If you need to leave the workshop feel free to do so. And you can reach back out to me after this workshop to ask for a copy of the recording. And unofficially, I think this is part two of the job search for non-academic positions. So there was another workshop happened two weeks ago that was focusing more on the how and kind of the different steps that you need to take on this journey. And today this workshop will mainly focus on the resources, like different platforms and websites and things that will actually help get you to different job postings and also things that you need to know in this journey. And so, yeah, stay tuned. So we're going to dive into our workshop now. My name is Caleb Yu. I am the graduate student and international student career advisor from the Career Services. And I'm just going to let my colleague Christine introduce herself. And I'm Christine Holmes, I'm the Director of postdoctoral studies here at Cornell and I work in the graduate school. I also wanted to mention that if you have any questions, you can put them in chat. Or if you have a question and you would rather send it directly to me, you can do that also. If you want to send it directly to me, I will look at the question as we're speaking. Yeah. So whoever is not presenting at the moment, you can direct message us. So we can get to your question later. So let's take a look at what are we going to talk about? So we're going to talk about mainly three things. So number one, employment options for positions in the US, for students and postdocs. And then number two is the employment options outside of the US. And third thing we're going to look at are tips and also some additional things that you need to consider when you're looking for careers outside of academia. And then at the end, we're going to have some time for you to ask questions. Okay? So when we think about employment options after your grad school or after your postdoc. There are just a couple general kinda directions. Find a position in the US, regardless, well, and our contacts will be specifically for positions outside of academia. And then, or find a position outside of the US. And that's not including your home country if you're international students. And the third option, if you're an international student or post-doc as well, there'll be returning home or returning to your home country. And so just quickly, I'm going to launch a poll here. If you can indicate which option are you currently considering at this point. Or there will be one that's undecided. If you're undecided, feel free to go with that as well. So that we can get a sense of like how many people are considering what. Ok so we're going to give it maybe another five more seconds for some other folks to do the poll here. But we got a good group of people who responded. That's great. So I'm just going to stop right here and then share the results with everyone. So quite a few of us here decided, well, wants to plan to find a job in the US, and some are interested in careers outside of the US but not in their home country. Some decided to go home and we got a few more students or, or scholars here that are undecided, which is totally fine. And hopefully after the workshop today, it'll provide you some resources or platforms or websites or tools for you to do more exploration. And then eventually get to the kind of decision that you're looking for a job here in the US or somewhere else. Okay? So let's just take a look at option one, which is finding a position in the US. But before you start, kind of dive right into, okay, look for positions. There's something that we encourage you to do and this is something that we sort of spoke on a little bit more in our workshop two weeks ago, which is, I think you want to spend some time to really understand yourself. And that includes like, understand your skills, understand your interests, understand your value. And these things will guide you in the exploration process and to really help you focus on the things that would be a good fit for you. And then it's also good to understand your career goals, to really understand, okay, how many goals do I have? Is that too many goals or okay, now if I know that I have these general two goals, two directions I want to go. Then let me focus on resources or positions are available in these two directions. But also know, it's also good to understand yourself so that you know how to talk about your qualifications in languages, in a language that people in your desired field can understand and appreciate. That, we're mainly talking about how do you talk about some of the transferable skills that you have and then have this ability to communicate to a non-technical audience. So that other folks in industry, can also understand and appreciate the critical skills and experience that you've gained through your graduate career. Okay, so then let's take a look at finding a position in the US. And there are a couple ways that you can start. You can always a target specific position if you know what position you want to go for. Or if you don't have a specific position, but have a general kind of field that you're interested in. You can also target the field. Or if you dreamed of working for X company, always good to start with your dream company and see what opportunities that are available for you. So if you have a specific position, a good place to start is from Cornell Handshake. So Handshake is the platform. A lot of companies come to post jobs as they are targeting Cornell students. And to make it more effective for you. You can, you should definitely play with the filters. And at least set