More than a third of Kelley's graduate population comes from outside of the United States. Our career coaches understand the differences in how companies recruit in the U.S. and overseas. We'll work one-on-one with you to perfect your personal story, help you identify aspects of your previous experiences that give you a strategic advantage, and teach you techniques for networking and interviewing—whether you seek a job within the U.S. or abroad.
In today's global marketplace, your international background can be a huge advantage
International graduate students at Kelley enjoy the same overall offer rate as domestic students.
Kelley offers a wide range of resources for international students to help them manage the transition to the United States.
Here are a few tips:
- Discuss your career options with your career coach before you arrive on campus
- Practice English with our Intensive English Program
- Improve your networking, leadership, and communication skills during the first semester's Leadership, Professional, and Career Development programming
The Immigration Bridge Program®
The Immigration Bridge Program® will help you navigate the complex H-1B visa process—so you can excel in great jobs.
Immigration Bridge is a proactive partnership between the Kelley School of Business, the IU Office of International Services, and a top immigration law firm, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP, to assist international students and recruiters with immigration matters related to employer sponsorship. While this program does not guarantee a visa sponsorship, visa, or employment, it does improve the situation for international students being recruited both on and off campus.
For more information on the Immigration Bridge Program®, view the Student Fact Sheet.
Students—not the recruiting companies—initiate the Immigration Bridge Program® application.
If you are student and need U.S. work authorization during the offer phase with an employer, you should start the Immigration Bridge Program® application:
- Fill out a brief E-Form. This authorizes Fragomen to initiate legal consultation with your prospective employer. You must tell recruiting companies about the program before filling out the E-Form to gauge their interest in participating.
- After you fill out the E-Form, the IU Office of International Services will contact the recruiting company for permission to have Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP, a top international law firm, begin the discovery process with the company.
- Fragomen will contact you and your recruiting company with a questionnaire.
Learning how to network in the United States
Learning how to network can be intimidating, especially if it’s literally a foreign concept to you. Watch the video to see how Karan Wilson, MBA’17, learned to connect across cultures.
Description of the video:
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Before walking into Kelley, I never had to network, so I never knew how to do that because in India it's all skill based. So the biggest surprise for me was how important it is for someone who is going to recruit you or someone who you're going to work with to see you as a person and not just as a set of skills that you're bringing in to do the work.
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Unknown
So during the first couple of weeks at Kelley, we had our first opportunity to really meet with recruiters, meet with people from different companies, and trying to put my best foot forward every time to not make any mistakes. It was stressful. I was fortunate to have Eric, the director of GCS, to guide me during meeting, and if it weren't for him, I wouldn't have been able to meet the first person, so I wouldn't have been able to go and then just introduce myself in a professional way.
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Unknown
So meeting was was really helpful. The career coaches at Kelley have helped me both professionally and personally. I think the biggest thing in my career coach is helping me out with though, is being who I am. Just throwing my personality out. I mean, she tells me so I know that that works really well. Just to be more aware of how the conversation is and really picking up cues, it's hard, but with practice, I think I'm going to get there.
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Unknown
Kelley has given me the confidence to be who I am, to really be myself and network with my own personality and be sure that it's going to resonate well with people and it's going to help me get a job.