Young foreigners look at China for good jobs

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The foreigners the article refers to includes Americans.

The disparity in growth and job growth suggests interesting trends.

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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 US 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 US, Europe and some Asian countries. Many do basic work such as teaching English, a service in demand from Chinese business people and students.

But a growing number are arriving with skills and experience in computers, finance and other fields. ‘‘China is really the land of opportunity now, compared to their home countries,’’ said Chris Watkins, manager for China and Hong Kong of MRI China Group, a headhunting firm.