the filters to the school year to reflect the jobs that are opening for doctoral students or post-docs. So that you can sort of filter out all the jobs that only targeting undergrads. So that's something that you can do to help you or help this exploration on Cornell Handshake to be more effective. Next, if you are kinda focusing on a field that you want to go in, but don't have a specific company in mind. You can start searching the field to understand, okay, how many or what are the companies that are in this field in general? And then you can go on to see the position available on those company's website. And Buzzfile is a good platform for you to, to kind of search for companies in specific fields. And I can share this slide with everyone so you will get the link. Otherwise, you can go on to career services website and just type in Buzzfile in the search box and you should get to that page. When you go, go to the website of Buzzfile, you will see a list of majors or fields. And then you can choose the major that you want to go in or the major that is closest to your desired field. And take a look at the companies that are hiring or that are in those field in general. And lastly, if you have a specific company in mind, it's always good to start with the career page of those companies website. And then see what position available, what opening positions that they have that you're interested in. So that will be a general kind of quick start on the search for you. Yes, I also wanted to add, for the post-docs in the audience, when you sign up for a Handshake account, you're going to sign up as a student. And then you're going to email me to let me know you created an account so I can activate your account. Otherwise you are going to be in limbo forever. So I do need to activate your account for the postdocs. For the graduate student, it's done automatically. And they are really a great platform. And I would really suggest that you look at all of those resources and we have many more coming up. So one of the first thing you probably have heard, and we have talked about many time in terms of looking for position is networking. Networking is really, really important. And we know that about 20 percent of the jobs are advertised and most of them are going to be hidden somewhere. The iceberg analogy is always so perfect for finding, looking for position. So you need to build your network in order to find out what those jobs are. Where those jobs are, and also to have somebody if you're applying for some position, it also can be really useful if you have somebody in the company promoting you for that position or moving your application package forward. So you do need to build your network from the start. And as you all know by now, LinkedIn is a perfect place to bring your network. Can we have a quick show of hands? You can do it as yes or no. How many of you have a LinkedIn profile? There's a lot of people. So, so far everybody has a yes or a thumbs up, which I really love. I do have to say that I really enjoy LinkedIn. LinkedIn is, is a wonderful platform and it's also a great platform for us because it's a really easy way to keep it, keep track of our students and post-doc and see where they're going, right. Social media can be a negative and it can be a very strong positive also. And I really, it's a, it's a way for us to follow where you're going. It's a way for you to find out where other people with your type of background are. It's a way for you to find other Cornellians or other people from where you got your PhD or your undergrad. If they're working for a company or you are interested in. So when you are looking at LinkedIn, look at it very broadly and build it slowly, you know, it, you're not going to build it in one day, but every time you meet somebody new, whether it's at a conference, conferences are still happening right now. Even though they are not in person, there are still conferences going on and different things going on online. Join LinkedIn, get involved with LinkedIn and when you meet somebody new at a conference LinkedIn with them. And that's how you can do it. CUeLINKS is also a great system for our graduates students. Right now it is not open to postdoc. It's for graduate student to join with Cornell Alumni. And there's a number of mentorship groups, there's a number of, and those are all alumni who want to participate and mentor our students. Did you want to add something Caleb? Yeah, well, there's just 1 thing I want to add. That's both kind of applied, that both apply for LinkedIn and CUeLINKS, it's good to have a profile, but it's more important to have an update, updated profile, up to date profile. Sometimes we work with students who, who told us, yeah, I have a LinkedIn profile, but last time I touched it was five years ago. And so it's always a good place to start by updating your LinkedIn or CUeLINKS profile to reflects where you currently are at and your skill sets and experience. And make it, LinkedIn of course is going to be fairly general because you're not applying for a particular job. You're just showing who you are as a professional. So make sure that you put in all of your skills and make sure that you use a language that's not too academic, that is going to be appropriate for industries. So lots of resources when you're starting your job search. And sometime we, you know, we advise you to be careful because you can be spending hours and hours looking at all of those resources. So here are some of the resources we really like and that we have used. I mentioned LinkedIn. LinkedIn is of course great for networking. It's also great for finding