How do you apply to US jobs without a work visa?
Personally, I think I'm definitely a good candidate to be hired. I have spent half my life in the US, graduated from a very reputable american college, and had 3 years experience working in Cisco (with STEM OPT). Currently, I'm back in korea working for LG. My career path has now leaned toward cybersecurity in the auto industry (it is what I am doing now), so I want to work at Google, Apple, Tesla, Qualcomm, etc. However, the roles that fit me don't really exist in the korean offices for those companies. How would I apply to the roles that are only offered in the US without a valid work permit? Could there be a way to negotiate that I could work remotely for 1 year and join the office with a L1 visa?
I too joined Msft for L1 transfer but forget about L1. Most posts I see there is layoff in the US. Why would they hire a foreign talent when they have a large pool of local candidates who are ready to join immediately without visa requirements.
To be fair, I do think I bring an edge that is very rare with local US talent due to the fact that the auto industry doesn't really revolve around US anymore, so I think I could potentially make a case. But even then, I wanted to know if it would still be feasible.
OP thats what people currently in US think as well that they brimg an edge which is very rare in local market! But feel free to go ahead and apply but you will be competing with 100 others for even shitty jobs as well
Stay in LG or go to Samsung. With thousands of citizens and visa holders in the United States desperately looking for a job, who will hire someone like you?
I'd prob go to Hyundai if I wanted to switch locally. Hyundai is becoming a leading company in korea that could overtake samsung soon, so it would certainly not be bad, but I consider it more like a safety option. Even the best company in korea is meh.
Hyundai has a an image problem in the US with insurers, including Allstate, State Farm and Progressive, dropping coverage of many models due to theft caused by being able to start the vehicles with a thumb drive.
Get a crappy masters
You just apply. Go to the site, click “apply” send your resume. If they wanna hire you they’ll figure out the visa.
It doesn’t work like that in the real world.
I’m from Canada, worked just like that for me. Companies have legal departments + immigration lawyers who do this full time. If there’s an avenue for a work visa they’ll move forwards and interview, if not they won’t. Also they’ll know more than randoms on Blind.
What’s your YOE and current TC ?
Do you have proofs of competency proving that you are a strong candidate or it’s just based on “I think”.
In theory you just apply at their websites and click the box that say “Requires visa sponsorship”. In reality, your expectations don’t align with reality. Google and Apple require 3 days/week in person; Tesla 5 days; Qualcomm is laying off. Remote work is in the past, not that they’d even allow you to do it from another country.
If you are okay to sacrifice your job career for a few years, one of the safe options to “enter” the US job market again will be joining the Korean companies in US. Work there, get sponsored for GC and apply the companies you originally wanted to go.
OP: where were you born?
You can try but highly unlikely. One way to do that is get hired in US based company and ask for transfer. May be in Korea or any other western countries- Germany, UK, NL or for that matter even India if like.
"One way to do that is get hired in US based company and ask for transfer. May be in Korea or any other western countries- Germany, UK, NL or for that matter even India if like." That's essentially what I'm asking when I say I would work remotely for 1 year and join the US office as L1 visa. It would really be working for the Korean (or any other) office only on paper because the korean office would not have any team members related. So essentially it would be working remotely for 1 year. It doesn't have to be Korea. I would gladly relocate anywhere for a year, but usually there's no relevant team outside US.
LG if you are saying that you will be a US employee working remotely in Korea, then that is not possible. You can be a Korean employee of the company at a Korean team, work for a year and then request a transfer to a US team as a US employee. If your transfer is approved, you would need to apply for L1 visa.