Read this sample IELTS Band 7 Essay about careers and migration.
Sample Question
Some people believe that professionals such as doctors and engineers should be required to work in the country where they did their training. Others believe they should be free to work in another country if they wish. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
Sample Band 7 Essay
There are two points of view about if professional workers must live and work in the country they come from or can go and work in another country. In this essay, I will write about these two points of view. In my view, professionals like doctors and engineers need to stay and help their countries for a few years.
Many people think that young doctors and engineers must continue to live and work in their countries because usually governments have paid for their studies. As a result, these people should pay that back by working to help their countries in the future. Also, developing countries need as many people as possible to work, especially in hospitals and schools and so on. So, a country should not lose talented graduates to other countries, for example, doctors and nurses going to work in the UK.
On the other hand, others think that anyone can decide where to work or live, then after many years studying to become a professional, he or she will have a choice to go to another place to live, it is a good idea. Maybe the doctor or engineer will obtain more salary or study more in another country. Also, many people like office workers, construction workers and even football players can go anywhere they want, so why not doctors, engineers and other professions?
There are two points of view, one in favour, one against. In my opinion, professions such as medicine and engineering and education too, have the obligation to help their societies and one way to make that is to work for the state after they graduate. One idea is to fix a limit of, for example, three years´ work in a national hospital before a person can work in another place.
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