To effectively support international students, career services must leverage comprehensive strategies and tools tailored to their specific needs. Here are three key approaches to enhance their career outcomes:
1. Building a supportive community
International students benefit from forming networks with other students and employers globally to avoid feeling isolated and unlock future recruitment opportunities. Handshake allows them to interact with peers, alumni and employers worldwide, forging connections, discovering global career paths, and gaining insights from their alumni community.
2. Providing tailored career advice
When exploring early-career paths, students working abroad face extra administration hurdles. Handshake enables employers to define work authorisation requirements and visa sponsorship eligibility for job postings. International students also benefit from highlighting unique skills to employers. Student profiles on Handshake feature a skills section and a new languages section that lets students share their language skills and proficiency levels.
3. Enhancing engagement with personalised resources
Engaging international students effectively requires targeted resources and support from careers services. International student groups can be segmented in Handshake, enabling university partners to curate their experience with events, appointments, resources, journeys, videos, and job collections. Additionally, receiving personalised content increases engagement, satisfaction, and employment outcomes.
By implementing these strategies, career services can make a profound impact on the career success of international students. Providing a supportive community, tailored advice, and personalised resources addresses the unique challenges these students face, helping them navigate their career paths more effectively. These efforts are crucial in ensuring that international students not only adjust well but also thrive in their professional journeys.
International students face unique challenges which careers services need to address. Trusted by over 1,500 educational institutions, Handshake amplifies the global efforts of universities to engage international students, enhance their experiences, and improve employment outcomes.
To find out more about how Handshake can support improving employment outcomes for international students contact partnerships.eu@joinhandshake.com