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Jobs Prospects In Foreign Countries For Mba's

Posted by Anonymous on 12/13/2004 at 8:17 AM ET 125 Points
sir.. my name is jitesh dhawan pursuing my MBA from an avg institute sir i want to know that will it be easier to get a job in foreign country(pref. USA)as being a fresher if yes please guide me .. my specialisation is in marketing and H.R..
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  • Posted on 12/13/2004 at 11:09 AM Accepted
    Jitesh,
    There are many issues you will need to think about when looking for a job overseas.

    For one thing, I'm assuming you don't live in the USA presently so:

    1. You will need a working visa. However, you would need a company to sponsor you in order to get a working visa (which pretty much means you need to have a company hire you in the first place).

    2. Do you have any market experience within the USA? If not, you will need to give a good reason why a US company should hire you with no local experience over someone who does.

    3. You don't mention this but if you are a fresh graduate with no work experience, you will again be at a disadvantage. Having an MBA doesn't mean as much as it did in the old days.

    Especially fresh grads who go straight into an MBA have a lot more to prove than an experienced professional with years of work experience and an MBA.

    I don't mean to be pessimistic, however, being very familiar with job searches in overseas countries (or otherwise known as migrant workers), the above issues should be the top of your list if you are considering working in a foreign country.

    You will find that there's a catch 22, you can't get local experience if no one hires you however, you need local experience just to get in the door. It's a common dilemma, and one I think you should think about before actually making a leap into a foreign country.

    I used to know people who were professional engineers in the Philippines, however, when they moved to Canada, they could only get work cleaning toilets as their qualifications were not recognised in Canada.
  • Posted by SRyan ;] on 12/13/2004 at 11:17 AM Member
    Do you have an identical twin? ;]

    Someone asked a question just like yours last week.

  • Posted by Peter (henna gaijin) on 12/13/2004 at 5:43 PM Member
    Wayne covers many good points. Part of why an MBA doesn't mean as much is because there are many more people graduating with this degree than there was in the past.

    What he says about the Visa for the United States can't be emphasized enough. I know many recruiters who will automatically disqualify a person if they don't have a Visa to work in the United States.

    If you really want to leave your current country, you may do better if you focus on areas where business education and business are not as strong. Examples would be China and Russia, where your education would become much more beneficial.
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