jobs. And they will, once you have a very strong profile, what you will find is LinkedIn will push emails to you with different positions. Which is why, as Caleb mentioned, it's so important to have a completely updated profile. Mergent Intellect is also a great website where you can look at companies and it will allow you to see a lot of information about the company as well as their competitors, as well as their financial background, anything you can think up. And Simplyhired. And as Caleb mentioned earlier, we will send you the slides. You will have access to all of that. Another website that I personally really like is Versatile PhD. When you login to it, log into it from your Cornell account, it will give you access to the entire platform. We do contribute to Versatile PhD. We are one of the member of Versatile PhD. And what it does or what Versatile PhD, there are a number of great tools. There are discussion groups with different people in different industries. From consulting to editors to whatever you can think of. What they also have for example, is a student or a post-doc in anthropology who ended up working for a consulting firm. And on the website you will see everything that student or post-doc has done from their own story, they will write their story and include all of their documents as they are applying for jobs. So it can be a great place to look for ideas as well as a great place to see what do those documents look like? It can be really helpful depending on the positions you're applying for. For the humanities and social science PhDs a still relatively new website is Imagine PhD, which is also going to give you a number of great resources. And then for career in non-profits, we do have the Career Services Resource Library. Idealist is one that we often use, as well as Worldwide NGO Directories. So again, remember those are great resources. Be careful not to spend hours looking at them instead of applying for a position. US government, USA Jobs is the website to go to. Remembering that USA Jobs is generally for people who are residents or US citizens. So those are, those do have limitations generally in who can apply. If you're looking at careers in higher education, but not tenure track as we are talking at careers outside of academia, there are still a lot of career in higher education. Caleb and I are proof of that, we both are working with higher education, in higher education, but not tenure track. Inside Higher Ed, as well as Higher Ed Jobs, Chronical Vitae and HERC, which is Higher Education Research Consortium are great places. HERC is a great tool. If you are involved in a dual search, so if you have a partner who is also looking for position, it will allow you to put criteria for both people and it is by region. So you really look at those, those jobs by regions. Okay. And as we know that nearly 50% of our graduate student population is international. And this percentage is I, I think it's even higher among the Postdoctoral population. So we have some sort of tips or specifics for international students and postdocs. When you are looking for jobs, I think if you want to stay in and the states, a work visa will be something that you should think about post OPT or your J1 academic training period. And so usually it goes from OPT or J1 to H1B, which is the work visa and to green card. But as many of you have known or know that there is a cap or there is a upper limit to the H1B visa annually, and it's only 85 thousand each year. But in last year, 2020, even with the pandemic and the impact of, of it, there's still 201 thousand applications filed last year for H1B. So it's more than twice the number of spots available. So it's pretty competitive. But for some of the grad students, you can also consider applying for a green card. And that will be something come after H1B visa or something that you can do if you kind of have done awesome research and you've published a lot. And I think Christine can talk a little bit more about this and also about the national interests waiver. Yes, the national interest waiver is a petition you can do on your own. You do not need to have your employer help you with that petition and you do it on your own to be able to get residency, get your green card. It is a process that is fairly lengthy and unfortunately right now it's even more lengthy because we know that a lot of the consulates and embassies are not open and it does require a lot of work, but it is also a great way to get your Green Card and residency. I know I've spoken to a number of postdoc and grad students who have gone in that direction. And will often at the initial consultation with maybe or a law face to understand exactly what needed to be done in order to get to the green card that way. And I was also going to mention that the H1B limit to 85,000 cap is only for position in industries. It is not for positions in academia. Great, that's right, that's right. And we're going to talk a little bit more about this, the cap later in our slides. And so, so H1B is very important for you to consider if you want to stay and work in the States after your OPT. And there are two websites or platforms that we generally suggest students to kind of visit or check out. One is GoinGlobal and the other is myvisajobs.com. Cornell does have a subscription to GoinGlobal. And by that, you don't need to pay for the service. And you'll be able to access H1B database and also employer directory and whatnot. So these two and myvisajobs.com is a third-party website and you don't need any subscription or you don't need to pay for anything. And basically, that provides a lot of data and