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Student Exchange Alliance,

JOBS IN STUDENT EXCHANGE, WORK N TRAVEL,

H2B, and TRAINING IN THE USA

YOUR COMMUNITY NEEDS YOU AS AN AREA REPRESENTATIVE!

AREA REPRESENTATIVE from the SEA, Student Exchange Alliance member programs are making a difference in their communities by offering families the opportunity to HOST INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE STUDENTS from over 60 countries! According to the US Department of State, the #1 diplomat for America is the thousands of families and representatives making a difference in their community for peace and understanding. AREA REPRESENTATIVES are building and developing relationships with schools, host families and students, as they ensure that the experience is a success for everyone.

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AS AN AREA REPRESENTATIVE, YOU:


Help recruit and select Host families in your selected area Assist your host families in selecting a student just for their family Build and maintain relationships with local schools Represent and promote EXCHANGE program in your community Provide support and guidance to students and host families during their experience Represent an EXCHANGE program with industry leading programming

For more information on the details, Click Here and complete the Contact Information or e-mail at gene@sea-usa.org.


THE BENEFITS OF BEING AN AREA REPRESENTATIVE:

  • Experience the joys and rewards of being a "Ambassador for America"
  • Expand your relationships, strengthen ties with neighbors, friends, civic and religious groups in your communit
  • Get to know students from many countries and help welcome them to your hometown
  • Be an integral part of a life-changing experience that families and students will never forget
  • Satisfaction of being instrumental in making a difference for diversity understanding in your community
  • Being a part of enriching the lives of those around you thru exchange

For more information on the details, Click here and complete the Contact Information or e-mail at gene@sea-usa.org.


WHAT WE PROVIDE OUR AREA REPRESENTATIVES:

  • Comprehensive training to prepare you to recruit, match and supervise students and families
  • 24/7 support from our full-time professional staff
  • Opportunities to meet and develop relationships with over 500 Local Coordinators across the USA
  • Cash and travel incentives/rewards such as the “Celebration of Success” conference to International locations
  • Industry leading PROGRAMMING, materials and support from fully staffed Regional Offices throughout the USA
  • Support from an Marketing and Outreach Office with trend settings activities on behalf of all local representatives

For more information on the details, Click here and complete the Contact Information or e-mail at gene@sea-usa.org.

OPENINGS THROUGHOUT AMERICA AS A REGIONAL ADVISOR:

Regional Advisor is an entry level into student exchange management. As a Regional Advisor you will be learning tools needed in being a manager. Your mini Region will give you the experience to develop into a Regional Manager or Regional Director for a mini Region under your direction. You will still maintain your activity in being an area representative and at the same time recruit, hire, train, motivate, supervise and celebrate with your area representatives. You will receive guidance and direction from your Regional Director.

After the opportunity to manage your own Region, you can better determine if management is what you want to pursue.

For more information on the details, Click here and complete the Contact Information or e-mail at gene@sea-usa.org.

 

WE HAVE OPPORTUNITIES AS EXPERIENCED MANAGERS:

Managers from some of the Industries leading programs have celebrated the SMG way to success. You will experience a proven system for success experienced by many very successful Managers.

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NEW- OPPORTUNITIES AS A PAID VOLUNTEER OR TRUE VOLUNTEER

An Industry first for Student Exchange is the Paid Volunteer Representative. Benefits that a volunteers local community usually receives is usually not evident to the community in exchange. Those benefits go elsewhere like to support a regional center or a showcase national office. As a Paid Volunteer Representative, the normal stipend paid to a local representative is paid to your local school club, sport club, local organization or church club you select. You will determine who receives your benefits.

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PROFESSIONAL TRAINING FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

The Professional Training program provides exchange visitors the opportunity to enhance their skills in their chosen career field through participation in a structured training program and to improve their knowledge of American techniques, methodologies, or expertise within their field of endeavor. Such training shall not duplicate a trainee participant's prior training and experience.  which are filled or would be filled by full-time or part-time employees.

The Department is hereby revising its regulations regarding, Trainees and Interns to, among other things, eliminate the distinction between “non-specialty occupations” and “specialty occupations,” establish a new internship program, and modify the selection criteria for participation in a training program. The new regulations also require sponsors to screen, vet, and enter into written agreements with third parties who assist them in recruiting, selecting, screening, orienting, placing, training, or evaluating foreign nationals who participate in training and internship programs. Sponsors must fully complete and secure signatures on a Form DS-7002, Training/Internship Placement Plan for each trainee and intern prior to issuing a Form DS-2019. The Department adopts no changes to existing flight training regulations. THESE REGULATIONS GO INTO EFFECT ON JULY 19, 20

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WORK N TRAVEL FOR INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

INTO is designated by the U.S. Department of State to sponsor participants in an exchange visitor program under the USA Work & Travel Program. INTO is able to give many US businesses with varied differences in staffing problems during the peak and of the summer or winter seasons.

