Jack Perkovski, founder Asimko tehnolodži, one of the largest automotive parts companies in China. "When I came to China in 1994, it was a period of the arrival of the first wave of Americans in China. Today is the power of another wave. " Perkovski before going to China 20 years to Volstritu. He says that many Chinese companies employ people from English speaking areas to help them to help American market insight.

Jonathan Vecel, Mekinsi and partner in the business in Shanghai, who lives in China in the middle of the 1980s, says that in comparison with the period of a few years ago, today an increasing number of Americans coming to China in search of a better life. "China offers many opportunities, especially the energy sector, and young people are willing to come and try something new," says Vecel.

Chinese economy is gostoljubivija for entrepreneurs and for those who seek employment, the gross domestic product and higher than 7.9 percent in the last quarter compared with the period of last year. Unemployment in urban areas was 4.3 percent, the official government data.

Ksi Grace, president of the club Jejl in Beijing, which was graduated in 2007, says that a growing number of graduates from the University Jejl coming to work in China, in relation to a period of two years ago when she arrived in Beijing. Currently working in the company pekinškoj Hill and Nolton, which deals with public relations.

Sarabet Berman, which is 2006. Bernard graduated in college, came to Beijing when he was 23 years of work in the United States because of their years would not be able to perform: the program director of modern dance companies, Berman says that the job was crucial that the knowledge of modern western dances . "Despite the fact that not a good knowledge of Chinese language, and the fact that I was without work experience in China, given me the chance to manage programs related to the tour, international projects and the organization of the annual dance festival in Beijing. After two years living and working in China, Berman learned the language, traveled China, Europe and the USA thanks to this work. Willie Cao, artistic director at Dance / LDTX, says that it is employed because of its ability Bermanovu make friends outside of China. "It is a needed capability to communicate with the western world." He added that people from the west bring skills and knowledge that is hard to find among the Chinese. "Sarabet is always preduzimala initiatives and think what we can do, while the standard approach to the Chinese to meet the orders." He emphasizes the large difference in the education system. "In Chinese schools, students are taught to be peaceful and less open, to listen more and take less initiative.

Many young Americans China solve the financial problem to start a business. Džejson Mizijum (23), who is a graduate of the Department of Biology at Harvard, says that China is much cheaper to start a business. For the establishment of academic groups Sofos, consulting firm that works with the Chinese students who want to study in the United States, said that he needed 12,000 dollars. Among the majority of young Americans, Chinese exit strategy is the main topic of discussion. Many still think that one day back in the U.S., although they know that the experience in China will not be tickets for the big job at home.