choosing between France or USA available jobs for International students?
I have been to USA for one year in California .there were not much job openings off campus. France sounds pretty attractive because I can work anywhere not constraint to the campus. so please if anybody has any tips of jobs available for students in France or in EUROPE compared TO USA.
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As a student you may work anywhere within reasonable travelling distance from where you are studying in Europe , but you are limited as to the amount of hours that you are allowed to work during term time. However you have to be accepted well ahead of the next academic year by an educational establishment that will support your visa application, and you have to satisfy the demands of the course otherwise you are thrown out without qualification and either the opportunity to repeat the year or to renew your visa. The visa is usually tailored to the academic year which means you have to leave at the end of term and have no opportunity to earn more money by working longer hours in the summer. Things in Europe are very difficult at the moment. Severe cut backs have had to be put in place to try to balance the national budgets after the great banking gamble, and the recession has bitten deep. There are almost daily demonstrations. In France things have been particularly hard on the job front and it is extremely difficult to find work. Many people have been made redundant, even in lowly positions, and others are hanging on to menial jobs which they dislike but have no choice but to keep as otherwise they would be unemployed and unable to support themselves. A bird in the hand.... Just as in the USA you may have to travel a long way from your digs if you manage to find a job, which is by no means certain, particularly if you do not speak the language. Given a choice between a citizen of their country or one from overseas who does not speak the local language fluently, prospective European employers will give priority to a national of their country or a to a student from within the EU who does. The cost of living in France at the moment is eye watering. Even basic foods which were affordable have rocketed in price and accommodation is not easy to find, especially if you are going to a university town where hundreds of students are chasing digs at a moderate price. The US campus system has its merits since at least you have accommodation. Temperatures in Europe are generally well below those of California and, depending on where you go, are downright freezing in the winter, and heating is costly. Tuition in France is more rigid than in the USA and the majority of subjects are taught in French, unless you attend the American University in Paris which is very expensive. Main cities are more expensive to live in and Paris in particular.The accommodation to be found there at an affordable price is mostly in downright shabby areas and you have to travel, whichever way you look at it, either to your place of study or to your place of work if you have found a part-time position.
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