What Are the Prospects For a Foreigner to Get a Job in the US Today?

In the US today with Unemployment above 9% it isfewer foreigners are looking for jobs means that there
has meant many immigrants have been laid off alongis less competition for you in your US Job search. Most
with their US counterparts. Combine all this with thepeople on an H1B visa tend to be from Asian
recent anti-foreign worker legislation introduced in thebackgrounds and/or highly educated and work in the
US Congress, it has been very gloomy both fornewer sectors of the economy is also beneficial given
immigrants outside the US wanting to work or studythe unemployment rate for these groups are far lower
here as well as those already on work visas like thethan the National average.
H1B visa, L1 visa or E3 visain 2007 for US studentsIt is also worth noting that many US recent
around the country, 50% of new US Collegeundergraduates are postponing enter the workforce
graduates had jobs already and now this figure is onlyand doing Masters programs meaning less competition
20% of new US College graduates so foreigners offrom them as well.
course will find it even tougherThe set of circumstance that foreign immigrants are
What Can You Do To Keep Positive & Get Afacing today taken with an optimistic outlook are
Job In the US?favorable in many ways that you will never again see
Consider that as amid crisis there is always opportunityin your lifetime.
and companies like Apple, Intel, Microsoft, etc. (theYou can certainly find the silver lining in this story
modern global powerhouses) all started in the midst ofeconomic cloud to live and work in the US for many
deep economic recessions and bleak times.years to come.
The fact that the H1B visa total is unfilled now and