Congratulations to Nardos Kebede for earning the Rangel Fellowship!
The Rangel Graduate Fellowship is a program that aims to attract and prepare outstanding young people for careers in the Foreign Service in which they can help formulate, represent and implement U.S. foreign policy. Each year, the Rangel Program selects about 40 outstanding Rangel Fellows in a highly competitive nationwide process and helps support them through two years of graduate study, internships and professional development activities, and entry into the Foreign Service.
At UMBC, Nardos is a political science major, a McNair Scholar, a Sondheim Scholar, a Writing Center Tutor, and a member of the Honors College. She has been an intern with the U.S. Foreign Service where she worked in the Bureau of African Affairs within the office of East Africa inside the Department of State. She also participated in Georgetown University's Political Science Predoctoral Summer Institute.
At URCAD (2023) , she presented an original, SRI funded political science research project (under the mentorship of Dr. Cynthia Hody) as a poster titled "The Effects of Different Birth Rates upon Industrial Output within Nigerian States".
Congratulations Nardos!!
For more information about the Rangel and other prestigious scholarships, email Dr. April Householder at aprilh@umbc.edu.
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UMBC is part of the International Career Collective (ICC), a group of over 20 leading universities across the U.S. Together, we’re hosting the ICC Career Expo to help you meet employers actively seeking international talent with your unique skills and perspectives!
Event Details:Registration: Opens Friday, November 8, at 12:00 PM EST.
Important Note: After registering on Handshake, you must sign up for group sessions or 1:1 meetings with employers to connect with them. Seats are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Again, students are limited to signing up for FOUR 1:1 sessions.
We hope to see you there!
Navigating the job market can be a daunting process for any student, but international students in particular often face additional challenges — from dealing with visa requirements and work authorizations, to understanding cultural differences throughout the hiring process. These obstacles can make the job search even more overwhelming, but with the right tools and resources, international students can find success.
If you’re an international student, we’re here to help! Here are some tools that international students can use as they encounter the current job market landscape.
Research. My Visa Jobs.com provides H-1B Visa and Green Card reports for every year, listing the top Visa sponsors (that is, employers) via a number of different filters including occupation, job title, location, industry, college, petition status, etc. If you’re just starting out on your job search journey, this could be a good tool to use to determine which employers in targeted industries and/or locations of interest are open to hiring.
Search On-Campus. If you’re on an F-1 Visa, on-campus jobs are the most accessible employment opportunities available to you. Therefore, you need to know where to find them. This blog post by the Career Center lays out five tips to help international students locate on-campus employment. By knowing where to look, you can get a jump start on your search before the wave of applications roll in.
Search Off Campus: If you’re an international student able to look off-campus for a job or internship, you may want to check out GoinGlobal. With their job search function, you’re able to search 16+ million worldwide opportunities in various industries. So, whether you want to stay in Maryland or go elsewhere, GoinGlobal is a great tool to see what’s out there.
Explore Career Paths: Not quite sure how to get to where you’d like to go in your career? Look no further than Steppingblocks, a digital career counselor tool that uses data from real-life alumni and professionals to show you various alumni career trajectories. You can also explore skills, education, and employers for particular industries as well. For more information, check out this blog post.
Network and Learn: When it comes to the job market, information is power. The more you know, the more strategic you can be. Additionally, your network means everything in the job search. The more people you know, the closer you’ll get to landing a position. Therefore, if there are events available where you can do both, it’s important to seize those opportunities when you can. On November 11-15, the virtual International Career Summit is taking place, jam-packed with workshops, presentations, and panels designed to equip you with what you need to succeed in your job search. Learn more about the Summit and be sure to register!
We hope these tools and resources can help you confidently pursue opportunities, connect with employers and alumni, and smoothly transition into the next phase of your professional journey.
Hey CyberDawgs!
I am once again asking you to attend another meeting, from 7:15 PM to 8:15 PM in ILSB 118.
Dread it, run from it; destiny arrives all the same.
Tonight's topic is Reverse Engineering. For all of you who love staring at your respective decompiler/debugger, or for those of you who'd like to explore the REV category on CTFs, make sure to drop in. We look forward to seeing everyone tonight!
The meetings are hosted virtually if you can't make it in-person: https://umbc.webex.com/meet/CyberDawgs. We'll also be sharing the meeting recording and slides.
As a reminder, this week's submissions for the CyberPaws CTF challenge will close at the start of tonight's meeting. Remember to submit your flag! Also, if you would like a hint, you can DM a board member to receive one.
And as always, Don’t Do Crime.
Respectfully,
Izzy
CyberDawgs Vice President
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