statistics about H1B and green card and some other visa types. And both websites get the data from Department of Labor in the US. So it's absolutely legit. So just a quick kind of demonstration. I screenshot GoinGlobal H1B data. And so this is how you can go about the search. So on the top of the screen here, the GoinGlobal page, you will see the H1B visas tab. When you click on that, it brings you to this page. And I'm showing on the left, and you'll be able to search the position, search the database by job title or keywords, or any specific company, and then by year. So here I basically just put in research scientist in 2020. And on the right-hand side of the page, you'll see that there are 2846 results that match this research scientists criteria. And you will find what the job title is. Occupation, but more importantly, who is the sponsor? So the company, location. And year we said 2020, and the salary. And what this does to you is then, now you know that if you're targeting a science, research scientist position, you know, who in, at least in 2020, have sponsored a research scientist position. And maybe if getting a H1B is something that you are shooting for, a good place to start is by researching all these companies and take a look at the career page on their website and see if they have any available positions that you're interested in. There are some H1B search tips, job search tips. So H1B sponsorship ties to the position but not the company. So this is one of the myths that students kind of always believe or fall into, which is oh, X company sponsor and Y company don't. Maybe it seems that way, but what the truth is, companies sponsor specific positions because there is a need and choose not to sponsor other positions because it's easier, so much easier to hire domestic students or residents, so that they don't need to justify the need of hiring international or global talents. Also, when you search for H1B positions, consider those organizations that are Cap exempt. So earlier Christine made the comment that when you see the 85,000 cap annually for H1B, that only applies for companies, generally in industry. And there our organizations that are Cap exempt, which means they're not limited to how many H1B they can apply and when, when they should apply for. They can do however remaining H1B they, they want to at anytime of the year. And generally, non-profit NGO or many higher education institutions do that. But remember it ties to the position, not to the institution or company. So myvisajobs.com is a good place for you to sort of find out those companies or organizations that are exempt. So you see the screenshot here. When you go to the employer database, you can check this box. So you will find all the cap exempt employers. And when you, when you look for kind of companies that have a track record of sponsoring international students or sponsoring H1B in the past, it'll be a great idea or great attempt if you can kind of get an internship in that company Because many of the companies these days hire their permanent or full-time positions out of their intern pool. And even if not, it will be, it'll be great if you can just get an internship there to get a taste of like, okay, do I like the company culture? Do I like the team here? And if you do, and if you did an excellent job, I'm sure when you go back to apply for a full-time position, people will like to put in some good word for you or even potentially refer you internally for the position that you held. And also because of sort of the competitiveness of the, of getting an H1B. And also, as we all realize how sort of challenging these couple, these past couple of years were for international students, we want to generally encourage you and also for, for those who are residents and citizens to broaden your search. If you are not necessarily tied to location. Because there are a lot of great companies outside of the US or companies who have branches outside of the US. So find employers' headquarter in your home country. That will be a good way to start because if they have if their headquarter is in your home country and they have branch offices in the US. It might not be a bad idea. If you can not find a job in the US within the time required, to get a job in that company in your home country, which you don't need any work authorization. And then eventually be able to sort of transfer back to their branches in the US or in other countries as well. So Uniworldonline is a good tool or place for you to find out those companies who are headquartered in and outside of the US and that has branch offices or entities inside the US or vice versa, who have, who's headquartered in the US, but also also have global branches. And then you can take a look at, okay, what are the countries that they have the branches in? And would I be interested in going to those countries as well. When you find those companies. You want to also take a look at their H1B visa sponsorship history in the US. Make sure they do sponsor H1B. Otherwise, even if you can find a job in your home country or in other countries, if they don't sponsor H1B, sometimes it's a little bit hard for you to transfer back. But also there is a possibility for you to go through that inter-company transfer, transferee route. But that will be a more complicated immigration kind of topic for you to sort of consult with the Office of Global Learning or a law firm. Basically, what that is is similar to what I mentioned earlier. If you find a position in this company who's headquartered in your home country or outside of the US. And they also have a branch here in the