I am looking for new opportunities in biotech and pharma. I currently have BS and MS in biomed engineering and biotech and have 4.5 years life sciences and biomed hands-on lab and project management experience in academia. When I apply for jobs that I am 90-100% qualified for, with personalized cover letters etc for each position, I am getting rejected in 12hrs-2days and/or being ghosted when I try to contact someone. I am on F1 post opt. Is that the reason or am I doing something wrong?

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Maybe your resume is not beating the ATS (Applicant Tracking  System). Look online for apps that compare keywords from your resume to those in the job description. The higher the match, the  better.

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I tried Jobsscan before. However, even though I had matching words, it didn't give a high score. Maybe something else was missing?

I would imagine if you just graduated that would give you a year to work as work experience in the US. I imagine after that you would need to obtain some other work related visa or have had your employer start you on the green card process.

I would imagine many companies may not be willing to do this given the current economic climate.

Also, you have quite a lot of experience to be looking at lab tech jobs, perhaps positions you are over qualified for?

Is your college careers office helpful?

Technically after a year, I can obtain STEM extension for 2 years without a sponsorship from the company as long as they are e-verified by the government.

As you mentioned, current economic climate leads many companies to be more hesitant against non-citizens and it is completely understandable. However, being eliminated from the interview process even though I was on last 2-3 candidate stage (happened couple times before I got my current job) while company would and will have at least 2.5-3 years without any sponsorship or paperwork, makes the job search a bit harder mentally since they sometimes put one through 3-5 rounds of interviews to say that they actually cannot hire with the visa status as myself.

I contacted my Master's University and they were helpful regarding explaining the process etc. Unfortunately, their connections tend to not to hire internationals for last couple of years in general.

If you can suggest any other resources that I can reach out to make this process easier, I would like to learn about it!

Thank you for your reply, I appreciate it.

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