Foreigners share their thoughts on career transition in China

Speakers: Sam Duckett and Lu Sirui

A foreigner is updating her visa in China. [Photo: from Baidu.com]

When Ethan Scott, a 35-year-old Canadian, came to Beijing two years ago, he quickly found himself a job as an English teacher at a local English language training school, but he had no intention of doing it for a long time.

As a financial professional, he hoped to locate himself in the Chinese financial sector and gradually gravitated toward jobs that could help him along his career path.

Similar to Scott, there are a good number of foreigners who start off teaching English when they arrive in China and would like or have finished a career transition from teaching English to jobs that are more in line with their career and educational background. However, visa and language issues make transitioning a formidable task for many of them.

The audio clip is from Studio+, produced by CRI.