US. There is a type of visa that will allow you to get the transfer and then be able to work in the US if company wants to go down that route. So again, there is the possibility there, but we're not the experts. So you need to consult with law firms or other kind of legal experts if you want to explore that. So I'm going to head over to Christine to start the option two: finding a position outside the US. So another really exciting option for all of our graduate student and postdoc, no matter where you are from, is to find a position outside of the US. And when we are talking outside of the US, we are talking generally outside of the US, but not in your home countries because you know how to do that. So we are really talking about. Looking at different places you might want to go. So first of all, set your goals. Why do you want to go outside the US? What type of, is it because it's a company you're completely interested in and they happen to be somewhere else. Or you've always wanted to, you always wanted to live in Australia and that's a way of getting there. You know, you also need to really look at what type of international job search resources that we have out there. And we're going to of course, bring, bring some to you. And understanding the culture, the job market and work authorization, of course, is extremely important. So we are going to be discussing all of those strategies. So there are basically two different ways you can look at that. As I mentioned earlier, is it the company or is it the countries? Are you looking at a company and position of fields? Or you're looking at a country or even a city, or even a continent, I  did mention Australia earlier, that you want to look at. So if you're looking for company and positions, GoinGlobal, that we had, we had mentioned those resources earlier, GoinGlobal and Indeed Worldwide. And of course, if there is a specific company you're interested in, look at their website and look at the jobs. They will list their jobs in the US as well as outside of the US. LinkedIn is also used all over the world. I know we use it a lot in the US, but other countries it's being used also. You also could be looking at internships and volunteer opportunities. There are also higher job, jobs in higher education. There are higher jobs too, if you want to call them that, but there are job in higher education internationally also, so HigherEdJobs-International. TeachAway is a great place to look at K-12 position. So basically elementary school, middle school, high school type of position internationally. So really find, use those website to find opportunities. In Canada, you can also use LinkUp, which is a great resource for the NGO. Worldwide NGO directory is a place to go. And very often when we are thinking international, we do think about NGOs. But there is much more than NGOs, of course. And global companies that have branches both in the US and abroad is Uniworldonline. And as Caleb had mentioned, that can be also a good place to stop depending on where you want to go and if you're, you want to stay in that country, come back into the US. Or if you're having, you might encounter visa issues, going abroad first and then coming back here can also work. And the next one we want to talk a little bit about again, is targeting the country or a city. So when you're targeting a country, do understand what the country is like. So do your homework before you start targeting a country. And I'm going to pick on my home country a little bit. Just because I can. So if for example you want to apply for a position in France, you need to speak French. So France is one of those countries where business is done, in French. A lot of countries you can do your business in English, right? So as long as you speak English, you can go there. France is not one of them. So do understand what the local rules and regulation, if you want to call them that, but employment regulation, what is the job market look like? How do they hire? Do they have preferences for certain jobs? So we know, for example, in Canada, they do give preference for faculty position to Canadian. So try to understand what, what are, what is a job market in the country? And again, GoinGlobal is a great guide. BusinessCulture.org is a wonderful place to understand the, more of the culture of the country. It also can be a really, really good guide once you get a job to really understand how it's going to work. We do know that things are defined depending on where you are. The business culture will be defined. Etiquette of course, is very different as well as we apply. So you certainly don't want to end up in a country where you would not feel comfortable and it's not, will not be your preferred place. And also you have to of course, identify local job sites. You know, what other sites that are used in, in that country. In that case, you probably will also need to know the language used in that country because it probably will not be in, in English. And Job Rank will give you the top job sites by countries. What I would say is when you are targeting a country, that's where also using LinkedIn really will work. So find Cornellians  because it would be the easiest one to find or find people who are working in that country. And ask them question, network with them and ask them question about what is it like? How did you find your position? How do you find working there? And of course, that's, you know, the country as well as our goal A, which was the industry you want to work for. But really, really look into it before you make that move. Did you want to add something Caleb? No. No. That's okay.  