American graduates, China Rob "Rice bowl"?

American University graduate Denis rented a one-bedroom apartment near Beijing Xidan, with a monthly lease of more than 2000, empty and old.　　He was busy painting the house with cream.　　After graduating from Duke University this year, Denis found his beautiful resume, in the United States in the face of employment in the winter and waste paper no different, even if "even sweeping the floor to dry."　　He turned his eyes to China on the other side of the ocean and soon received an invitation from a prominent PR firm there to be a paid intern. Denis's job search is a testament to a recent news story in The New York Times: "There are no doors for job seekers, and American graduates are looking for jobs in China."　　The author's attempt to show the Chinese story of nearly 10 American graduates shows that after the financial crisis, Shanghai and Beijing are becoming new targets for fresh U.S. graduates looking for opportunities, and not even speaking Chinese does not affect their efforts to get a good job there. The article is a stimulus to the American people, many American netizens denounced their country has fallen into the "brain drain" situation, and some of the Chinese experience of the reader is dismissive, "China is so easy to mix the place?"　　"And for the Chinese, it's also a struggle--the most realistic question now is whether these blond foreign students will take away the jobs that are already rare for Chinese graduates." "The age of Worshiper has passed" Denis did Rob Chinese peers of their jobs. The PR company's recruitment information is from his Chinese friend, China's fresh graduates Xu Xian told him.　　Xu Xian has not received a reply, and Denis the next day received an interview notice. "This is a fair competition and sooner or later we all have to face international competition."　　Xu Xian seemed not surprised.　　Tom, director of career planning at the University of California, Berkeley, told Southern Weekend reporters that after the financial crisis, 70% of U.S. companies cut hiring plans and even no longer recruit fresh graduates, and that China and Europe were among the first to graduate to find opportunities abroad. But these American graduates are not always so good at life. Dave, who graduated from Michigan State University this year, has been in Shanghai for four months and has not yet found a job, but his mother occasionally calls to encourage, "read the article in the New York Times"? Dave, it seems your choice is right! "My choice is right?" Dave began to doubt himself. And he rented two fresh graduates "fellow" also did not carry out work.　　Every day in bed, three people on their laptops, write a cover letter, every five minutes to refresh the mailbox.　　Dave and his roommate never go to a job fair for Chinese fresh graduates, where a two thousand or three thousand yuan salary is not enough to cover their monthly rent of more than 10,000 yuan and the food costs of the original U.S. imports. Their preferred target is the world's top 500 and US-owned companies. On the data, there seems to be a lot of opportunities, as of August 2008, more than 200 of the world's top 500 have established branches in Shanghai. In fact, these companies will also be in the United States every OctoberOrganized a job fair, but for the last two years most companies just went through the motions to sell a face. When he first arrived in China, Jared,dave, a roommate at Michigan State University's Graduate School of Economics, intended to invest in the top 12 of the world's investment bank, and he was confident that "I can bring pure Western thinking and working style to these companies in China."　　But he was soon dismissed by the seniors who worked there, not to mention vacancies at the moment, or interns. Chris,dave's other roommate, who graduated from the University of Miami this year, was fortunate enough to have an interview with a US-funded company. The same blonde interviewer asked his last question, why do you come to China to get a job? Crhis: Like you, you see this market full of opportunities.　　"But so far there is no hereafter. "I don't see the advantage of these hairy-headed kids," he said.　　Shaun Rein, head of China market research, said he had too many options after the financial crisis and received four or five of competitive job resumes from Wall Street every month, all of them unemployed. Showe, the head of a PE agency in Beijing, also received intensive copies of American graduate resumes from various sources, Stanford, Yale, Chinese students and old Americans. "The age of Worshiper has passed," he looked at a thick stack of English resumes, "Chinese college students, language, knowledge structure, IQ, salary expectations, etc. comprehensive cost-effective." "He's not going to pick people out of this pile of foreign graduates:" PE is about seniority and must be familiar with Chinese and Chinese markets. "After hitting the wall, Jared's superiority gradually lowered, he even through 51job website to several Chinese companies to cast a resume, but note: Starting salary can be around 8000 yuan, but hope to pay a few months later." No surprise, he didn't get any reply.　　[Page]　　"Sooner or later, you'll need a suitable American." Benjamin, 2009 graduate of the University of Wisconsin, has solved a work visa to China by applying for a foreign language training center in Beijing, as a transition to a job search in China. Foreign teacher, is more and more to China's American graduates of the transition work, which is equivalent to the Chinese to the United States often from washing dishes.　　In the past 16 months, the company has received an average of 70,000 job resumes a month, of which 40% of the applicants are from the United States, said Molly, a recruiting director at an English-language training institute. But this is by no means their goal. After his livelihood was resolved, Dave was more determined to differentiate himself from competition. He began to target China's burgeoning golf game. In 2006, when he was a sophomore, he applied to China to participate in a lawn management project, discovering that China's golf industry has great potential, for example, Shanghai now has only about 10 golf courses, "China's middle class is growing larger, business people to do business in China more and more," in addition,　　Chinese officials are also keen on golf. " Dave DistanceOne of the closest to success is the negotiation with a Shanghai golf course, can speak Chinese, have two or three years of golf experience, foreign people's he, from each other's requirements are only a little less, "they require fluent in English, five years of work experience, a wealth of network resources, Southeast Asian people are preferred." "But he is not frustrated:" Sooner or later they will need a suitable American. "This hairy-headed kid is trying to be mature and graceful to adapt to opportunities that might come."　　