H1B for marketing engineeers?

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Ivan

Hello people!

I would like to ask you and especially the recruiters what is the chance for me to find a job in US or UK.

I work in Bulgaria as a Product Marketing engineer for a renowned International Industrial automation vendor. I speak good English and Russian language, and I wonder if visas for Electrical Engineers are issued only to R&D specialists and is there a lack of engineers also in the marketing field?

I suppose things are very bad because of the recession but I can assure you it is even worse where I live.

thank you for the comments.

Ivan
 
HI All

The South African government tries very hard at present to attract qualified personnel due to the brain drain caused by the political situation here.

Our engineering industry doesn't exactly fit the description of a tea party, but there is work enough if you are tough enough.

Regards
Donald Pittendrigh
 
Sir:

In my area, I would guess that your chances are slim to nil. I live in Michigan and unemployment in the industrial trades is very high here. I
have been looking for employment for almost 10 months now and have not been able to break thru anywhere (and I have 10+ years experience).
There are a LOT of unemployed engineers around here and they are all looking for work too.

If I were you, I would strongly consider a career change - the industrial field here is dying a slow and painful death.

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Ron Gage - Saginaw, Michigan
I am looking for work - resume at http://www.rongage.org/resume.doc
Electrical Engineering, Linux Programming, Networking
 
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Ranjan Acharya

The sky has not fallen in yet.

I (fondly?) remember the transition the UK went through in the 1970s and 1980s as many manufacturing jobs disappeared. Some people in their 40s and 50s would simply never find work again as they left their (over paid according to many measures) jobs at British Leyland (the British built cars other than the Mini once, remember? - even motorbikes too, but I won't go that far), British Steel (they actually re-built themselves as a profitable publicly-traded company, but I can remember watching a news programme where in the background a ticker ran how much money the then state-owned steel maker was losing per minute) and so on.

Things are not necessarily brilliant for those still in the UK, and by all accounts perhaps some manufacturing jobs are going through the same adjustment in the US. Good macro-economic management (sorely lacking right now, in my opinion) would assist those in transition, however, the US workforce suffers from a disadvantage due to a "distrust" of government that stymies state-funded initiatives and results in things like really awful dole payments and so on (six weeks maternity leave in the US compared with several years in some European countries for example) and perhaps even a pervasive "damn you I'm all right Jack" attitude. I'm no blazing red or something, but if you are already running a massive deficit and you are a net debtor nation then a few pennies in aid to some entrepreneurs would not really hurt.

Also for those in the border states, have you looked across to Canada? No we don't have a President, and yes the Queen is the Head of State, but our economy made 55K jobs last month. A temporary job "overseas" is better than nothing.

RA
 
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Curt Wuollet

I had considered working in Canada during my recent long vacation. It seemed extremely difficult to connect with employers and most seemed to want some sort of license or
certification. Is there a "secret market"?

Regards

cww
 
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Ralph Mackiewicz

> Good macro-economic management (sorely lacking right now, in my
> opinion) would assist those in transition, however, the US
> workforce suffers from a disadvantage due to a "distrust" of
> government that stymies state-funded initiatives and results in
> things like really awful dole payments and so on (six weeks
> maternity leave in the US compared with several years in some
> European countries for example) and perhaps even a pervasive "damn
> you I'm all right Jack" attitude. I'm no blazing red or something,
> but if you are already running a massive deficit and you are a net
> debtor nation then a few pennies in aid to some entrepreneurs would
> not really hurt.

Puhleeasse!! (Just remember you started it.) What balderdash. I defy anyone to demonstrate how giving a "few pennies" in aid to entrepreneurs will solve any problems related to structural realingnment in industrial automation.

But wait...I understand now. If we just didn't distrust the government they would give us lots of shiny new pennies. Then we can even hire more people. Then it wouldn't matter whether or not anybody actually needed the services that we want to provide. At least everybody would have a job. I get it. Where do I sign up to get my money? I'm ready to trust government. Please help.

Regards,
Ralph Mackiewicz
 
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Bob Peterson

Canucks are more obsessed with such things. If the PEs have their way, we will be doing the same thing here. Its a matter of market share. They have not been able to gain market share by any other means, so they use the coercive powers of government to force you to hire only properly licensed, certified, or otherwise acceptable engineers.

Bob Peterson
 
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Ranjan Acharya

If you are looking to move north, then I would imagine that it is not really that difficult, look for recruiting agencies on the web who specialise in your neighbour to the north might be a good start. After that, an immigration specialist will help you with the rest.

Alternatively, you can sell your services directly (in US$ or CA$) - again, I don't know the mechanisms of this but since there are lots of US suppliers of both hard goods and services, I am sure that it is not that difficult.

The recent North American Free Trade Agreement makes it quite straightforwards to go back and forth (just how easy depends on your qualifications). Talk to a solicitor or lawyer who specialises in cross-border trade to make sure that you have the right paperwork.

It isn't paradise up here and we have recessions too.

RA
 
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Donald Pittendrigh

Hi All

I Don't really understand this thread, I am sure in the US your industrial plants break, get upgraded, get expanded, modernized, modified and so on and so on and so on. I firstly do not believe industrial automation can die in your country unless all the machines are stopped, and I also don't believe that there is no industrial development going on, that the last factory and machines you will ever need have been built. If I am correct how on earth can there be no work?

Government handouts, well in my country basically the harder you work the more money you make, the government is an (often indiscriminate) user of money, they can't hand anything out unless they get it from us first.

Donald P
 
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