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Q: Can someone tell me, how can I work in China after getting my bachelor degree?
7 years 29 weeks ago in Business & Jobs - China
Depends what you want to do. If it is a non-teaching job then you've got basically no chance of getting a work permit with no experience. You may be able to find an internship somewhere.
If you're looking to teach English then you're supposed to have two years post-graduation work experience. You can get around taking by taking the official SAFEA "TEFL in China" course.
The usual way seems to work for most people, decide what it is you want to do and start applying for jobs in that field.
Shining_brow:
Dude! Way too complex for the OP... can you dumb it down somewhat so it's understandable???
at Shining.Depends what you want to do. If it is a non-teaching job then you've got basically no chance of getting a work permit with no experience. You may be able to find an internship somewhere.
If you're looking to teach English then you're supposed to have two years post-graduation work experience. You can get around taking by taking the official SAFEA "TEFL in China" course.
If I do have a one year experience? I heard that experience counts only after you get bachelor degree. So basically, experience before bachelor doesn't counts.
Stiggs:
I'm not sure if it's the same everywhere, or how the rule is being enforced or interpreted but I've met people who started teaching straight out of school, meaning any experience they had was before they received their degree.
icnif77:
2-years experience requirement is there to prevent too young people are coming to China, but as Stiggs said, it might not be required all around China.
So, prepare your CV and start email it to the job adverts. Recruiters will tell you immediately, if they can place you to the School or no.
Other thing of your Q is 'there are not too many people on this Board with similar experience, so best is to try by yourself' and tell us later how it went.
I was looking at job adverts here today, and one advert was: '..if Native English speaker, degree isn't required...'. I am not sure, what kind of visa they are offering, but you are legal worker in China only with Z - Working visa. Everything else is illegal, so it wouldn't be wise to accept job with F visa, but I am sure, employers are offering 'come to China with L visa '. Once you arrive to China on wrong visa, you'll be required to return back home and apply for proper working visa (Z) in home country's Chinese Embassy.
What if I am searching non-teaching job? Is it almost impossible to find a non-teaching job?
icnif77:
I guess, you should be fluent in Chinese for anything else than English teaching.
Your Qs are similar to: 'Should I cross the road ....?'.
Get your CV together and send it to the offers which interest you. All job adverts have requirements .... click 'Jobs' tag and see it for yourself, if you can match it.
Best impression you'll get, when you'll see replies to your CV.
Chinese don't reply to CV, if they aren't interested as in West 'Sorry, the position is filled ...' and you should send CV everywhere.
I know for the English teaching opening at my School, but you'll talk to the owner, so what can I tell you?
I have feeling, that's all phoney ... What the fork is the matter with you?
Can I drink water?
No, you can't!
Get a glass, open the valve and drink it!
Did you know, Chinese formal shoe laces are 1.13 cm longer than the Western ones?
Do you know, why I am not getting any pints, when commenting?
Hotwater:
Minimum requirements for a non-teaching job are bachelors degree and two years post graduation experience in the same area or 5 years experience with a college diploma.
There is a new experiment going on. It was published in the Chinese press this week. If you get your degree in China they might let you stay. It's a sort of reverse brain drain. Too many high ranking kids have been leaving China to study, and they don't come back. Makes it difficult to get the family out when they do that. Never mind the money.
So now foreign students can come to China, and they can bring the family money to build apartment blocks.
Sure, just depends on what area you want to get into... certain special visa permissions for various industries.
I ll get my bachelor degree from a Beijing university in the end of this year, so I would like to stay here and work. Anyway, thank you all for you answers. Much appreciate.
Hotwater:
You might be in luck mate! In Shanghai they are starting to let foreign graduates from Chinese universities get jobs with no previous experience.
http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/post/15539/work-permits-changing-to-accommodate-both-workers-and-students-in-shanghai
they claim this will be expanded to other cities soon but don't say when. Ask your university staff to look into this for you.
icnif77:
You are studying in Beijing and you don't know how to rent an apartment in Beijing?
Where's 'teats'?
'Teats' has an ability to correctly measure poster's IQ.....just by reading OP's posts. 
Ohhh, that was Shining this time.....
aang:
Maybe because some people live in a dorm.
And yes I know the prices in Beijing, but I want to know what other people know about it and if youd dont like my question, please, no one forces you to answer it. Thank you.
