Optimism creeps into US jobs market for college grads

College moms are not often looked to as prognosticators of the U.S. labour market. But experts say O’Leary is right. America’s employment picture has begun to look brighter for new college graduates in a small number of fields.

It is the first upswing in hiring for graduates in two years, according to Michigan State University’s Collegiate Employment Research Institute, or CERI, which has been tracking college job placements for four decades.

That is encouraging news for young job seekers, given the sky-high 9.1% U.S. unemployment rate.

But experts caution against full-blown optimism. The opportunities are limited to a narrow range of service industry majors: accounting, finance, economics, marketing, human resources and information technology.

Students in other fields are not proving so lucky, with liberal arts majors faring worst.

“Most majors don’t lead to a defined labor market outcome. Actually for about 70 percent of majors, we don’t have a direct connection,” said CERI director Phil Gardner.

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Improvement has taken shape at the bottom of a deep employment hole left by the recession and economic uncertainty that continues to stifle any concrete sign of a broader jobs market recovery.

“Organizations are still tentative about hiring. So it’s very competitive,” said independent career counselor Dan King.

Employment gains for some graduates also mask a worrying problem of rising college dropout rates among students of low to moderate income. That phenomenon makes some analysts worry about the United States’ ability to compete long term with global rivals like China and India.

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If you are looking to move your nursing abroad to the United States of America, then now is the time to do it. Hospitals in the USA are experiencing a staffing crisis, and this crisis is predicted to become worse over the next decade.

The nursing shortage in the USA is said to be caused by the many factors. On one hand there are many nurses reaching retirement age or choosing to retire early, and there simply aren’t enough newly graduated nurses to fill all the gaps. And there is more strain being placed on existing medical staff because of the bubble of baby boomers reaching retirement.

This is great news for internationally educated nurses because they can now find nursing positions in US hospitals with ease. Hospital administrators are aggressively recruiting foreign nurses.

To nurse in the US, legally, there are many papers to fill out and different states have different rules. In order to qualify to register as a nurse in any state in the US you must meet the following criteria:

* undertaken post high school nursing education. This means you must have graduated high school and then gone on to do your nursing qualification afterwards.

* be a registered nurse or hold a license to nurse at home. This means that you are legally allowed to practice nursing in the country where you trained or the country where you currently live.

* have 1 year experience nursing in your specialty. If you aren’t a specialist nurse in, for example, paediatric nursing, psychiatric nursing, neo natal nursing, etc, your specialty would be as an adult nurse.

* be able to communicate clearly in English. If English is not your first language, you will be required to provide evidence of your ability to communicate to the required standard. This means that you’ll have to take an English language test in speaking, reading, writing and listening.

Should you meet these 4 critical pre-application criteria, you can be assured that you’re a good candidate for getting a nursing job in the United States.

There are three visa options for nurses who want to work in the US.

Firstly you can apply for the much coveted Green Card. In order to qualify for a Green Card, you must meet all the criteria above, and sit and pass the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS) examination. To get this visa takes the longest of the three options, but it is the better option for you if you want to make a long term move to the US. It is possible, with a Green Card, to move your nursing career to the US permanently.

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