Employability of International Students in Australia

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Table of Contents
Introduction.............................................................................................................2
Topic Identification..................................................................................................2
Problem definition...................................................................................................3
Research Question.................................................................................................3
Topic approval........................................................................................................4
Team Charter..........................................................................................................4
Literature Review....................................................................................................4
Methodology...........................................................................................................7
Conclusion..............................................................................................................8
Reference:..............................................................................................................9
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Introduction
The aim of this report is to provide a reflective account of the various stages in
the business project that has been executed by me along with other teammates.
The business project has contributed immensely to personal learning processes
and experiences. The reflective journal has been contributed to the students and
the learning is co-operation of the team in the different phases of the business
research project. This project is analyzed with the topic selection, problem
identification, topic approval, literature review, and methodology.
Being an Australian the research has been conducted by me where I mainly
focus on the least number of students getting a job and the main reasons are the
language barriers, culture barriers and inexperienced (Andrade 2006). Its only
34% of the people of foreign origin are getting jobs in Australia so there is a huge
gap in terms of passed outs and employed people in Australia. The international
students are completing their studies in a country like Australia, the USA and
achieve the degree successfully but it is being difficult for finding employment in
Australia.
Topic Identification
The topic that I have selected for the research is the employability of International
Students in Australia. This topic has always been a constant thought in my
subconscious mind. I have observed that students are eager to immigrate to
different countries for higher studies and getting a better job placement. Student's
preferable destinations are America, Australia, Germany, UK, Japan, and France
and so on. The students are completing courses successfully and achieving
degrees but the employability of the international student’s remains in the
question (Akanwa 2015).There is a huge gap in the Australian economy itself
which makes such a vast difference between the graduates and the employment
opportunities. The nation took this sector of education as a source of foreign
earnings without much to do in terms of industry developments which would give
it the needful place for a job in the same economy. The gap is huge and is
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expanding. So this makes the study important for me to understand the problems
and address them to resolve the issue since it would have its effects on the
foreign remittances that are flowing in.
Problem definition
According to the research findings a study reports that the international student
though completing the higher studies in Australia but getting the job a few among
them, as I found. This made the contribution of my topic selection well done since
problems on which the research was made were made clear. The ratio is fallen
from 23001 to 2017 by 120 percent which is about 4.6 million students who are
unemployed in the country. The country hardly represents current statistics in the
21st century about the number of successfully international students can get jobs
in Australia. The country has states some issues for not getting the job of
international students which has been collected from the research that are
cultural differences, language barriers and being inexperienced (Tran and
Gomes 2017). The country has a Visa problem for international students. The
Australian Government has produces 485 visa for living in the country and full
time work for eighteen months only. The job website like Indeed has declared
that the permanent resident of Australia would be able to get the job. So the
international students are suffering and the international markets. However, there
is a lack of study where it clearly points out to the international graduates and
their employment in the business making it a great way to serve the cause of
international students in getting a proper job post graduations. Now, it is
important to understand why the employment of foreign students are so low in
the nation and the kind of future that would give this situation in the long term.
Further, the topic identification is important to understand what the future is going
to be for a solution in the process.
Research Question
While I was researching the problems which had been held with the studies
related to employment issues of international students. My research asks for the
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