Is it true that American companies wont recognize applicants with working experience from a foreign country?
You are very wise, indeed, to make your enquiries, rather than merely jumping in. The answer is that, in general, they won’t give your credentials and experience even the most reasonable recognition. I can’t speak of every American employer, and some, no doubt, will be found who are quite reasonable and equitable; but my own hard experience is that, if so, then they will prove extremely difficult to find. I speak as a Canadian expert of national reputation, in the fields of the law and mathematics of pension schemes and pension investments and the regulation of same by governmental bodies. About thirty years ago, I took it into my head to try my fortune in the fabled Land of Opportunity. This was a time when Canada had launched a whole new body of law reform on the subject, about twelve years previously, to protect the interests of pensioners; and every life office and pension trust had a small department of experienced people to help them navigate their way through the legal requireme
