Vietnamese graduates overseas should expect to start at bottom

December 8, 2023 | 04:30 pm PT
Readers shared various advices for students coming to study overseas, including choosing a competitive major and not being picky about jobs.

"Job opportunities in Marketing and Communications are few and lesser paid everywhere. Don't spend loads of money for this kind of studies. STEM & Econ offer much better return on your investment."
avbk1966

"Marketing is a job related to people and emotions, with the terms "insight, customer, culture, ..." and you think a foreigner can understand all of that? Can they do better than the locals?"
lilyloius01

"Firstly, stop whining. Secondly, take anything. You cannot expect to start anywhere but the bottom. Take a job, show up on time, put in effort above and beyond what is expected, have the right attitude, be coachable, do extra, and be prepared."
2ndAmendment

"I know several Vietnamese who studied abroad and after studying got excellent positions in the country of choice. Never complain when you can't get your preferred job straight away, but experience life abroad. Ask yourself why you like to stay at the country you are in and then make the choice, either stay or go back. At the end I believe it’s better for most of them to stay as economically is not easy in Vietnam either and your chosen profession could be not paid very well, nor the working culture is in your favor."
Hans van Goor

"Once you have lived and worked in another culture you can never adjust again to what you were before, it changes you forever. But it will make it easier to adjust anywhere and everywhere. The global citizen will never disappear from the planet."
Janvdkh

"The U.S. is the most competitive country in the world, so Vietnamese have LESS chance of advancement there. Same with the U.K. and Western countries, where you are a "small fish". In Vietnam, there is less competition so Vietnamese have MORE chance of advancement. You are a "BIG FISH" in Vietnam, so return to Vietnam." wwgr6jym9b

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