Leveraging Your International Experience

Highlighting International on Your Resume

This Highlighting Your International Experience presentation, created by CALS Career Services, has tips for general resume writing as well as ideas for adding your international experience to your resume.

Guide to Entry Level International Careers

USAID – Junior Officer (JO) Program

  • ­http://www.usaid.gov/careers/
  • ­Go to Foreign Service JO Program
  • ­Recruits new Foreign Service Officers (FSO) through Junior Officer (JO) Program
  • ­Prepares FSO for tenure through individual training programs
  • ­Training program is 3 years: 6 – 18 months in DC and 24 months of broad-based training through rotational assignments overseas
  • ­Must meet the foreign language tenuring requirements before departure

Institute of International Education

  • ­http://www.iie.org/
  • ­Click on IIE Networking (bottom of the page)
  • ­Select the topic “Job Board”
  • ­View what jobs are offered at the time

Kaplan

National Institutes of Health

  • ­http://www.jobs.nih.gov/default.htm
  • Job search available on left panel of website
  • ­Job Qualifications – KSA
  • Knowledge – organized body of information obtained through education and previous experience
  • Skills – manual/verbal/mental trait that is observable, measurable
  • Abilities – perform an activity resulting in a product/consequence

National Science Foundation

  • ­http://www.nsf.gov/about/career_opps/
  • Click on “All Positions” to view what is available
  • ­Learning opportunities include:
  • GoLearn Web-based e-Learning
  • Onsite classroom courses
  • Independent Research/Development Program
  • ACE Program
  • NSF’s After Hours Program – tuition assistance to competitively selected employees
  • Leadership Development Program

US Department of Agriculture

NAFSA

  • http://www.nafsa.org/career_center/
  • ­Click on “Job Registry” (It is not necessary to create an account in order to further look at international education careers)
  • ­Click on “Job Seekers”
  • ­Click on “Jobs” tab at the top of the page
  • ­Click on “View all Jobs”

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