Finding a job abroad and moving is an extremely difficult undertaking with many subtle moments and pitfalls. The slightest help on the way to the goal will not be superfluous for a potential emigrant. Therefore, I have compiled a list of several useful services - they will help in finding a job, solving visa issues and communicating in new realities.
: Find US Work Visa Sponsor Companies
One of the most obvious ways to move to the US or Canada is to find an employer. This is not an easy process, about which many articles have been written. But you can make it at least a little easier if you at least start searching with the right companies. Your task is to move, but for a company to bring an employee from abroad can be difficult. Small startups are unlikely to spend resources on this, it is much more efficient to look for employers who actively hire foreigners.
MyVisaJobs is a great resource for finding such companies. It contains statistics on the number of US work visas (H1B) issued to their employees by a number of companies.
The site maintains a constantly updated rating of the 100 most active employers in terms of hiring foreigners. On MyVisaJob, you can find out which companies most often issue H1B visas to employees, how many of them come on such a visa, and what average salary such immigrants receive.
Note: in addition to data for employees, the site has statistics on universities and student visas.
: analysis of salaries by industries and regions of the United States
If MyVisaJob is more focused on collecting information about visas, then Paysa collects salary statistics. Basically, the service covers the field of technology, so the data is presented for professions related to IT. With this site, you can find out how much programmers are paid at large companies like Amazon, Facebook or Uber, as well as compare the salaries of engineers in different states and cities.
Interestingly, by using various search settings, you can filter the results to find out, for example, which skills and technologies are the most profitable today.
Like the previous resource, Paysa can be used from the point of view of education - it shows the average salaries of graduates of different universities. So if you are going to study in America first, it will be useful to study this information in terms of a subsequent career.
: search for information on specific visa issues
A work visa is far from the most ideal tool for immigration, especially when it comes to the United States. The number of H1B visas issued each year is limited, several times less than applications received from companies. For example, for 2019, 65 H1B visas were allocated, and about 200 applications were received. Who will receive a visa and who will not, is determined during a special lottery. It turns out that more than 130 thousand people found an employer who agreed to pay them a salary and become a sponsor for the move, but they will not be given a visa, because they were simply unlucky in the draw.
At the same time, there are other options for moving, but finding information about them on your own is not always easy. The SB Relocate service solves exactly this problem - firstly, in its store you can buy ready-made documents with answers to questions on different types of visas (, , which gives a green card), the process of their registration and even checklists for self-assessment of the chances of obtaining them, and secondly, you can order a data collection service for your specific situation. After listing your questions within 24, you get answers with links to official government resources and licensed lawyers. Important: the content on the site is also presented in Russian.
The main point of the service is to save on communication with lawyers, the project has a network of specialists who provide answers to questions and review published content. Such outsourcing turns out to be many times cheaper than direct contact with a lawyer from the very beginning - just to assess your chances of obtaining a visa, you will have to pay $ 200-$ 500 for consultations.
Among other things, on the site you can arrange a personal branding service tailored for visa tasks. This is necessary for obtaining some work visas (for example, O-1) - the presence of interviews, professional publications in well-known international media will be a plus for a visa application.
: search for technical vacancies with the possibility of relocation to Canada
The site publishes vacancies for technical specialists from Canadian companies that sponsor the move. The whole scheme works like this: the applicant fills out a questionnaire in which he indicates the experience, technologies that he would like to use in his work. Then the resume gets into the database, which companies from Canada have access to.
If one of the employers is interested in a resume, the service will help organize an interview and, if successful, collect a package of documents for an expedited move within a couple of weeks. At the same time, documents for obtaining the right to work help to issue, among other things, spouses, and children - a study permit.
Offtopic: two more useful services
In addition to services that directly solve specific problems in the process of emigration, there are two other resources that close questions, the importance of which becomes clear over time.
: improving written English and correcting errors
If you are going to work in the US or Canada, then you will obviously have to be quite active in written communication. And if in oral communication you can still somehow explain yourself with gestures, then in the form of a text everything is much more difficult. The Linguix service is, on the one hand, the so-called grammar checker - there are different ones, including Grammarly and Ginger - which checks errors on all sites where you can write text (there are extensions for и ).
But its functionality is not limited to this. In the web version, you can create documents and work with them in a special editor. It has a module for assessing the readability and complexity of the text. It helps when you need to withstand a certain level of complexity - not to write too simply so that it does not look stupid, but also not to be too smart.
Important factor: The web editor also has a secret mode for editing private documents. It works like a secret chat in the messenger - after editing the text, it is deleted.
: networking
In Russia, there is no such cult of networking, self-presentation and recommendations, which is present in North America. Yes, and the social network LinkedIn is blocked and not very popular. In the meantime, for the US, this is a very good way to find quality jobs.
The presence of a "pumped" network of contacts in this network can be a plus in employment. If you communicate well with colleagues on LinkedIn, publish relevant professional content, then when a vacancy appears in their company, they may recommend you. Often, large organizations (such as Microsoft, Dropbox and the like) have internal portals where employees can send resumes to HR of people who they think are suitable for open vacancies. Such applications usually take precedence over just letters from people on the street, so extensive contacts will help you get an interview faster.
To “grow” a network of contacts on LinkedIn, you need to be active in it - add current and former colleagues, participate in discussions in profile groups, send invitations to other members of groups with whom you managed to chat. This is a real job, but with proper regularity, this approach can be useful.
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Source: habr.com