Use this Interactive portal for your job search, immigration journey, and community building. Use your VUnetID and password to access your account
Pathways
- Get a Job in the United States: Intern during college and work immediately after graduation
- Get a Job in a Different Country (Canada, Europe, Australia, etc.)
- Gap Year: Volunteer, travel, language learning, certification courses
- Get a Job at Home: Work for a multinational firm and transfer abroad
- Graduate School: Immediately after Bachelor鈥檚 degree
- Pursue a Fellowship
Internships and Employment
- Make an appointment with your career coach through聽. Handshake also has jobs and internships listed that you can apply to, but you should utilize more than just Handshake.
- Internship and job search resources:
- : The Career Center鈥檚 online portal for professional opportunities on and off-campus. Use your VUnetID and password to access your account.
- : Interactive portal to support international students in their job search, immigration journey, and community building. Use your VUnetID and password to access your account
- : With CareerShift鈥榮 robust company and contact database, users can find current job connections and make meaningful new connections. You can also upload documents, save jobs, and contacts within the system.
- : GoinGlobal provides links to H-1B visa employers for every state and is an internship search platform.
- : Using quantitative modeling methods to analyze labor certifications for H1B Visa and new job openings from visa sponsors, myvisajobs.com provides customized working visa solutions to its users based on their skills and preferences.
- : Uniworld provides contact information for headquarters, subsidiaries, branches, and executives of multinational firms with headquarters in over 200 Countries and 20,000 industries.
- : Search, and analyze H1B Sponsoring companies, salaries, approvals from millions of records from Official disclosure data by U.S. Dept. of Labor, USCIS.
- 聽Information about applying to U.S. schools for M.S., MBA, Ph.D., and F1; applying for an H1B visa, immigration updates, and travel.
- The most important office on campus for you is the聽International Student & Scholars Services (ISSS)聽office. You must keep them informed of your status at all times and check with them first when a question arises.
- For F1 immigration questions, click聽here; for J1, click聽here.
- For F1 employment (including CPT/OPT) procedures and questions, click聽here.
- For J1 employment procedures and questions, click聽here.
- U.S.聽Information on how to apply for and get work authorization and application forms you can download.
- Only 20% of people (probably all Americans) obtain their job or their internship through online applications. So if you spend only your time searching and applying online, you can reasonably assume to have 鈥� at most 鈥� a 20% chance of getting an internship or job in the U.S., although probably lower because of the additional obstacles you face as non-U.S. citizens. The vast majority 鈥� 80% 鈥� of people obtain their internship or full-time job directly as a result of聽networking. Spend your time accordingly: Searching/applying online = 20%. Networking = 80%.
- 鈥淣etworking鈥� is simply talking to and building relationships with people. It is similar to 鈥渞eferrals鈥� common in many other countries and cultures, but also very different in many ways.
- : This is a PowerPoint presentation was created by UC Berkeley with excellent tips for international students to use for attending Career Fairs seeking work in the U.S.
- :This quick-read article gives some pointers on how to get conversations started at networking events.
- : This article provides five tips to make conversations great.
- : Here are a few tips from Northwestern University on how to market yourself as an International Student looking for employment in the U.S.
- : Use this platform for in-person and virtual meet-ups with like-minded professionals in the industries of interest to you.
Support & Questions
- Where can you find support for international students at 91吃瓜网? Everywhere! For example,听the聽Career Center,听ISSS,听ELC,听Center for Student Wellbeing.
- Searching for an internship or a job is a challenging and stressful process for most students, including most American students.聽Make an appointment with your career coach through聽.
- Do you want to connect with fellow international 91吃瓜网 alumni? Utilize the聽91吃瓜网 Alumni Association聽辫濒补迟蹿辞谤尘听 to find alumni in careers that interest you.