When the best job Mikala Reasbeck could find after college in Boston was counting pills part-time in a drugstore for $7 an hour, she took the drastic step of jumping on a plane to Beijing in February to look for work.
A week after she started looking, the 23-year-old from Wheeling, West Virginia, had a full-time job teaching English.
"I applied for jobs all over the US. There just weren't any," said Reasbeck, who speaks no Chinese but volunteered at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In China, she said: "The jobs are so easy to find. And there are so many."

Why cold-calling is the wrong move and other advice so you can be on the radar of a top executive search firm. If you're already getting the occasional call from a headhunter trying to lure you to a new management opportunity, congratulations: You're obviously doing something right.

China is expected to lead the global aviation recovery thanks to its dynamic domestic air travel, senior executives from Boeing said yesterday.
The country will require 3,770 new airplanes valued at $400 billion over the next 20 years and will remain the world's largest commercial airplane market outside the United States, said Randy Tinseth, Boeing Commercial Airplanes' vice-president for marketing.