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…
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.…
Last year was a mixed one for international students looking for jobs in the U.S. One the one hand, even the simple process of securing work authorization through OPT (Optional Practical Training) proved to be complicated—and in some cases, increased processing time by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services caused…
With graduation fast approaching at universities across the country, many international students will be entering the U.S workforce for the first time. If you’re one of these students, you might have a fair amount of anxiety around joining the U.S workforce, especially if you’re not used to working with Americans.…
The International Advantage program recently sat down with Devi Prasad Gorrepati – international student from India – after learning that he landed a job. It is rare for us to proactively contact international students to learn about their job search journeys. To be honest these stories naturally reach us one way…
