204th INTLconnect Newsletter- April 25, 2019
CONTACT: Shoptorshi Rahman
Hello to all our INTLconnect Members!
You are reading the 204th issue of The Career Center’s INTLconnect Newsletter. This newsletter is a weekly e-newsletter covering career-related information for international students of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For regular career services and programs for international students, see https://www.careercenter.illinois.edu/INTLconnect and our INTLconnect at Illinois LinkedIn group. To see the previous issues of this newsletter, please visit our INTLconnect Newsletter Blog.
INTL News
International Student Career Meetup: Enhancing Networking and Communication Skills
Friday, April 26, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, The Career Center Interview Suite Room 213
The informal meetup is open to all international students who are interested in learning about networking and communication skills. Open to all international students. A couple of international students who improved these skills very well are invited as guest speakers. To learn more about guest speakers and RSVP click here.
2019 AUCA Summer Career Fair
For the students who are interested in China job market, this event creates employment opportunities in China, and students who are planning to travel to or stay in Shenzhen, China this summer, can pay a visit. University of Illinois Shanghai Office is going to co-host career fairs under the name of American Universities' China Association (AUCA) Career Fair in China. Hundreds of companies in China are coming to hire you, please mark your calendar as followed:
Time: 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday, July 20, Shenzhen
Saturday, July 27, Shanghai,
Saturday, August 3, Beijing
For agenda and details check Handshake.
It’s all for You: Updated CPT-OPT & AT list!
Do you know what wonderful resources we have for our international students?
For all international students on campus to get acquainted with the resources The Career Center website offers, to ease your job searching process in the U.S. job market, whether you’re graduate or undergraduate student seeking for jobs. Learn about the international student friendly companies who have hired and accepted CPT/OPT/AT from particular majors of the campus.
Visit our most updated CPT & OPT & AT list spring 2019!
INTL Weekly Internships/Jobs
Machine Learning Engineer at Qokka Inc, Mountain View, California
Application deadline: by December 31
Qokka consists of a small, exceptional engineering team valuing good product, good engineering, and good code, respecting and appreciating the chance of learning from each other. Machine Learning Engineers are not only responsible for building the core of our natural language understanding systems, but also are the architects who design systems that transform the outputs to human-interpretable results for other software engineers to work with. Job details are posted on Handshake.
Software Engineer at HealthCrowd, San Mateo, California
Application deadline: by June 11
HealthCrowd is the healthcare industry's first end-to-end communications solution. The company’s vision is to transform healthcare communications from tactical activity to strategic lever. They are looking for a brilliant and versatile entry-level software engineer to help, build and scale HealthCrowd. The employer accepts CPT/OPT. Details are posted on Handshake.
Unilever Leadership Internship Program-Shanghai or Ningbo, China
Application deadline: by April 28
Unilever is one of the global reputed brands and famous for their internship programs. Recently Unilever China has posted summer internship program announcement. If you want to gain valuable career experience with Unilever China, you can avail this opportunity. Few responsibilities mentioned leading and challenging projects to gain whole business overview, frontline work to dig out function insight behind data and facts, with buddy and mentors to level up your career capability. Job details, limitations and recruitment process are provided on Handshake.
Intern-Algorithm Engineer at Alibaba Group, Beijing, China
Application deadline: by June 30
Alibaba Group is one of the fastest growing business groups of the world providing opportunities to the global talents. As an algorithm engineer at Alibaba, you will be responsible for performing research and development to advance the state-of-the-art of speech recognition, speech synthesis, speaker recognition, language identification, emotion recognition and other related tasks. Other job details and information are posted on Handshake.
Japanese Bilingual Recruiter position at Pasona, San Jose, California
Application deadline: by August 31
Since its foundation in 1985, Pasona N A Inc. has pursued a clear corporate philosophy of "Solutions to Society's Problems “and supported Japanese companies entering the North American market. This position is primarily responsible for increasing the volume of registered applicants using various resources. Also responsible for recruiting, researching, interviewing, screening and referring job candidates for clients’ job openings. To apply and check requirements visit Handshake.
Other Upcoming Events/Workshops
AsiaFEST 2019
Sunday, April 28, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM, Asian American Cultural Center, 1210 W. Nevada Street, Urbana
All students on campus feel free to join AACC for an afternoon of performances, arts & crafts, cultural booths, and food tastings to celebration Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Heritage Month.
Career Fairs in Japan for Japanese Bilinguals in summer 2019
For details click through these clicks provided below:
- https://global.mynavi.jp/conts/event/expo2019/index_en.html?1556068841
- https://careerforum.net/en/event/tks
- https://careerforum.net/en/event/osk
- https://careerforum.net/en/event/exs
KOTRA Hosting Two Job Fairs for Korean and Korean American Students in U.S.
KOTRA, a South Korean governmental agency, is going to host two job fair targeting Korean international and Korean American students in U.S. For details click through these clicks provided below:
- https://jobkoreausa.com/kotra/
- https://www.facebook.com/kotranyjobfair
Book of the Week
Lean in for Graduates
Writers: Sheryl Sandberg
Main Topic: Career Guide for Fresh Graduates
Have you ever thought and got confused about what to do, how to pursue dream jobs right after your graduations? This book will help you to enhance your job searching skills, salary negotiations and other resources which are very crucial for any graduates in the job market. Some techniques on interchangeable career paths and informational interviews along with building skills and abilities to get the professional success.
To check the availability please click here.
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