Excel Your Career With Our Top 5 Holiday Networking Tips
Dear Coach Kwan,
This is my first year in the States after the pandemic and I will be graduating soon. I know networking is important, and I heard the holiday season could be a great time to network. How can I optimize this holiday seasons in the US for networking post-pandemic?
Fall 2025 Job Search Success: CPT, OPT, H-1B & Beyond
Navigating the U.S. job market as an international student or professional can be uniquely challenging, particularly for those requiring sponsorships like H-1B visas or Green Cards.
5 Ways to Find CPT, OPT, and H-1B Jobs in 2025
Navigating the U.S. job market as an international student or professional can be uniquely challenging, particularly for those requiring sponsorships like H-1B visas or Green Cards.
Find a Summer Internship in 60 Days as an International Student
As an international student studying in the United States, you are likely looking for ways to gain experience, build your resume, and make connections in your field. One great way to achieve all of these goals is through a summer internship. However, finding the right internship can be a challenge, especially for international students who face unique obstacles.
3 Steps to Getting Referrals from Your Connections
For international students, when the traditional job search process starts to yield worse results than before, you need to find people who can advocate your abilities to your target employers. You want to get your foot in the door without stumbling through immigration question hurdles, right?
🤖 Break into Tech with a Non-Tech Background
Get Help Finding Your Dream Job in the U.S. Today: JOIN NOW Do you feel that in order for you to land a job at top tech companies in the U.S. as an international student, you need to have a degree in computer science engineering? Let me ask another question: Do you feel that you’re not good enough because you come from a non-technical background? If you are from a non-technical background but you dream of joining a top tech company like Microsoft, let’s listen to Serah’s Story about how she overcame her barriers as an international student, built her profile, and got noticed by a recruiter at Microsoft without having a tech background or an engineering degree. Follow Serah’s work on Instagram: CareerWomin (@careerwomin) • Instagram photos and videos— Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/icaway/support
Introducing “Lift as We Climb”: Mentorship for Our Community
Nobody achieves success alone. We all need communities of people to support, and who support us, to build each other up and provide unique and helpful insight. In this way, anyone can succeed. ICAway aims to support a community of international students, immigrants, and leaders who want to pay it forward.
“Lift as We Climb” Mentorship program seeks to help build students’ ability to create mentor/mentee relationships.
What Mentors Wish Their Mentees Knew
Get Help Finding Your Dream Job in the U.S. Today: JOIN NOW Most professionals who make it to the executive level cite mentoring as an important contributor to their career success. We all know having a mentor would make a difference to your career. However, do you know how to make someone want to mentor you and how to create a successful mentor-mentee relationship? Listen to our guest mentor, Steve Pae, and receive a view from the other side: A Mentor’s Perspective About Ascend, please visit https://www.ascendleadership.org/ — Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/icaway/support
Thriving during Life Transitions
It can be an overwhelming process: Moving from your home country to the US, Enrolling in an American academic program, Maintaining good grades, Finding internships, and Trying to secure a full-time job while you’re on OPT. Harpuneet came to the US from India in 2012. as a Rotary International Foreign Exchange student and graduated with High Honors from High School. She then went to Albert Dorman Honors College, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and graduated with a Business and Finance degree in May 2018. She currently works at Burgiss as a Client Service Analyst and serves as a Board Member at ALPFA’s New Jersey chapter. This path may sound like a smooth road but it is certainly not. As an international student or an immigrant who moved to a new country and wanted to accomplish something that’s bigger than ourselves, we need to thrive during our life transitions. Let’s hear from Harpuneet – how she thrived during her life transitions as an international student in the US. Review our show, please go to Apple Podcast — Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/icaway/support
Going Global as an Entrepreneur
Millennial and Gen Z entrepreneurship is growing at a faster rate. It is possibly because of the reason that Entrepreneurship is granting people more freedom along with generating more income if you do it right. However, choosing entrepreneurship is not easy and is full of difficulties. Being an entrepreneur means you are never off duty, at least until you get some success. If having your own business is one of your career goals, this episode will help you realize your potential as an international student and set the right expectations to increase your chances of success as an entrepreneur. If you like what you heard, we would appreciate it if you could Rave and Review the show. It helps people find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts. To learn more about how we’ve helped international students land jobs, please visit www.icaway.com — Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/icaway/support