Saturday, October 22, 2011

Discrimination

The reading we were given mainly discusses “barriers to success”. Among the six that were presented I found barrier #6, discrimination, very thought-provoking. I say this because I’m an international student studying in the U.S. I’ll be graduating in four years and like everyone else, I’ll be looking for a job. Questions like the following come to me when I think about future job prospects: will employers discriminate me as an international student because my alien status requires them to take more measures to employ me (e.g work visa, social security,etc.)?

I have a friend who is in his sophomore year, who told me that as an international student, I would find it more difficult to get a job than a typical American student. His advice to me was to work as hard as possible and get some kind of relevant work experience so as to make companies see that hiring an international student would be a good choice.

I wonder if despite all the efforts I would make, some companies will still discriminate? I guess the solution is not to think about the question and do our best.

2 comments:

  1. I agree with the statement that as an international students, it more difficult to get a job than a typical American student. There are many successful examples about those people who success in U.S. And these people worked hard in their universities and some of them even got brilliant achievements. I think no matter we choose to work in America or go back to homeland after we graduate, all we need to do is work as hard as possible now. And according to the experiences of other graduated students, work experience is important too. Purdue provides many interesting internships and co-op. These are the good chance for us to learn more things in real life and will be helpful in the future.(ENGR 103)

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  2. I think that there are many points in the reading that can be very interesting. Your point about job discrimination is something that really caught my attention, because it is true, sometimes it is more difficult for an alien to find a job in the U.S.A.. However, many international companies have hiring policies that 'force' them to have a diverse staff, this means that all of their employees cannot be american white men, but also women, black, asians, hispanic, etc, basically as varied as possible. So don't worry about that, moreover, the U.S.A. is not the only place where you can get hired, you have a whole world! :p (engr 103)

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