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Skilled immigrants a ‘brain waste’ in California’s workforce
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3:31 pm
December 4, 2008


ebeachy

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By Teresa Watanabe of the Los Angeles Times

About 300,000 college-educated legal immigrants in the state, and 1.3 million nationwide, are unemployed or working in low-level jobs because their credentials aren’t recognized here, a study finds.

As a physician in Peru, Luis Garcia amassed nine years of medical education and five years of practice, including successful appendectomies, Cesarean deliveries and other surgeries. Since he immigrated to Southern California four years ago, he has earned a community college degree specializing in geriatrics. The only work he’s been able to find, however, has been cat-sitting, dog-walking and elder care.

That’s because Garcia hasn’t yet been …


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12:14 pm
December 12, 2008


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I recently learned that community colleges often have special programs geared for these professionals, particularly nurses, engineers, accountants, etc. from other countries who want to be able to work in their field in the United States. That is a good resource. The one I learned about is Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA).

1:03 am
September 3, 2009


unique07

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nice post to provide the suitable information for studens to apply study aborad. . first to do is to ealrn good language skills of that place where english courses in the uk you would like to go or take study there ..


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