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Get Help Finding Your Dream Job in the U.S. Today:  Join ICAway Coaching Program Did you know that the average job opening attracts 250 resumes? And that only 2% of applicants will be called for an interview? It’s hard to get results when applying for jobs online! In this episode, we want to help you increase your chances of getting job interviews. Our guest mentor today is Brian Fink, a Seni...

Get Help Finding Your Dream Job in the U.S. Today:  Join ICAway Coaching Program Personal branding is not exclusive to professionals in a leadership role. It is a tool that everyone should engage to help solidify their career, especially young professionals. Personal branding can help you in so many ways - not only to find your first job but also to pave your way on a fast track to success in...

Get Help Finding Your Dream Job in the U.S. Today:  Join ICAway Coaching Program The ability to work with people having diverse values and cultures is extremely important. As an international student or immigrant in the U.S., you may be looking for an inclusive workplace Where people acknowledge your differences and know that your uniqueness will contribute to the organization’s culture and b...

Get Help Finding Your Dream Job in the U.S. Today:  Join ICAway Coaching Program Adapting to a new culture is easier said than done. The Fear of rejection is real. How can we handle it? Our guest mentor today is Dr. Andrew Woods He is an adjunct professor at EMLYON business school in Shanghai, China and an adjunct faculty member at the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Canada. Dr. W...

Get Help Finding Your Dream Job in the U.S. Today:  Join ICAway Coaching Program 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-tec...

Get Help Finding Your Dream Job in the U.S. Today:  Join ICAway Coaching Program 55% Of America's Billion-Dollar Startups Have An Immigrant Founder. Immigrant entrepreneurs have long been an important part of America's economic success story. Unfortunately, Starting a business as an international student in the US is not that easy as visa requirements are complex. Our guest mentor on this epi...

Get Help Finding Your Dream Job in the U.S. Today:  Join ICAway Coaching Program It is not easy to network with people or interview for a job as you are from another culture. Differences in cultural values and expectations can have a huge influence on how a candidates’ skills and experience are interpreted. Our guest mentor in this episode is Nii Ato Bentsi-Enchill - a holistic career coach f...

Get Help Finding Your Dream Job in the U.S. Today:  Join ICAway Coaching Program “𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒕" "𝑵𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇.” - Victor Garcia, a recent graduate from University of Houston, C.T. Bauer College of Business . He is currently pursuing his dream role as an analyst at Deloitte consulting. 🗽First-generation students of immigrant fami...

Get Help Finding Your Dream Job in the U.S. Today:  Join ICAway Coaching Program If you were an international Student seeking H1B in 2021, your overall chance of getting selected for H1B cap employment was only 31% Because of this, many students have started considering Canada’s easier system as a backup plan. But, is it easier for international students to get a job in Canada? In this episod...

Get Help Finding Your Dream Job in the U.S. Today:  Join ICAway Coaching Program You have big dreams that you will land a good job. But when you move to a different country, you may run into a lot of naysayers -someone who thinks that you are joking and says “It’s impossible!” Our guest mentor in the Meet the Mentor Podcast for International Students is a Career Strategist and the Founder of...

Get Help Finding Your Dream Job in the U.S. Today:  Join ICAway Coaching Program Ponsi Trivisvavet, a former international student from Asia, is highly recognized as the leader in AgriBusiness in the US. She is currently the CEO of Inari, the SEEDesign™ company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Within 3 years of her leadership at Inari, the organization has grown fivefold and has rai...

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, to receive a view from the other side: A Mentor's Pe...

Get Help Finding Your Dream Job in the U.S. Today:  Join ICAway Coaching Program Coming to the U.S. for your new life as an international student 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 in Corporate America while...

Get Help Finding Your Dream Job in the U.S. Today:  Join ICAway Coaching Program Everything that has happened, happens for a reason This doesn’t mean that we don’t have control of our destiny but it means we have control over our mindset and life that we want to have after any traumatic event or disappointments in life.  Namit Khurana is a former international student from India. He grad...

Get Help Finding Your Dream Job in the U.S. Today:  Join ICAway Coaching Program Every year, thousands of students from India leave their home country to fulfill their dreams of studying abroad. Studying in the US allows students to seek employment during and after Graduation with their CPT and OPT. However, going through that immigration pathway is not easy. In this episode, Vinod and Coach...

Get Help Finding Your Dream Job in the U.S. Today:  Join ICAway Coaching Program If you dream to join big tech companies, you may find yourself running into obstacles to achieving that goal. Did you know that, in 2019, one of the FAANG companies received around 3.3 million job applications and a candidate has only a 0.2% chance of getting hired? In this episode, Amit and I will talk about str...

Get Help Finding Your Dream Job in the U.S. Today:  Join ICAway Coaching Program 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 mean...

Get Help Finding Your Dream Job in the U.S. Today:  Join ICAway Coaching Program We understand how challenging it is for so many people when they need to step outside of their comfort zone; for example; as an international student, the idea of starting networking with American professionals that you’ve never met before must make you feel very nervous.  In this podcast episode, Coach Kwan...

Get Help Finding Your Dream Job in the U.S. Today:   JOIN NOW Having an accent has always been the main barrier to Career development for many of us who were not born and raised in an English-speaking country. From a psychological research from Wharton , it revealed that non-native speakers of English are perceived as having weak political skills — which is considered essential for career suc...

You can listen to the latest episodes of the Meet the Mentor on Apple Podcasts, Spotify , Google Podcasts , or on ICAway.com/podcast Robina Singh, a National Director at Ascend, is sitting with Coach Kwan Segal, Founder & CEO of ICAway, to discuss why mentors are needed for professional success, especially for International Students who are here in the US and want to find jobs in the future. S...

You can listen to the latest episodes of the Meet the Mentor on Apple Podcasts, Spotify , Google Podcasts , or on ICAway.com/podcast The class of 2020 now faces a challenging situation due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Job postings have dropped more than 40% nationally and The total number of job losses for the month of April alone was more than double the total jobs lost during the Great R...

You can listen to the latest episodes of the Meet the Mentor on Apple Podcasts, Spotify , Google Podcasts , or on ICAway.com/podcast Employment is one of the main reasons that International Students choose to pursue their education in the US. The class of 2020 now faces a challenging situation due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The unemployment rate has already jumped more in one month than...

You can listen to the latest episodes of the Meet the Mentor on Apple Podcasts, Spotify , Google Podcasts , or on ICAway.com/podcast ICAway guest mentor in this episode is Angela Jiang, a professional services director at one of the Big 4 Accounting firms. Angela has over 13+ years of experience in audit, controls, risk management, and compliance. She is a former international student herself and...

You can listen to the latest episodes of the Meet the Mentor on Apple Podcasts, Spotify , Google Podcasts , or on ICAway.com/podcast This episode is designed to help our International Students who plan to stay in the US as long as possible. If that's your plan, you need to think beyond an OPT. Here are a few examples of questions we walked through with Attorney Art Serratelli in this episode: 😕😕...

Get Help Finding Your Dream Job in the U.S. Today:  Learn More When should I apply for the OPT? What should be the start date? I'm not sure if I can get a job within that 90-day allowance timeline, what should I do? What are the common errors that lead to OPT denial? What should I watch out for? At this time, many international students are now preparing for a summer internship or a full-time...