Job Hunt

[Quad City 0]

I came on K-1 VISA, after getting my work permit, i attempted several jobs but just couldn't land any. I discovered i had something "unique" that many Americans do not have...that's the ability to speak and write in at least eight languages including English. So, I started looking for online language interpretation jobs where i could work in the comfort of home. I landed one within a week that pays me $30/hr. This is something worthy your husband looking into. Good luck!

[Habibati & Habibi 21]

On 11/15/2017 at 4:55 PM, Quad City said:

I came on K-1 VISA, after getting my work permit, i attempted several jobs but just couldn't land any. I discovered i had something "unique" that many Americans do not have...that's the ability to speak and write in at least eight languages including English. So, I started looking for online language interpretation jobs where i could work in the comfort of home. I landed one within a week that pays me $30/hr. This is something worthy your husband looking into. Good luck!

could you please tell me the company name you work with, me myself I am a Translator/interpreter and I am looking for a job.

could you please help me.

thank you

Edited November 23, 2017 by Habibati & Habibi

[Ash1541 0]

On ‎11‎/‎15‎/‎2017 at 4:55 PM, Quad City said:

I came on K-1 VISA, after getting my work permit, i attempted several jobs but just couldn't land any. I discovered i had something "unique" that many Americans do not have...that's the ability to speak and write in at least eight languages including English. So, I started looking for online language interpretation jobs where i could work in the comfort of home. I landed one within a week that pays me $30/hr. This is something worthy your husband looking into. Good luck!

Can you please tell me the name of the company you work for? Can you suggest any other companies? The certification for some of these jobs can be expensive and we are having a hard time making ends meet as it is. He's tried a couple translation jobs as well, and still, no interviews offered...let alone call backs. We are going on 7 months and over 400 applications. I have even referred him for a teller job at the bank I work for as I have a good record here...nothing from here either. Getting the Visa was easy...finding work has been a nightmare.

[moosy 139]

If he speaks fluently Russian, then he should perhaps go for that, as Quad City has advised.

 

In addition, is he looking in the right places? For example, jobs on LinkedIn, and jobs on Glassdoor get you more serious people than something on Indeed (which focuses less on highly qualified people).

 

I am going through a similar process, and it seems with larger companies, I keep getting stuck at the phase wherein they refuse your own PDF, and only focus on education etc that you need to fill in yourself. I get filtered out immediately because they do not recognize my (high quality) university. I am now going to try to send my resume in pdf form straight to them as well, as I know for a fact that I WILL come out if they actually bother to look at my resume instead of having some recruiter screen out people.

 

I recently had some luck being at the two highest ranking candidates (I still didn't get it, but it was about the other person being a slightly better fit with his experience), at a smaller company. It was so disappointing not to get it. They told me that their recruiter had actually filtered me out at the start, but that my resume popped out to them. I scored the highest on their jobfit-tests. Recruiters suck haha.

 

But yes, it's difficult to find a job as an immigrant, and he's from Russia, so they already have quite a lot of scaredycats about that for no reason, especially in this climate.

I wish him all the luck!