It’s hard to immigrate on a pro visa without experience. Companies are generally accepting to take the risk because you bring skills and experience that are hard to recruit locally, such as senior engineers.
If you are still studying, another solution is to pass an additional diploma in EU. A EU diploma will be a strong advantage to stay.
Hmm… I think the play may be to stay in the US a little bit longer to build up reserve funds, then try to apply for a visa to make that happen. Hopefully I can stay safe-ish till then.
(Bit of a funny sidenote, that cost is comically lower compared to my current tuition. My current per-quarter tuition is roughly double that, ~15k USD)
In some countries it’s almost free. EPF schools in Switzerland for example are something like 600$ per semester. You only have to pay for some administrative stuff.
But of course you have to pay to live outside of school and that’s where the fun begins 🤷🏻♂️
Just to add: Germany (and probably other countries, but I’m not familiar) also has a special job type “working student” with some tax and insurance benefits (usually net pay after health insurance of a little under 1000€/month for a 20hr week), which is also a good way to gain experience while under a student visa and in the best case switch to full time employment at the same company (or another one, where you would then at least have some experience working in the country already). We have a few students from outside the EU in my company that are doing/did exactly that.
Of course those jobs don’t grow on trees either, but it’s a thing that to my knowledge doesn’t have an equivalent in the US. Hiring students is much cheaper for companies so quite a few are searching in spite of the low hours (20/week is the legal limit) and usually no experience.
Come to Czechia! I am working in an academic institute at my Uni. Besides experienced candidates we sometimes take students and post graduates (local and international) and we are always short on engineers. Pay is not much but the health and social benefits are worth it for a start.
This is probably applicable in any EU state, more developed countries than Czech Republic will have higher salaries, higher living standards (ie Germany, Netherlands, France, etc) but also more expensive services.
Tl;dr: in EU you can work in academia, you get standard employment benefits, but “government” pay, still worth it tho
If you are experienced and you accept EU salaries in exchange for a social system, you should be able to make it.
Ah, I’m about to graduate. Not much prior experience. Damn.
Cern was looking for graduates a while back.
It’s hard to immigrate on a pro visa without experience. Companies are generally accepting to take the risk because you bring skills and experience that are hard to recruit locally, such as senior engineers. If you are still studying, another solution is to pass an additional diploma in EU. A EU diploma will be a strong advantage to stay.
What’s the expected cost? (Not counting food and housing)
Depends on the country and uni, but generally lower than the US, 6-8k EUR per semester for people from outside the EU.
Hmm… I think the play may be to stay in the US a little bit longer to build up reserve funds, then try to apply for a visa to make that happen. Hopefully I can stay safe-ish till then.
(Bit of a funny sidenote, that cost is comically lower compared to my current tuition. My current per-quarter tuition is roughly double that, ~15k USD)
In some countries it’s almost free. EPF schools in Switzerland for example are something like 600$ per semester. You only have to pay for some administrative stuff.
But of course you have to pay to live outside of school and that’s where the fun begins 🤷🏻♂️
We have two semester per year, do I assume correctly that your cost per quarter is paid 2-3 times per year? If so, damn.
4 quarters per year (Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer), although summer quarters are optional.
Just to add: Germany (and probably other countries, but I’m not familiar) also has a special job type “working student” with some tax and insurance benefits (usually net pay after health insurance of a little under 1000€/month for a 20hr week), which is also a good way to gain experience while under a student visa and in the best case switch to full time employment at the same company (or another one, where you would then at least have some experience working in the country already). We have a few students from outside the EU in my company that are doing/did exactly that.
Of course those jobs don’t grow on trees either, but it’s a thing that to my knowledge doesn’t have an equivalent in the US. Hiring students is much cheaper for companies so quite a few are searching in spite of the low hours (20/week is the legal limit) and usually no experience.
Come to Czechia! I am working in an academic institute at my Uni. Besides experienced candidates we sometimes take students and post graduates (local and international) and we are always short on engineers. Pay is not much but the health and social benefits are worth it for a start. This is probably applicable in any EU state, more developed countries than Czech Republic will have higher salaries, higher living standards (ie Germany, Netherlands, France, etc) but also more expensive services.
Tl;dr: in EU you can work in academia, you get standard employment benefits, but “government” pay, still worth it tho
Expect to make much less than in the US, too.