Are we talking about qualifications from the same country?!? I was responding to HKW, who said her BF was getting an accounting degree from the US. When I was in uni in the US very few people were accounting majors that didn't go on to become qualified accountants (you can't easily just pick it up later if your other plans don't work out). Similarly, regarding US law qualifications, at least 3 years of postgraduate work is required and few people undertake the time and expense required to get a law degree after college unless they actually plan to practice.
Your statement "No experience, no relative qualifications, only the ability to speak English... seriously, what do you think? He needs qualifications and experience just as a starting point." was very broad.
My point was that in some industries you do not need experience to get a work visa (law, accounting and investment banking with the right organizations just being an example of employers who can successfully get work visas for kids just out of school without real world work experience).
Also, I know several NET teachers (admittedly at second rate language centers) with very minimal experience (something like 20 classroom hours) who got jobs and visas in HK. Not the best jobs, but they did get their foot in the door.
Even as we speak, Luckycat is sitting behind his lawyering desk dreaming of being a ballerina, hoping nobody notices he's wearing a tutu. If his parents hadn't made him take a law degree he'd still be practicing his arabesque in his bedsit, waiting for that call from the Royal Ballet that we know will never come.
We thought of getting into the big 4 too..we thought it would be the easiest way for him to come to HK and at the same time continue his accounting career..but got a friend working in PwC and asked him sth abt job relocation..he said the PcW usually only relocates ABC (American-Born-Chinese) to HK..so that they can save the visa fee and solve language problems..after hearing this news..we were really defeated.
Is this situation the same in other big 4s?
our first preference will surely be him getting an accounting job in HK...but that's really hard..Off course i dont want him to waste all his efforts studying in accounting and kiss his career goodbye but at the same time..we dont wana say goodbye to our relationship bc of long-distance..so NET teacher is just a back up plan..at least this is seemingly the easiest way for him to come to HK