At Stetson University, we understand that bringing your student to an American university may be part of a bigger plan. Your goals may include enabling your student to gain work experience in the U.S. after graduation, or perhaps giving your student the opportunity to develop a prosperous career in the U.S.
If this is your case, the process to gain employment starts today.
Parents:
Ideally, you are reading this message while your student is a first-year student, sophomore, or junior, because gaining employment in the U.S. requires significant time and effort.
The first action we recommend is to get an immigration attorney as soon as possible – even if this is your student’s first year. A good attorney will assess your student’s profile and determine the most viable employment/immigration strategy. An attorney may even help your student develop a profile that is more favorable for employers and immigration officers.
Understand that most international students gain employment in the U.S. through networking. For this reason, we strongly advise students to focus their job-seeking efforts on developing a professional network, instead of submitting work applications online.
Stetson University is the first higher education institution in the U.S. to implement Konkeros. Konkeros is the most powerful tool your student could use to find a job in the U.S.. The site includes a business ranking system, which can be used to find and rank all the companies most likely to hire your student. This platform provides a viability score to help your student rank prospective employers,. The score indicates which companies are more likely to hire your student based on your student’s profile and historical company data.
Stetson will also give international families, at no additional cost, a book entitled “Konkeros 2018: An International Student’s Guide to Finding Employment in the U.S.” This cutting-edge book describes in detail the process to gain employment in the U.S. The book will be available in the fall 2017.
Lou Paris
Instructor of International Business and New Venture Creation
Assistant Director, Prince Entrepeneurship Program
For more, see International Student Success Initiative.