Studying in the United States The most difficult place to find a job in the United States is undoubtedly Chinese liberal arts students.

Employment rate is one of the issues that American students and parents are most concerned about when choosing a major, and it is also an important issue related to students' future. It is said that this year is the most difficult year for domestic college students to find a job, but for American college students on the other side of the ocean, the most difficult employment season has been going on for several years. Only 16 American college students found a job before April 1. For Chinese students, the most difficult to find a job are Chinese liberal arts students.

The unemployment rate in the United States is high, and most Chinese liberal arts students are returning home.

Only 16 people who will graduate in 2013 will find a job before April 1. In addition, an employer survey found that among 500 company personnel managers, 58 said they did not plan to recruit new college graduates this year, and 2/3 of those who planned to recruit said they would only recruit 1 or 2 people. As of April this year, the national unemployment rate was 7.52, the unemployment rate for college graduates aged 21 to 24 was 8.8, three percentage points higher than in 2007, and the underemployment rate was 18.3, almost double that of 2007. It can be seen that the job market for American college students has not yet returned to the level before the financial crisis. It is even more difficult for international students, and it is even more difficult for Chinese international students studying liberal arts.

Many Chinese liberal arts students can hardly find an employer willing to apply for a work visa. Even if they do stay, most of them get a one-year internship in the United States after graduation, which is called OBT. For example, George Washington University’s International Guanguan School, one of the top public relations schools in the United States, had six Chinese graduates last year, but none of them found a job in the United States. There are 13 Chinese international students graduating this year, and nine have decided to return to China. Four of them are still using OBT, and none of them have found a job in the United States to obtain status.

George Washington major in communication studies has 80 graduates this year, including 20 Chinese students. 1/3 have decided to return home because they feel there is no hope of finding a job in the United States, and the other 2/3 plan to stay again. After a while, we will see that if we can't find it in September, OBT will no longer be available and we will have to return to China. At that time, we can still catch up with the recruitment of domestic college graduates.

The salary of liberal arts college graduates is lower than the national average.

It has long been an open secret that liberal arts college graduates have difficulty finding jobs in the United States. For international liberal arts students, it is even more difficult. International students are not very interested in studying science and engineering. There is a huge demand for high-skilled workers in high-tech industries in the United States. However, American students mostly study business and liberal arts. Their cultural background, language advantages, and personal connections are far beyond what international students can compare with. . In addition, the U.S. government, which needs liberal arts students, generally only recruits citizens of its own country, leaving the options for international liberal arts students to be much smaller.

The latest survey by George University found that the 10 lowest-paying majors for American college graduates are all humanities and language majors, including drama writing, anthropology, fine arts, philosophy, film and videography, Music, etc., annual salary is less than 30,000 US dollars. The average starting salary for college students across the United States this year is $45,000.

Faced with this unfavorable situation, if Chinese students studying in the United States want to stay and work in the United States, they must first choose their majors carefully, and try to choose science and engineering majors as well as economics, finance, and business majors. Of course, everyone’s ambitions and interests are different. If you don’t want to go against your professional interests, you should also think and plan in advance. Start early. Start from the first day of studying abroad to accumulate the necessary resources and connections to find a job in the future. Especially during internships, you need to be more targeted, so that it will be relatively easier to find a job when you graduate.