  • International participants on the USA Work and Travel program are university/college students with strong English skills. Those students are authorized to accept employment in the United States for up to 4 months.

  • The participants enroll for a period that matches their official summer holiday in their home country.

  • In the US, the Summer Season is available for northern hemisphere participants from May 1st to October 1st. Southern hemisphere participants participate in the Winter Season from November 15 to April 15. After their working commitment, participants have an optional travel period to sightsee and experience American culture and landscape.

The Summer Work/Travel program is one category. The Summer Work/Travel program is designed to achieve the educational objectives of international exchange by involving bona fide foreign college/university students directly in the daily life of the people of the United States through travel and temporary work opportunities.

Vocational students are not eligible.

Program regulations permit students to repeat participation in this program more than once. Participating students are to receive the same salary and benefits as those received by U.S. citizens in the same or similar positions, and sponsors are required to inform participants about the Federal Minimum Wage requirement. Sponsors must also provide participants, prior to their departure to the United States, with the name and location of their employer, as well as information regarding any contractual obligations related to their acceptance of paid employment in the United States if employment is pre-arranged.

For those participants for whom employment has not been pre-arranged, sponsors must:

1) Ensure that participants have sufficient resources to support themselves during their search for Employment;

2) Provide participants with pre-departure information that explains how to seek employment and secure lodging in the United States;

3) Prepare and provide a job directory that includes at least as many job listings as the number of participants entering the United States without pre-arranged employment; and,

4) Undertake reasonable efforts to secure suitable employment for participants unable to find jobs on their own after one week of their arrival in the United States.

Program participants may work anywhere in the United States. However, Department regulations prohibit the placement of program participants as domestic help in U.S. households or in positions requiring them to invest their own money for inventory, such as door-to-door sales.

Most students typically work in non-skilled service positions at resorts, hotels, restaurants, and amusement parks. However, summer internships in U.S. businesses and other organizations (i.e., architecture, science research, graphic arts, publishing and other media communication, advertising, computer software and electronics, and legal offices, etc.) are allowed, so long as the internship does not exceed the program’s four-month maximum duration, and is completed during the student’s summer vacation.

For more information on the details, Click here and complete the Contact Information or e-mail at gene@sea-usa.org.

H2B INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY AND NON-STUDENT WORK OPPORTUNITY

Every year, many employers face the dilemma of a shortage of American workers for certain positions during peak seasons. Throughout the U.S. hospitality industry, hotel properties hire individuals from countries around the world under the H-2B Visa Program to help meet the seasonal needs for housekeepers, kitchen help, gardeners, etc. Participants of the USA H-2B program are legally able to work in the U.S. for a maximum of 10 months out of the year.

About the Program

H-2B Program gives an opportunity to obtain a temporary work visa for seasonal work in the USA. Offered positions do not need to correspond with one's work experience or field of study. Work permit is issued for minimum of 4 months and a maximum of 10 months with a possibility to extend it for two more terms.

Compensation

Employees from foreign countries will receive the same wages as the US citizens. Most of the employers pay starting from 7.50 to 10.00 per hour.

Accommodation

The employee is paid exactly the same as an American employee in the same position and they do not receive any housing assistance. To the extent possible, we will provide information on how to find accommodation in the U.S. The cost of accommodation can range anywhere from $300-$600 a month for shared accommodations, depending on the location. Rate of pay is higher in cities where cost of living is higher.

Visa

The length of visa depends on the length of the contract with employer, but applicant may obtain the H-2B visa for maximum of 10 months at first with a possibility of extending it for up to 10 month increments for a total of 3 years. Note: The visa applies only to one employer and position. This means that the employee cannot have a different job and work for a different employer other than the one stated in the visa.

The H-2B Work USA program includes: Recruitment, screening and placement of employees into hotel properties Drafting of employment agreements Help processing the Department of Labor certification application Processing the H- 2B Visa petition to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Providing a Participant Handbook and Inside the USA guide for each employee Ongoing 24-hour support for employers and employees

For more information on the details, Click here and complete the Contact Information or e-mail at gene@sea-usa.org.

Opportunities from SEA in Student Exchange as a local representative to Overseas Work Experience Programs providing training, work-n-travel, H2B, with travel options in the U.S.A.