Hi everybody. Mia Ferraina here, Career Advisor in Cornell Career Services, and we are back with another video about gap and bridge experiences. This one is going to be about where you can search for experiences that might be interesting to you, and we'll also talk about how to make sure that they are reputable programs and not scams, because there's a lot out there on the internet. So, how to explore and find opportunities. We're going to go through a lot of different links. I'll walk you through some sites today. Hopefully you're familiar with some of the ones in this first column, but I'll give a brief explanation of things like Handshake, which is a platform that many colleges use, Cornell included, to post both jobs and career-related events. CUeLINKS is a networking platform. You can ask questions of alumni or have informational interviews with them to learn more about an industry that you might be interested in or to gain connections for a job you're applying to. The Career Services website is also always a great resource to explore different potential career fields and our Resource Library. Some tools specifically about gap experiences. Those Cornell resources are a little bit more general for lots of different job search related resources, but these tools related to gap years are really strong. The Gap Year Association is a nonpartisan, unaffiliated organization that reviews programs to see if they're legitimate. So I will show you a little bit of their website. So this is what it looks like. You can see that they have some accredited and member organizations. There's a search feature here that is much like other job search sites where there's filters and things. And you can also see what criteria are used to determine what makes someone an accredited gap year program. So that is a really helpful website I highly recommend people to use. Now this isn't going to include every program under the sun, especially because you have to apply to be an accredited GYA program. But it is a good place to start or double-check if you found a program and you're not sure if it's legit. One of the greatest resources I think the Gap Year Association puts out is this Gap Year Guide, and you'll see it is a multi-page PDF document. This is just the table of contents, but it gives you a little bit of an overview of what's in the rest of the packet. It's kind of a handbook and a workbook of sorts, questions to ask yourself, guidance to consider. You'll get these little tidbits of advice from people who have done gap experiences before. So I think this guide is really great. I'm gonna switch back here. And so that's the GYA guide. We also sometimes use a site called GapMatcher, which is kind of like a survey that asks you about what you might be interested in pursuing in your gap experience, it takes into account different factors like whether or not you want to spend money and those kinds of things. So GapMatcher is kind of like a survey that actually I think works best on your phones. I won't show it here today, but it's kind of a quiz that asks you about different factors, like the ones we talked about in the last video about what you want out of your experience. So, do you want to go abroad? Do you want to stay in the US? Do you want to be with other people? How much money do you want to spend or make? Lots of questions like that. And then it gives you suggestions at the end, which is awesome. So I suggest checking that out on your phone. Idealist is another really great website. It looks really fun, but also has some really great filters. So let's say we look at, we can look for jobs, internships or volunteer opportunities. So Idealist is really great because you can look for jobs, internships or volunteer opportunities, and grad schools as well actually. So this is a really well-known site for public service related careers and jobs. So this isn't necessarily going to be formal programs like those that would be listed on the Gap Year Association website. But it will be jobs that you could potentially do in your gap time. Things that I think are most beneficial about Idealist are this filter called job function, which focuses on like what skill or task you would contribute to an organization. So maybe you aren't particularly passionate about a certain issue, but you know that you want to do maybe arts and photography to promote some sort of public issue or equity question. So you can filter by things like that. Obviously you can filter by location. But the other really great filter Idealist offers is this issue area feature. If you're someone who's really passionate about a particular issue or challenge of society, you can check any or multiple of these different categories. You know, you could say, I want to work in, I don't know, let's say education and work with people who have disabilities. So that might produce different results when you select multiple of these filters. But that is a really great feature that not a lot of more traditional job search sites have. So Idealist is really great for those who are interested in public service. So this last column here is all the international gap opportunities. A lot of people like to travel the world during their time between undergrad and grad school. So there's a lot of different websites that can help you explore those opportunities. I'm not going to walk you through every single one of these, but I'll show you a few. So, omprakash is a really great site in terms of browsing a wide variety of programs. So you can look based on a certain location, mostly continent-based. And again, you can think about the organization's focus. This is kind of like that issue area filter from Idealist. So that is a great way to start. Or you can think about kind of these different funding related ways to get started. Omprakash and Oysterworldwide are very similar. So I won't show you that one, but this is a worldwide NGO directory. So NGO's are non-government organizations, aka, non-profits. They go by a lot of different names. But this is a map where you can browse by region of the world or search for something specific. And that can help you find a non-profit across the world about maybe you might want to work with. So you could reach out to them and create your own opportunity or see if they have any jobs posted currently. Another great site is Teach Away. This is a really great site if you're looking to teach English abroad or teach other subjects in other areas of the world. So this is a good site if you are looking to become a teacher and go internationally, you'll find that a lot of programs charge you to participate or just seem kind of sketchy in some way. Teach away is a really reputable site that I would recommend for those of you who are looking into teaching specifically. This is a website called GoinGlobal. It's got a lot of really helpful information in here. You will notice that there's a Cornell logo up here. You'll have to log in through the Cornell Career Services website so that you get access to everything. But there are career guides that tell you about different norms or societal expectations in different countries. Things that might be different about what they expect during interviews around resumes. There's also job and internship search engine here. There's also job and internship search engines here, employer directories and information about H1B visas. So this is a really robust website. If you have questions about navigating this site specifically, I might be able to help you and we also have an international career advisor, Caleb Yu, who is really, really well-versed in all the ends and outs of this website. So I'd recommend making an appointment with one of us if you would like some help. Last for my med students that are out there, I want to make sure you're aware of the concept of fair trade learning. So that is, the idea, the kind of boil down is if you wouldn't be allowed to do it here in the US because you don't have the credentials to do it safely, then you probably shouldn't be doing that kind of Medical Service abroad either. So that's a very oversimplified way of explaining this concept. But fair trade learning is something you'll want to keep in mind. You can read more about it on a few different websites. But one tool that I really like is the GAPS toolkit. So GAP stands for Global Ambassadors for Patient Safety. It's actually run out of another university. But it has a really interesting toolkit that you can work through as a student who is interested in working internationally in health care to make sure that you are ethically practicing health care and not kind of overstepping what your qualifications would be. Making sure that they're sustainable, safe, ethical services for those that you are providing for. So that is all we have today for the different websites you might be interested in exploring to find different gap or bridge experiences. Like I said, these can range from super official programs to a job that you might apply for regardless of whether or not you're going back to school. So these are all great websites. There are plenty more out there as well. If you're looking for guidance or support in figuring out what your goals are and what opportunities might want to apply for, feel free to reach out to myself or any other one of our advisors and we'd be happy to help you.