VietNamNet Bridge - The majority of excellent graduates stay overseas after they finish studying. Most of the graduates returning to Vietnam after school are not good enough, and many of them pay to get jobs at state agencies, analysts say.

 

 

In the past, foreign school graduates always had higher priority in employers’ lists of candidates thanks to their attractive CVs. However, employers tend to change their thoughts now.

A labor expert, who has decades of experience in recruiting workers for finance and pharmacy groups, said foreign school graduates can be classified into two groups – the group of students who have ‘real study’ and the group of students who ‘study with money’.

Employers, of course, prefer the first group of candidates. Most of them go abroad to study for a doctorate after studying and working in Vietnam.

“Since they studied and worked in Vietnam before, they know what and how they should study. We like them because they have both good theoretical and practical knowledge,” the expert said.

The first group also includes the ones who studied abroad right after they finished high school. 

“They seem to be a little bit ‘impractical’ because they have spent too much time overseas. Therefore, it will take them at least 1-2 years to get adapted to Vietnamese circumstances,” he said.

The candidates, in employers’ eyes, have great potential, but they may be unreasonable in a working environment like Vietnam. 

The workers often develop impractical and unreasonable ideas and apply the knowledge they receive from foreign schools, which sometimes cannot be implemented in Vietnam.

Why are the candidates still employed? 

“This depends on the employer's vision,” the expert said. 

“This also depends on employers’ strategies, such as showing off foreign school graduates and PhDs to clients,” he added.

However, an officer of a job network noted that the candidates of this type are very intelligent; therefore, they would be very good at research works. Sometimes, their ideas can make a breakthrough in work.

“Since they are intelligent, they easily get adapted to the domestic environment,” he said.

“However, many of them go abroad again to look for jobs because they think Vietnam, with old ways of thinking, does not accept the values they have,” he continued.

Regarding the students of the second group, the labor expert noted they are mostly those who failed the domestic university entrance exams, but still wish to have higher education.

“These graduates spend most of their time eating, sleeping and playing instead of studying. What they want is a foreign bachelor’s degree, not knowledge. They would be better working at state agencies which are not too demanding,” he noted.

Van Chung