How to find a job after graduation in the United States

Graduate Employment in the United States Most people expect to find a good job in the United States after graduation before applying for graduate students in the United States. Even if I don't plan to work hard in America, I hope to accumulate some work experience in America first. To know the proportion of students with this mentality, ask the students who go abroad next to them. So how should we know the employment situation of American graduate students? Let's look at the specific situation. Is it easy to find a job in America? The devastating and widespread economic crisis has made American employment even scarcer. The rising unemployment rate has made more Americans join the ranks of job hunting. What is the basis for studying in the United States to compete with Americans? Are there more and more American returnees in recent years? The news everywhere is sending us this message. This answers the question for us from another aspect. Staying in the United States is not easy to force students studying in the United States to return to China to seek a breakthrough. What is the employment situation in the United States? In China, if you can't find an ideal job after graduation, you will study for a master's degree to increase your competitiveness. Who would have thought that after graduating from a master's degree, he still couldn't find an ideal job and then went to study for a doctorate? However, we must understand that this rule does not apply in the United States. Generally speaking, graduate employment in the United States is not as good as undergraduate employment. In the United States, most students choose employment after graduation. Moreover, American culture does not blindly worship academic qualifications like China, but values personal ability. As long as you can show your value, you can be hired. The most important thing that a master's degree or doctor's degree is not as good as an undergraduate degree is that most jobs do not require such high-tech personnel, and only undergraduate knowledge is enough to be competent. In the second aspect, the education system in the United States determines the phenomenon that "graduate students' employment is not as good as undergraduate students" to some extent. Generally speaking, the American education system is very different from ours. In most schools in China, master's degree is the only way to get a doctorate, which can be said to be step-by-step and insurmountable. In the United States, an undergraduate can go directly to study for a doctorate. Many times our domestic classmates call this direct blog. In fact, this is not right, although I will take some classes with many master students in the process of directly studying for a doctorate. But there is still a big difference in essence. Generally speaking, the orientation of American master's education is to cultivate those advanced technical talents; The orientation of doctoral students is to cultivate creators, that is, people who are committed to doing research. Therefore, the so-called direct students omit the opportunity to become technical talents. Even if they work in enterprises in the future, what they can do is mostly research, not technology. For example, an undergraduate studying in A school and another graduate studying in B school have the same graduation time in theory, but their future employment is different. Knowing this, I hope to inspire students who are trying to apply for a doctorate or a master's degree. From such different educational purposes, we can see some clues of graduate school employment. Senior technical personnel (with emphasis on senior) account for a relatively low proportion of employees in most companies, so there are not many opportunities to apply for corresponding positions. If you are a doctoral student doing research, there are even fewer positions. So we found out why PhD can't find a job, because there are too few jobs that really need PhD to apply for. There must be a plan at the beginning of the study abroad plan: what major is good to go to the United States for employment? Generally speaking, the majors that China people are easy to find jobs in the United States are high-tech majors, such as science and engineering; It is also a major with high mathematics content. Why is this happening? Throughout the history of Chinese in North America, people who can finally engage in some occupations that Americans are unwilling to engage in based on their own technological advantages. Simply put, first, based on their own technology; Second, what others don't do. Obviously, most students who choose liberal arts and business do not have these two advantages. First, liberal arts and business are the advantages of Americans. Take business as an example. Americans' extroverted personality makes it easier for them to gain a foothold in this industry. And China people, no matter how good their personalities are, can hardly stand out among Americans. The same is true for liberal arts majors. For example, as a native of China, your mother tongue is not English, so you have to chew words with Americans, which requires a lot of ability. Looking around, there are more and more Americans in China, but how many can earn money in Chinese like Dashan? Second, generally speaking, Americans are unwilling to engage in jobs with high mathematics content. As we all know, Americans are poor at math. At the same time, Americans are unwilling to engage in boring and repetitive technical jobs. Their characteristics and advantages lie in their creativity and imagination in the technical field. The specialty of China people is the realization after having a direction. So this is why science and engineering students, especially engineering students, are more likely to find jobs. However, we know that the choice of major is not how we want to choose it, and there are many factors that restrict our choice, among which the biggest three are: the courses we studied in undergraduate course; Relevant background (research background, social activities, internship, etc.). ); Hobbies. These three factors directly make it difficult for us to make a breakthrough change in the choice of major.