U.S. Employment Presentation for International Students Draws Record Crowd

This January proved another record attendance for Dan Beaudry’s IAP talk, “What Every International Student/Trainee Should Know about US Employment.” Co-sponsored annually by CAPD, ISO, OGE, and the Office of the Vice President of Research, this virtual presentation remains the most popular workshop for international students each year, typically drawing 150-200 people. This year, 240 attended.

Dan Beaudry, former head of campus recruiting at Monster.com, shared the potent job search system used by many international students and trainees to find U.S. employment. H-1B’s are won in ways you likely don’t expect. Dan covered the following:

How to secure H-1B sponsorship at companies that have a policy against sponsoring H-1B visas.
Why 80 percent of open jobs are never advertised — and how to find them before anyone else.
Why human resources is often an obstacle instead of a conduit to finding a U.S. job-and how to bypass it.
Why only submitting résumés online is not the most effective use of your time-and how you can better invest that time.

Find more information about Dan Beaudry and his book, The International Student’s Guide to Finding a Job in the United States, at www.powerties.net.

— Dana Riechman, ISO