So yeah. Go ahead. Yeah. So kinda considering all kinds of immigration hurdles, I think it's also good for international students to identify countries that are friendly towards international students and postdocs. But I think this really applies to the residents and citizens as well, because you will be considered an international student in those countries as well. And there are two specific programs that I want to mention here. So last year, we hosted the Council General of Canada to talk about one of their visa programs is called can Canada express entry Visa or Express entry program. That is a program for you to sort of gain permanent residency in Canada. And, and that extremely favors graduate students or those who have work experience. And the program is much more straightforward compared to the US immigration system. And so I would encourage you to kind of take a look at that if you're also open to kind of opportunities outside of the US, but Canada also is close enough and is in North America. So that will be a great place for you to consider. But if you want to go even broader or visit a different continent, in the Netherlands, there is a Dutch orientation visa for highly educated persons program. That's a visa program that favors advanced degree holders graduating from world top 200 education institution. So Cornell, obviously is part of that. And what's what's good about this program is, you don't need a job offer to be able to apply, so you can apply and then move to the Netherlands to either just live their experience, culture, or to spend that one year to look for jobs. And if you get a job there, you'll be able to kind of transfer your status a work visa or whatever they call it equivalent there after that one year. And so that is a great place for you to enter the sort of European job market. And UK is definitely one of that. But kind of situation is a little bit different now, when, once the Brexit happens. But Netherlands is the number one country or the country that has one of the highest English proficiency in Europe. Among all the non-English speaking countries. So English is broadly used as kind of communication there. So that'll be another great country or channel for you to check out if you want to explore careers in Europe as well. All right, so there's some final tips for, for you. So we encourage you to start early, but it's never too late. So even if you are in your final year of your doctoral program or you're in the tail end of your post-doctoral appointment. And you just realized, oh, I need to do these. It's never too late. Reach out to Christine or myself, we'll talk about your situation, we'll come up with an individual game plan for you to sort of help you navigate this process and sort of provide support to you. Next one is networking. Networking is really important for grad students or postdocs who want to pivot into industry or away from academia. But if you're an international student or post-doc, that's even more important because a good network can provide you way more support and give you information that you likely cannot find online. So definitely use LinkedIn or CUeLINKS to network with alumni or other professionals in the field. And also research employers prior to taking any actions. It's always nice to show that your interests, but also show that you know how to take initiative by doing research or doing some homework on employers. So visit their company website. Buzzfile again is a great place. Or you can check out the Cornell library or different libraries, although they kind of sync up to the same system, library, is a great place for you to find information. I know that when we kind of think of a library, it doesn't really strike us as like a place to find information about careers or companies, but it does, especially Cornell has a lot of kind of great access to different platforms through our library system. So I definitely suggest that you check out Cornell library and type in keywords, be creative to see what you can find there. And also, you need to tailor your documentations to the jobs or, or job descriptions or the countries that you're applying to. So if you know that you want to apply for a job in another country outside of the US. GoinGlobal provides a great information on not just the country itself, but also professional information on what are the, the country use a resume or CV and also the format of the resume or CV and cover letters they use in that country. So you can use the right document in your job application. And also networking with professionals or alumni that are working in those countries to get first-hand knowledge. So that at least you get some sort of validation from people who are actually working in there. Instead of just randomly Googling around and find information from websites you may or may not know whether it's legit. So that's why we again, encourage you to network with people both in the US but also outside of the US to learn the professional etiquette and culture as well. And so for research masters students or PhDs, if you have any questions or want to talk more about this, you can reach out to me but for professional master's students, I suggest you to reach out to your program office. Usually you will have a career support person to work, who work with your program specifically. And for postdocs or any grad students that are interested in post-doc positions. You know who to reach out to, Christine. And this is her contact information here. So before we open the floor up for you to ask questions, we definitely value your feedback. So if you can, please take a minute or two to sort of fill out this.