As graduation comes creeping around the corner for the 2023 Spring semester graduates, many are still looking for a job. I found looking for a job with OPT to be quite stressful, especially as I am not a STEM major. At first, looking for jobs with, seemingly, limited resources by myself using websites such as Handshake, LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, etc. seemed really vexing, but I found some websites and got help from the career services that helped me a lot.
First off, the career services website has numerous tools to help international students.
https://careernetwork.msu.edu/resources/
I would like to point out two different resources from this website.
- GoinGlobal
- What can I do with this major?
As an international student, I found GoinGlobal really helpful, because it showed different options for international students. One could choose which specific countries, search for internships, and see a whole database of different companies supporting OPT and H1B.
What can I do with this major also was very helpful as I am not a business or a STEM major, and could not really ask around to enquire about which jobs I could take. I wasted a few interviews because of this, as neither I nor the interviewer knew whether the specific job would be eligible for OPT. When I asked around, the only answer I could get was that the job I get had to be directly related to my major. Just what is directly related to my major was left to my imagination. What can I do with this major function on the MSU career website shows what fields I could go into with my major.
For those wanting to study more at graduate schools,
https://www.gradschools.com/
is a great website to see which schools have the best programs for specific fields of studies.
To finish off, I would like to post some Korean American websites. I found jobs on these websites to be more responsive to applications than other websites.
- https://www.radiokorea.com/
- https://heykorean.com/
- https://jobkoreausa.com/
RadioKorea is a website for the West coast (LA, etc.) and has a lot of job openings for different majors.
HeyKorean and Jobkoreausa are both similar and have job openings for different majors across the United States.
