What are the top immigrant jobs these days?
Did you know 1 in 30 people is an immigrant? Yep, according to WorldMigrationReport. And since Labor Day is knock, knock, knocking on Heaven’s door, we’ll be digging deeper into the real situation today and the recent past. Also, we’ll look at the immigrant jobs available today, and the role of the pandemic in that. But also how expats managed to keep the unemployment rate low, just like before the pandemic.
But first, let’s consider one important fact. Immigrants are a vital part of the U.S. workforce, and not only U.S. No doubt about that, but many sources also support the fact with figures. We won’t get into details, but that’s important to be aware of for the sake of reality and our MobileRecharge fans, most of them expats worldwide.
Expats adapted fantastically during the pandemic
In 2020 Education and Hospitality were top choices and opportunities for expats, but the pandemic hit hard the hospitality field and therefore that also affected expats. Many of them had to change careers. What a challenge, despite the lockdown and all the threats of a new world case. So, let’s take the pulse today!
Besides the pandemic consequences in hospitality where many expats were active, changing career paths seemed a doable solution for immigrants. The high skilled foreign talent having occupations that could perform remotely were covered. The others had to recalibrate destiny fast. And expats have the experience and skills to adapt to new conditions. It’s part of the expat resume.
The unemployment rate has not changed due to the pandemic. What does this say?
So, immigrants adapted and kept the unemployment rate low. A recent analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies shows that the unemployment rate of 4% for immigrants “in the first quarter of 2022 is similar to what it was before Covid-19”.
Source: https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/2022/may/immigrant-unemployment-patterns-pandemic
The pandemic and lockdowns also impacted some industries more severely than others. Immigrants and the native-born differ not only in terms of occupation, but also industry: prior to the pandemic, immigrants were disproportionately represented in sectors especially impacted by lockdowns, such as the hospitality sector (31% immigrant in Canada and 25% immigrant in the EU28), as well as security and cleaning services (30% in Canada and 21% in the EU28) [1]. US immigrants were around 45% more likely than native-born workers to work in the restaurant industry, which suffered significantly from the pandemic and lockdowns, while immigrants were, for instance, underrepresented in the elementary and secondary school industry which, though schooling was heavily disrupted by the pandemic, did not experience a reduction in employment. However, immigrants were overrepresented in the agricultural sector, which similarly did not experience a reduction in employment. Immigrant workers in the EU tended to work in industries considered more “essential” during the pandemic, which to some extent insulated them from job loss [5], [8]. (“The labor market impact of Covid-19 on immigrants”, Hugh Cassidy, Kansas State University, USA)
No employment gap?
The labor market disruptions due to the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns impacted everyone, and immigrants more severely since many were engaged in fields where remote work was impossible. Yet, expat workers in the US, Canada, Australia, and EU recovered fast. And in the fall of 2020, “the employment gaps between immigrant and native-born workers, both for men and women, had returned to pre-pandemic levels” as shown in Hugh Cassidy’s article in wol.iza.org. In his article, the journalist also observes something we find comforting and respectful: “No evidence of racial bias in employment loss due to the pandemic was observed in the US.”
“Expats only”
When you see “expats only” in a jooble ad, that makes you draw the conclusion expats have some unique qualities required on the current labor market, which makes us from MobileRecharge.com (expat service) super proud. Not only endurance and people skills, but also international experience. And we can see a growth in immigrant jobs in international cost support or taxation, within international companies or businesses with international operations.
Big demand
In case you’re part of this community in the USA and want to see the expat jobs available in real-time, this link is most useful.
Going back to 2020, it’s obvious that Education and Hospitality were top choices and opportunities for expats. But once the pandemic hit hard the hospitality field that affected expats, as shown above. Many of the immigrants had to change careers. Expats in the USA are underrepresented in Education, but Asian countries are looking for foreign teachers. Which makes it easy for foreigners speaking English to find announcements such as “class teacher” in China and Thailand. To give you an example, 11 immigrant jobs of this type are only on one Jooble page alone.
Employment trends
Another employment opportunity in the USA, Canada, and Australia is engineering, in different domains.
Nursing and cleaning stay high on the list of immigrant jobs available worldwide. The market is very open to therapists, marketers, interpreters, financial analysts, building workers and supervisors, livestreamers, customer support reps, global controllers, sales persons, HR specialists, international accountants, recruiters, and some more popular immigrant jobs.
Forbes shared a report compiled by Indeed.com in 2017. Interesting enough, it is still relevant to point out the expat employment trends: computer and petroleum engineers, dishwashers, agricultural workers, personal appearance workers, market researchers, scientists, software and system developers, Here is the gallery that explains it all well.
A phenomenon thanks to the pandemic
We’ll add the it to our pandemic service improvement. And when it comes to job opportunities to a wow list. A nice phenomenon we’ve seen worldwide is that delivery jobs are growing super fast, welcoming immigrants as well.
Overall employment of delivery truck drivers and driver/sales workers is projected to grow 12 percent from 2020 to 2030, faster than the average for all occupations. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Forbes shared a report compiled by Indeed.com in 2017. Interesting enough, it is still relevant to point out the expat employment trends: computer and petroleum engineers, dishwashers, agricultural workers, personal appearance workers, market researchers, scientists, software and system developers, Here is the gallery that explains it all well.
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