Why fewer and fewer Chinese students are able to stay in the United States

I think this must involve the issue of the employment rate in the United States. Below is an article about the employment of international students in the United States. I saw it on Abroad Style. I will paste it for you.

It has always been a phenomenon that international students find it difficult to find a job in the United States, but it is really sad that accidents occur because of the great pressure to find a job. In fact, in the past two years, especially during the graduation season, I have often received messages from parents of international students asking for help, mostly related to finding a job. Some of them are people whose children are about to graduate from American universities and are seeking work experience. Others are people whose internship period after graduation given by the immigration law is about to run out but still don’t have a formal job. They ask me for advice on how to continue to stay. I can learn from each One message reflects the anxiety, worry and helplessness of being a parent. At present, more and more Chinese students are studying in the United States, but the proportion of people who want to return to China after completing their studies has not been very high. Many people hope to accumulate at least a few years of work experience in the United States before deciding to stay. If these people If your family is not well off enough to afford investment immigration, being able to find a job quickly before and after graduation becomes the most important of the few options left.

Unfortunately, the proportion of Chinese students finding jobs after graduation in the United States seems to be decreasing, but I think this is only a superficial phenomenon. Judging from the figures reported by the government, the retention rate of highly educated top Chinese talents in the United States has always exceeded 85%. Even the "Overseas Chinese News" wrote an article exclaiming that "China has the largest loss of top talents in the world." Therefore, I think that currently, China The decline in the proportion of international students finding jobs after graduation is actually caused by changes in the number and composition of international students, which I have covered in my past article "Why fewer and fewer international students are able to stay in the United States." The reason why it is difficult for international students to find a job in the United States is because of the always-existing objective factors, that is, the restrictions on "immigration status". Those who do not have a green card or are not citizens need their employer to sponsor a work visa, and applications for work visas are often full on the first day of issuance every year. If you exceed the quota, you often have to draw lots to accept the application. It is understandable that many companies nowadays do not want to get into this trouble, so they simply do not recruit international students. More importantly, there are also emerging factors that make it difficult for Chinese students to find jobs in the United States. In recent years, there are more and more undergraduates among international students, with varying levels of skills. There are also many majors that they are more interested in, such as accounting, business, finance, etc. Americans like it, which is completely different from the past when international students mainly had PhDs in science. In the latter, few Americans got involved, and the types of status that can be sponsored by work units have also increased, so the proportion of finding a job is obviously higher than that of current international students. Much more.

It is an indisputable fact that it is difficult for Chinese students studying in the United States to find jobs, but don’t be discouraged because even the proportion of American college students who can find a job immediately after graduation is not that high. One of the most important ones is lack of work experience. For Chinese students studying abroad, since the innate factor of immigration “status” cannot be solved, they have to make up for it in other acquired factors such as “experience”. I wrote the following interview for "Reader's Original Edition" in October last year. Recording may help you better find the direction of your efforts.