Every day, in addition to doing foreign teachers, he spent more and more time with seniors: Senior business partners Close, and they drink coffee, or to Shanghai around the golf course practice pole, mixed face cooked.　　He also set up a Chinese alumni association at the Michigan State University Business School, which will reach more than 30 people next year. "Conservatively, our association will soon have more than 100 people. More and more people will find the value of China. "At that time, they will all be my good clients or business partners." "In the American society, where alumni culture is valued, alumni often play a pivotal role in the recent graduates." Seniors highly recommended, often more than a beautiful resume more strength. Benjamin recently found a big-shot alumnus at alumni, the son of former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, and Levin of his PhD in Wisconsin in 1994. Ben plans to magnetic with the incumbent chairman of China International Finance Corporation, he does not understand why Chinese friends think this is not very reliable: "If George W. Bush's daughter is my alumni, and her magnetic is a very natural thing, just know it, and do not ask them to give me a job in the backdoor."　　"20 of the top 100 universities in the U.S. Career Planning Center for the southern Weekend, confirmed that the number of graduates to work in China (including Chinese students), in recent years in Beijing, Shanghai set Up Alumni Association branch. Marva, of the University of Washington's career center, said in a reply that the momentum was "not surprising" because "the University of Washington graduates are full of ambition and entrepreneurial risk-taking". Shh！ "Dave's roommate, Jared, is a little more than a joke," it's a new trend, but it's also a non-mainstream choice, and it's often the young, single, adventurous boys who discover the opportunities here. I don't want too many Americans to know that.　　"Is China the only option?"　　Because the public relations company's intern position cannot apply for a work visa, Denis cannot stay in Beijing long, after two months, can only change to obtain the visa more convenient Hong Kong.　　BLCU Propaganda Department Zhang told our correspondent, the Chinese government has always been more stringent visa issuance, foreign students if the acquisition of a student visa, not allowed to work in the territory, even part-time also do not; the most stable is to apply for a working visa, valid for 1-2 years. In fact, most of them did not want to spend a lifetime in China. The Chinese gold Rush's gambling period is usually two yearsAbout。　　September 15, 2009, the anniversary of the global financial crisis, Obama announced the reduction of investment in enterprises, the U.S. recovery signal to cheer people.　　EF's teacher, Cara, is planning to end work here next year, returning home to California, where the employment situation in California should be much better. From this point of view, China is far from the real free mobile market for global talent. But one notable change is that China has clearly distinguished itself from other countries that are exotic and other landscapes, in the eyes of America, which has always attached great importance to international experience.　　Going to China has changed from the past to "make you different" and become what you are now. Max, who graduated this year from Cornell University, the father, who was the first American businessman to go to China for gold in the early 90, moved his toy company's manufacturing plant to the cheap China Pearl River Delta, a few times a year to China, and still could not speak Chinese for more than 10 years; his American friend in China,　　Either a businessman like him, or an executive sent by the company's headquarters, is always complaining about being "banished to the frontier." Ten years later, new executives began competing to apply to China, with more than 14,000 foreign business people in Shanghai as of August 2008. When Max applied for college that year in 2005, his father suggested that he should learn Chinese: "In the future, if you want to do business, you will go to China."　　After graduating this year, Max applied for a real estate company in Beijing, in his view, the father of the generation of manufacturing has become a sunset, real estate companies, consulting companies, investment companies and other companies such as capital closely linked to the future of China's most lucrative areas. The growing circle of friends, the intensity of Starbucks, can be pieced together into a map of Europe and the United States the size of the real name, so that Max and his friends feel that they are actually not far from home.　　Although they all believe that sooner or later they will return to the United States, with a highly value-added Chinese experience, to their motherland gradually revive the economic tide to do a big. Jordan is a handful of graduates who claim to stay in China for life. After two years of teaching in Shenzhen, he opened a U.S. intermediary service company for the top Chinese students who want to enter the Ivy League university in the United States to create the perfect application materials, and ushered in a generous return, interestingly, the hot business is just to disprove, the United States is still the center of the world and young people yearning for the place,　　How different his choice is. But Jordan still lobbied his brother to come to China after graduating next year to try his luck, "I told them that China was their only option," and I believe that my grandson will be proud of his grandfather's choice to start a world in China, just as I am proud of my grandparents who immigrated to America from Italy and Ireland. "