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Getting a Job in the US - a guide for International MBA students
Welcome to 'Getting a Job in the US - a guide for International MBA students'. The guide was written in 1999 by a group of International MBA students in the US, and was sold as an eBook through ForeignMBA.com.

Since February 2009, it is available online for free.

Please keep in mind the guide was written over 10 years ago; although much of the advice is still valid today, the world has changed significantly. We intend to update parts of the guide in the following months.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.- Introduction
1.1.- Audience (who are you?)
1.2.- How to use this guide?
2.- BEFORE YOU GET STARTED
2.1.- Is it wrong to stay?
2.2.- Two major obstacles stand between you and a job
2.3.- Forget what you know about the job search process
2.4.- Thousands of people have done it in the past, you can do it too
2.5.- Does everybody want to stay?
2.6.- Job Hunting is a Job
3.- COMPETITIVE DISADVANTAGES (And how to overcome them)
3.1.- Language
3.2.- Culture
3.3.- Legal
3.4.- Background
4.- COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES (And how to exploit them)
4.1.- Language and culture
4.2.- You are Global
4.3.- Tied to company
4.4.- Resourcefulness
4.5.- Savings
5.- THE PROCESS
5.1.- Getting an Interview
5.1.1.- Getting prepared
5.1.2.- Off Campus search
5.1.3.- Networking
5.1.4.- Building your resume
5.1.5.- Researching/Selecting the companies
5.1.6.- Building/sending your cover letters
5.1.7.- Follow-up
5.1.8.- Bidding for interviews
5.2.- The Interview
5.2.1.- Prepare for the interviews
5.2.2.- Interviews
5.3.- Summer Internship
5.3.1.- What if you don’t get a summer internship offer?
5.3.2.- Accepting the Summer Internship offer
5.3.3.- The Internship
5.4.- Second-year recruiting
5.4.1.- The Process, Again
5.4.2.- What if nothing works?
6.- OTHER TIPS
6.1.- Go to career fairs
6.2.- Hot areas (Information Technology)
6.3.- Take academics seriously
6.4.- Specialize
6.5.- Use technology
6.6.- Using the Web
6.7.- About Negotiating
7.- WORK FOR WHOM
7.1.- Choosing the companies
7.2.- Large Vs Small
7.3.- By Industry
8.- IMMIGRATION ISSUES
8.1.- Working before graduation
8.2.- Working after graduation: Standard H1-B process
8.3.- Other ways to immigrate
8.4.- Immigration Resources
9.- APPENDIX A Recruiting companies
9.1.- Companies that usually do not recruit foreign MBAs
9.2.- Companies known to have recruited foreign MBAs
10.- APPENDIX B - How to emphasize IT
10.1.- Emphasizing IT
11.- APPENDIX C - Employer' expectations
11.1.- What recruiters expect
12.- APPENDIX D - Typical Interview Questions
12.1.- Common interview questions
13.- APPENDIX E - Summary
13.1.- Top 10 things you can do to improve your chance of getting a job
   
   

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