1. FYE – Why These Assignments?

2. Plan Now to Have Options Later

3. Post-Graduation Options
Return to your home country
US Job, requiring a US work visa (e.g. H1B1 status)
US Graduate School

4. Are you 100% sure you’re going home and won’t need US contacts?

5. We want you to have options!!

6. What Are Employers Looking For?
Each year NACE, National Association of Colleges and Employers, distributes a survey asking employers to identify the skills they look for on a candidate’s résumé.
What do you think are the top 5 skills desired by US employers?
Highly likely that students will identify job/career/money as reason. Explain we’re going to examine what employers say they want

7. What Are Employers Looking For?
Problem-solving skills (82.9%)
Ability to work in a team (82.9%)
Written communication skills
Leadership
Verbal communication skills/Work ethic

8. What influences an employer’s decision to hire one candidate over another?
Academic major
Leadership roles
Participation in extracurricular activities
High grade point average

9. FYE: Three Main Components
Practicing Verbal English Creating Networks/Gaining Professional Skills/Planning
Accessing Resources
Exploring Campus Resources presentation
Create Your Own Assignment presentation
Event presentation
Class Participation
American Student panel
Involvement Fair
Event Presentations
Resume assignment Parts I and II
American student panel
Expert Presentations
Exploring Campus Resources presentations
In-Class Topics (e.g. Plagiarism, Citation)

10. Networking/Professional Experience Building
Involvement Fair
Get you connected to clubs/organizations
Academic organizations may help with internships/career
Potential leadership opportunity
Event presentations
Network with American students and faculty
Learn more about the local culture
Résumé assignments
Identify areas where you are making good progress, but also where you are lacking
Will be used when applying for internship/jobs/requesting letters of recommendation
Update at end of each semester
Use to plan next four years at UConn
Now is the perfect time to be developing the skills that employers say they want! These two activities will help get you started.

11. Practicing Verbal English
Exploring Campus Resources
Requires you to interact in English with Americans
Increase your skills related to working in a group
Practice giving oral presentations
Create Your Own Assignment and Event Presentation
Practice giving oral presentations by yourself
For the Event presentation, provide information to your fellow students
Class Participation
Builds your comfort/confidence in using verbal English
Allows us to hear your opinions, problem-solving, and questions (important in US University Classes)

12. Assessing Resources
Campus-Partner Presentations and Exploring Campus Resource presentations
Introduces you to campus resources that could be useful
Builds contacts for you in these offices
In-Class Topics
Introduces academic skills expected of students here (e.g. plagiarism, works’ cited)
Identifies helpful campuses offices and resources (e.g. Q-Center, Academic Achievement Center)

13. Questions?