The International Advantage has been featured multiple times in publications such as Bloomberg, Poets & Quants, The Muse, QS Topmba, Vault, American Marketing Association, GMAC and several others. We encourage both university personnel and international students to explore the articles below.
Timing is key. This was what Maria Khalil had to say when asked how she secured a job at Jack In The Box right after graduating from Chapman University. Khalil, who hails from Lebanon, made sure that all her documents were in order for her Employment Authorization Document (EAD) as…
Some people make the job search process harder than it needs to be. Obviously it’s not their intention to make an already difficult journey any longer. But sometimes job seekers (unwittingly) do things that work against them. So, if your search has dragged on longer than you’d like, see if…
The coronavirus pandemic has caused unprecedented disruptions and damage across the world, and its grave impact has been felt acutely by international students in the United States. For the 2018-19 academic year, the U.S. saw a record number of international students, totaling 1,095,299.[1] Foreign students constitute 5.5 percent of all…
Was 2020 a tough year? For most of us I think the answer to this question is definitely “yes”. But for the international students below, maybe 2020 was not such a bad year after all, because they got noticed and hired. Without further due, meet the 10 extraordinary international students…
Written by Rynnaas Azlan , Journalist and content writer looking for new opportunities This article provides international students and laid off H-1B visa holders with job search strategies that could help them get hired fast. It is important to remember, however, that if you are an international student under the…
In the recent H-1B visa lottery, 483,927 applications were filed for only 85,000 available visas. This means that more than 80 percent of applicants wanting an H-1B visa, which allows internationals to work in the U.S., won’t get one. To reflect on this year’s H-1B lottery (which saw a 57…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
