Being an international student in the USA, the struggle gets real fast. However, you have to find a way to find your professional edge. All you need is some professional insight, community engagement, and genuine guidance to move past all the odds.
The United States has long been considered to have some of the best educational resources in the world, which attracts students from around the globe to come here to pursue higher education. My home country China is the second most populous country in the world, and nearly 300,000 students come to the United States each year to attend school. And I am one of those students.
Despite people may have different goals for studying in the U.S. and some of us are inevitably in a constant process of discovering ourselves in terms of determining what path to choose that is best for our future development, my goal has always been straightforward, I want to build up my profile and develop my core competencies to gain a competitive advantage in global job markets.
However, it is easy to say than get it done. There are always difficulties along the way. And I have encountered two major ones so far in moving forward to the goal.
Language barriers
Cultural differences
An opportunity for me to practice my global competencies
Personal capital investment
Social capital investment
Professional capital investment
Utilization for accumulated capital
about the author
Shengqiao Sun was born and raised in Shanghai, China.
He is a second-year student at Northeastern University, majoring in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance and a minor in Consulting.
He has developed an interest in international affairs through his earlier experience in Model United Nations and thus he keeps up with global news every day.