Young Americans Going To China For Jobs

Posted by Randal Rayborn on October 17, 2009 - Filed under China, Economy

American Mikala Reasbeck smiles at a recruiting office in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

American Mikala Reasbeck smiles at a recruiting office in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

(Bonnie Cao, 9/20/09 – Huffington Post) BEIJING — When the best job Mikala Reasbeck could find after college in Boston was counting pills part-time in a drugstore for $7 an hour, she took the drastic step of jumping on a plane to Beijing in February to look for work.

A week after she started looking, the 23-year-old from Wheeling, West Virginia, had a full-time job teaching English.

“I applied for jobs all over the U.S. There just weren’t any,” said Reasbeck, who speaks no Chinese but had volunteered at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In China, she said, “the jobs are so easy to find. And there are so many.”

Young foreigners like Reasbeck are coming to China to look for work in its unfamiliar but less bleak economy, driven by the worst job markets in decades in the United States, Europe and some Asian countries. read more…

One Response to “Young Americans Going To China For Jobs”

  1. The Crossroads | AsiaLynx Says:
    October 17th, 2009 at 9:39 pm

    [...] health of the global economy and the trends in trade, commerce, and employment.  Stories such as “Young Americans Going To China For Jobs” and “China’s super-rich only second to US” are treated as novelty tidbits by the [...]

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