国际学生在美国怎样找会计工作（转自西雅图大学中国学生博客）

wand01

How can international students find jobs successfully?
Posted on Wednesday, February 09, 2011

There is no guarantee for any international students to find a job in the tough economy unless you are very lucky. The most effective way for me to get a job is the combination of networking and hardworking. Career consultants all agree that more than 80% of positions never go public. Hiring managers all prefer references. As far as I know about international students who got job offers in US in the recent years, they all had certain connection with the company they went to. Therefore, networking, networking, and networking. I added Seattle University Alumni who work at my target firms in LinkedIn, asking them for informational interview and following up with them. I joined every social event at Albers school and Accounting Department to build relationships with many professionals. I told faculties, career advisors, friends, as well as friends’ friends that I was looking for a job, and asked them to refer me whenever they know a suitable opening for me. Albers faculty members and the consultant in the Albers Placement Center all greatly helped me while I was doing job hunting.  



If it is hard for international students to work as an intern outside of school, working as a student assistant at school is a very good idea. Although working and studying at the same time will bring you a tight schedule, the experience is definitely worth it. I learned great organizational, interpersonal and leadership skills while working as a Graduate Assistant for the Graduate Program Office. Such experiences allowed me to come up with vivid and convincing examples that managers in accounting firms like to hear during interviews.



Last but not least, opportunities indeed go to those well prepared students. First, keep working hard and networking.  Second, look for different learning opportunities to improve skills such as mock interview, resume review, internships, community events, mentor fair and so forth.  When your profile is strong enough, I believe job Offers will come to your door.



Written by (Julia) Qian Deng, MPAC student, anticipating to graduate in June 2011, Albers Business School  

http://www.seattleu.edu/albers/blog.aspx?blogid=8402

penelope0823

thanks for sharing

crawling

Perfect insight! Could u share some networking skills?

michaelmay17

mark~

Jackzhch

hardworing and networking!!! thx for sharing

tammy212

mark

xiaoyanjoy

mark

ClaireDawson

mark~说的很中肯

wand01

LZ是西雅图大学的？我很想去西雅图，但是我想申请的是金融方向研究生，MSF或者MF都可以，请问西雅图大学或者华盛顿大学的这些项目如何？

-- by 会员 darkmoon121 (2011/4/20 9:21:34)

我不是哦，我本来也想申请西雅图大学来着，后来看西雅图大学要求本科非会计的修88个学分。。。被吓到了。。。

kaorunice

thanks for sharing~