Author: Marcelo Barros
6 Options for International Students Who Didn’t Win the H-1B Lottery

Another H-1B lottery season has come to an end. This year, the number of applications far exceeded the 85,000 allotted H-1Bs, the visas international students typically need to work in the U.S. after graduation. This means that, yet again, numerous students who wanted H-1Bs won’t get them. However, all is…
3 Essential Job-Search Strategies for International Students in 2021

To say the least, the Trump administration didn’t extend a warm welcome to international students at U.S. colleges and universities. Will the Biden administration be more welcoming? Will international students have a better chance of securing H-1B visas? Will they have an easier time landing jobs and internships with U.S.…
How Trump’s Executive Order Halting H-1B Visas Affects International Students and Big Tech

On June 22, President Trump signed an executive order temporarily freezing various work visas, including the highly coveted H-1B visas sought by international students looking to work in the U.S. after graduation. To better understand the executive order’s potential impact on the international student community, Vault again reached out to…
9 Ways International Students Can Build Job-Search Muscle This Fall

The bad news for international students looking to work in the U.S. after graduation is employers are clearly in the driver’s seat. When a job opening hits the Internet, employers are typically flooded with hundreds of resumes, giving them several strong candidates to choose from. The good news is international…
9 Things International Students Can Do to Stand Out at Career Fairs and Conferences

International students often feel like career fairs are a waste of time and money. The reason for such disappointment is that, historically, the majority of companies participating at these events don’t sponsor international students and therefore aren’t willing to speak with them. The good news is there are still several…
Is the Rise in H-1B Petitions from U.S. Employers a Good Sign for International Students?
3 Simple Networking Tips for International Students That Generate Results

On-campus recruiting at U.S. universities is typically slower this time of the year versus the fall. For international students, in particular, opportunities to interview with firms that sponsor might be scarce between now and graduation. So what’s a student to do? The answer is smart outreach. And to do that,…
4 Options for International Students Who Don’t Win the H-1B Visa Lottery

This is the time of the year when employers start to get back to international students who weren’t selected in the H-1B visa lottery. This year, the U.S. government received 201,001 H-1B applications for a possible 85,000 visas. This means that, unfortunately, thousands of students across the U.S. will hear…
9 Job Search Tips for International Students in the Age of Coronavirus

As if the job search climate hadn’t been tough enough for international students since President Trump enacted the “Buy American and Hire American” executive order in April 2017, now international students are forced to watch the hiring pace of the U.S. firms rapidly decrease due to the spread of Covid-19.…