On October 23, 2009
Working Abroad: Great Opportunity or Dangerous Trend?
With the unemployment rate hovering right below ten percent, desperate times can call for desperate measures. On this blog, we’ve pondered if going abroad is a positive option for grads who can’t find work at home, and the same idea has doubtless crossed the mind of many a frustrated job searcher. But does working abroad represent an opportunity for the unemployed (especially the younger job seeker without a family in tow), or the dangerous possibility of reverse brain drain that will sap the country’s intellectual capital in the long term? Or perhaps both? Two blogs weigh in. On TechCrunch Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur turned academic, weighs in with a big picture post looking at how the relatively better job prospects…
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