Could you please give me some suggestions - Worked as project architect

prospie

Unfortunately, this could be a huge obstacle across the industry in general. There are people with less education and experience than you who would be favored simply because nobody wants to have to ask you to repeat yourself, nobody wants there to be any trouble with your writing a memo, etc. etc.

Thanks for your helpful advices. If I can communicate with people frequently, are there any other obstacles?

Gene Parmesan

With all the foreign money that is being invested in the United States, I would recommend looking for a job that requires speaking Mandarin or Cantonese.

Thank you for your helpful advices. Indeed there are some Chinese development companies came to US, like Vanke, Wanda. Do you have some other suggestions? If I want to be an acquisition analyst, besides english what can I study or prepare before I go to school? Thank you so much!

johnreiley

Thanks for helps in this topic

hahaha ... god, it was so hard not to post something like this. glad somebody else did it for me.

TeddyTheBear

Outside of language, the bigger issue I would see is your experience. Development in China isn't like what it is in the U.S. In China, developers will build multimillion dollar projects without batting an eye at the market. Hence, all those ghost cities that exist. In U.S., the criteria is way different. I know this from personal experience, we had a mid level VP who worked for a chinese developer. He had no sense of a good market, and would think any open area is a good place to develop. Examples include building apartments near railroads, oil refineries. His mentality was different and people constantly disagreed with him. His philosphy was that if you build it, it will get occupied regardless of location.

you're right. In the past 20 years, a developer can make much money without a sense of market. You can make money anywhere you develop housing. But such a situation can no longer exist. That's why I want to learn something like analysis and management in US.

pe_re24

I let a kid go once that sounds very similar to you. He was a financial guru, but he never improved at speaking or writing while he worked for us, even though we asked. Try to find someone that speaks English and talk with them on a regular basis, study it, watch American movies, etc. Your company is going to want someone who is able to carry the flag and represent them well. You'll be on the phone, writing emails, investment memos, meeting face to face consistently. This is why we learn to read, write, and talk before any type of real estate knowledge. It's the building blocks of everything. Your current attributes may get you an analyst job, but you'll never move up after that.

so the most important thing is to improve my english. I still have plenty of time before I graduate.