Not really concerning me, but rather for my missy. She just got back from the first day of a 4-day training session for a chinese-based company that she applied for and hates it.
Basically she graduated about six months ago and has been searching for a full-time job while working in various casual ones in the meantime. So this is the rundown.
- From Hong Kong, her english is pretty good but not on the same level as the locals. Fluent in Cantonese and fairly good at Mandarin.
- Graduated with a bachelor's degree of media and communication (including a fair amount of psychology).
- Plenty of work experience (mainly in market research, customer relations and telemarketing), but it's almost exclusively fairly low-end and casual.
Thing is, when she started out she was aiming primarily for journalism/television-related work, but unfortunately most jobs that relate to it require an english that's on a level beyond what she's got. Personally I think she'd do amazingly well as a kindergarten teacher because of her bubbly personality, but then again there's not much of a career in that and her studies/work don't reflect it sufficiently much.
I know that it's a tough call without more details, but any advice into what might be a suitable career choice or job position? Or how to overcome the problem with the field of study and language barrier?