Between the countless hours spent scrolling through job sites, pouring over resume edits and rewriting cover letters, job seekers have more than enough challenges on their hands. But for international students, those troubles only scratch the surface of their job hunt experience.
In the wake of COVID, international student enrollment in the 2020-2021 school year dropped by 15%, according to the Institute of International Education. Diana Vicezar, who spent her first semester of college online in her home country of Paraguay rather than at the California-based Pitzer College where she’d planned to be pre-2020, knows firsthand that the lack of support for international students became only more glaring over the course of the pandemic.
