Will American college students have trouble getting jobs?

Question

Will immigrants from other countries willing to start at a lower salary hurt the chances of our graduates?

If yes how does that make you feel?

I am not talking about illegals.

Many immigrants from Asia come to the states with college degrees. Also many come here on a college visa and keep their citizenship from their nation as they become residents here.

Generation Z : Exactely! I am so surprised to see that many do not realize how many professional jobs are taken by foreigners. How many doctors do you know in a Hospital that are American born?

Look in the phone book at the list of physicians. At the mall look at the jewelry stores, or the donut shops lol.

Look in the phone book at the list of physicians. At the mall look at the jewelry stores, or the donut shops lol.

Thank you :)

Russ I agree in a fair chance. I have a doctor that is Korean and I love him dearly, but having just recently graduated, and currently entering grad school-I have heard a lot of debates on this by students.

I have heard especially in the medical field that it is not a fair comparison. I do not understand what is meant by that though.

Also a college student on a student visa is not a legal resident. They are on a temporary stay here.

Answer 1

the answer is NO and i will explain why ....

the reason is because in the coming years till 2030 60 million baby boomers will retire and just so u know the USA has around 100 million workers just so u see the huge number of people who will retire . what this means for every college graduate is the guaranty of having a job and the guaranty of that job being very well paid will be enormous . so then again the answer is no they won't and i feel great about it , i hope that u too feel great .

my advice to u and to anyone would be to stop complaining about the undocumented and about legal immigrants and to actually get an education , the opportunities are out there and they are raising by the minute . today the USA has a really low number of people with out a job and in fact it has never been lower , plus is the lowest in the entire planet .

every immigrant will become so essential in the near future and the reason being because most Americans logically will try to get the jobs which will be created just by the baby boomers and in fact they will not be able to cover the need of workers , so they will need to bring immigrants from other places . all of this will create so many low skill jobs too ...

i hope i cleared up all ur concerns ... take care :D

Answer 2

You've made it clear you're talking about legal immigrants competing against US nationals. In which case the questions changes: why should anyone care if a *legal* immigrant can do the same job as a US nationl and is willing to accept a lower salary? Americans are often loudly vocal about the free market, but seem strangely uncomfortable when it bites them! If US graduates were better trained, better educated, and genuinely were interested in the job over the cash then they would be able to compete: the problem (if any exists!) lies with the US grads, not the legal immigrants. US employers are certainly parochial enough to cut the US grads considerable slack; if they still can't compete then they have only themselves to blame.

Answer 3

I know what you are talking about. I've seen those kids over and over and everywhere on the campus. We called them, "Bunches" because they all bunched up with same Japanese buddies all the time. I've never seen them trying to interact with other students from other countries or Americans. I think they are shy and too afraid that no one will understand their English. Most of the Japanese 'bunches' who talk and play only with Japanese were the exchange students who only stay for a few months to study English. Their Japanese school was the sister college to mine in U.S. Other Japanese students I saw came to persuade their degrees in U.S. were more outgoing and made friends with Americans and other students from other counties. It was unfortunate that they didn't enjoy the time in U.S. with other people. I must wonder why the school even want to spend the money to be wasted. They attend the classes and go back to dorm room and play with other 'bunches' and drink in the evening. It's a shame. I hated these people because I was also a Japanese student who came to study (I didn't come from the same school as these kids, though.), and saw these people doing the exactly the same thing they do in Japan. The other Japanese students who came individually weren't interact with these "Japanese bunches" also, because it is just a waste of time. There are so many things you can learn from each other. Why you want to waste the perfect opportunity? I don't get it.

Answer 4

I am currently attending the University of Wisconsin- Madison, aka UW-Madison, aka the #1 Party school in American but I don't think it would be a problem at all but if you want to think it will be, go ahead.
I think as the years go on, there would be more and more opportunities for college students out there in the US and abroad.

But how does that make me feel. . .?
Well I won't be graduating until 2-3 years from now, but like I said, it wouldn't be a problem for me because I plan to have a profession/career where the opportunities are there for me and no foreigner is going to take that away from me, we could work together.

Answer 5

Yes. Labor is subject to supply and demand. The reason doctors earn so much is the limited supply the AMA permits to be graduated. Admitting foreign doctors means more doctors and this will lower the salaries of graduating doctors and bring healthcare costs down.

Oh - the same thing applies to valet parking attendants.

Is this a bad thing?

Answer 6

What's lowering salaries is the fact that so many more people go to college. Even though high-wage jobs still only make up 10% of employment, almost 20% of American kids go to college. So there are more people qualified to do the higher paying jobs, driving down salaries.

Answer 7

Isn't the whole point of College that you will be able to obtain a better job, higher paying, etc? What kind of education do the illegals have?

I think the only problem will be in their not looking hard enough, or not being willing to start at the bottom and work their way up.

Let us not blame EVERYTHING on the illegals for crying out loud.

Answer 8

Absolutely, when Cisco CCNA network administrators were making $90,000 five years ago, and we just hired one from Singapore for $42,000 - that's a prime example.

However, our biggest threat, India, has such a language barrier, that we are probably 30-50 years out before their children master the linguistic and communicative skill sets to allow them to compete for high paying American jobs. They are already very inundated in middle income jobs.

Answer 9

No, they won't. American companies are currently having to recruit from other countries because they can't find the skills needed here in America. Other countries have better education and are therefore producing more skilled workers. Until we can compete with that, the free market will determine who gets the jobs. Immigration has nothing to do with it, and it never has.

Answer 10

I think it would be wonderful if immigrants actually had the background to take over jobs that require a college education but that is not likely to happen anytime soon. Many of our immigrants are not well educated or literate in their own language.