An Applicant Tracking System (ATS) allows employers to collect, sort, scan, and rank job applications. Nearly every employer uses an ATS to support their recruiting and hiring of candidates. This webinar provides an overview of how to optimize your job application materials to be favorably scanned by an applicant tracking system.

Please register at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/rt/2167575440619323407

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for Career Development at career@uconn.edu.

An optional drop-in session for 2021-2022 DDI Fellows to discuss questions relevant to their projects, think through methods and ideas, test/trial approaches and programs, etc. If interested, please be in touch with Brendan Kane at dialogues@uconn.edu.

Party in the USA with Huskies International!
Get ready for a fun night of trivia about US culture. Join us on Tuesday, September 28 at 8pm via Webex https://uconnvtc.webex.com/uconnvtc/j.php?MTID=m5efafbc573953003f176225e9c847e86 Your next cup of coffee might be on ISSS. All students have the chance to win a coffee gift card by attending.

Travel with us to a new place every month! ISSS Coffee Hour brings together students, staff and faculty to enjoy some refreshments and learn more about a country, culture or student group through an informal and fun presentation. If you would like to work with ISSS to present at Coffee Hour please contact Nadine Boudissa at nadine.boudissa@uconn.edu.

In this colloquium presentation, Jordan Dez will present her dissertation research, which explores the political rights of undocumented migrants using doctrinal analysis and qualitative fieldwork in Amsterdam. Despite their formal exclusion from political rights, migrants have long been politically active community members, playing an integral role in mobilizations that impact the scope of international human rights law (IHRL), domestic immigration policies, and the effective protection of human rights. Legal scholarship traditionally focuses on migrants as objects of IHRL, analyzing whether courts and states exclude migrants based on lack of migration status. Most pronounced among these doctrinal foreclosures is the exclusion of migrants from traditional political participation rights, such as the right to vote. This research project shifts the vector of investigation, focusing on the role of migrant political activity in developing the scope of rights protection, rather than the extent of the state’s right to exclude. Calling upon the work of political theorists who explore how rights subjectivity is constituted through the act of claim-making, this research explores the human rights to expression, assembly and association, which include undocumented migrants within their scope, as political rights. To this end, Jordan is currently engaged in fieldwork with three groups of undocumented migrant claim-makers in Amsterdam to learn how they use the protections of expression (PrintRights), assembly (Amsterdam City Rights) and association (Migrant Domestic Workers unionized with the FNV) to claim other human rights. This is an alternative read on Arendt’s proverbial “right to have rights” that goes straight to the democratic paradox between the liberal ideals of the IHRL system and the violent exclusion of democratic closure on which that system depends.

For registration;
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrcO-hpjMqGNIRic2yBilCzQM__Y22AOvi

Jordan Dez is a PhD researcher with the Faculty of Law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Before joining the law faculty, Jordan practiced international and migration law in Salt Lake City. She studied anthropology at the University of Connecticut (BA), international development at the School for International Training (MA), and law at the University of Utah (JD). In her current research, Jordan combines her social sciences and legal backgrounds, employing an empirical legal methodology to study the human rights and rights claiming practices of undocumented migrants. This research project is funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

ISSS Hartford will be closed on 9/30/21

Do you want to work in the U.S. after you graduate? Are you on an F-1 visa? Attend this workshop to learn more about Optional Practical Training (OPT) and how to apply for a work permit to stay in the U.S. and work in your field of study after graduation.

This workshop is required for all students who will apply for OPT and will graduate in Fall 2021 semester. Attend this workshop BEFORE you apply for post-completion OPT.


How to join:

Meeting link: https://uconnvtc.webex.com/uconnvtc/j.php?MTID=ma0a56a6fbf401b7e34ffa59c010d2d0e

Meeting number:
120 714 3082

Password:
OPT21

Stop by for a hands-on activity and discover your 'superpower'! Meet your fellow students, reflect on your inner strengths, share ideas and resources on connecting with others and seeking support.

Hosted by ISSS and the Dean of Students Office

Online Dialogue Event:

"Responding to the Antiracism Call to Action as Educators"


An online dialogue event to connect CT educators in small breakout groups to discuss antiracist educational practices.

This dialogue is an opportunity for educators (open to all who work in education) across Connecticut to connect in small online breakout groups to discuss (1) past & current practices that have led to disparities in the provision of educational services, (2) barriers to implementing antiracist educational practices, (3) practical action steps to respond to the antiracist call to action as an educator, and (4) an opportunity to ask expert panelists' questions regarding the implementation of antiracist educational practices. Participants will receive a certificate of attendance after attending the entire duration of the event and completion of the feedback form (certificates will be issued to participants within 1 week of the event).

Register For The Event Here
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/responding-to-the-antiracism-call-to-action-as-educators-tickets-180340582537

Event supported by the Democracy & Dialogues Fellowship Program of Dodd Human Rights Impact

https://mailchi.mp/69c81bde14ab/112-educator-workshop-using-literature-in-anti-racism-education-toward-civic-readiness

Do you want to work in the U.S. after you graduate? Are you on an F-1 visa? Attend this workshop to learn more about Optional Practical Training (OPT) and how to apply for a work permit to stay in the U.S. and work in your field of study after graduation.

This workshop is required for all students who will apply for OPT and will graduate in Fall 2021 semester. Attend this workshop BEFORE you apply for post-completion OPT.


How to join:

Meeting Link: https://uconnvtc.webex.com/uconnvtc/j.php?MTID=me4ce4b6c66fd92a4d5d60e05ab0e3412

Meeting number:
2620 877 3976

Password:
OPT21

The principle and practice of popular election lies at the very heart of American democracy. But who gets to vote for our political leaders? The answer to that question has changed over the years here in Connecticut. Originally voting was limited to men of property. The 1818 State Constitution then added the word “white” in describing eligible voters. Not until the passage of the 15th Amendment could Connecticut men of color vote again. Women had to wait until 1920 and ratification of the 19th Amendment to gain that same right. Even for those who had access to the polls, the process could be complicated. For instance, Connecticut required literacy tests of voters between 1855 and 1970. Current national debates about voting reveal ongoing questions and differences of opinion.

Join us for this structured conversation on voting rights and access, a subject vital to the state’s past, present and future.

This event is hosted by the Connecticut Old State House in collaboration with UConn's Democracy and Dialogues Initiative as part of the Encounters Series.

To register for the event, please visit:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsfuqspjkjG9JRtVg_pydvxzK29q2YP5ju

Hear from current international students and alumni to learn about their experience searching and applying to jobs and internships in the U.S. Learn about their career journeys, challenges, and successes that they encountered along the way. Attendees will gain tips and strategies regarding securing OPT and utilizing CPT for internships.

This online panel discussion is a collaboration between the Center for Career Development & International Student & Scholar Services.

To register: https://icworkshops.uconn.edu/index.php?event=3255

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for Career Development at career@uconn.edu.

ISSS Hartford will be closed from 11/5-16/21

ISSS hosts a monthly virtual meeting for international students and scholars the first Friday of each month from 12:00 -1:00 p.m. We will share important news and updates for international students and scholars and host guest speakers from different academic and support departments as well as student organizations with important events and activities to share.

Join us this Friday for important updates from ISSS, UConn Payroll, the Academic Achievement Center and the Cross Cultural Connections program in Community Outreach. We will record this meeting for those students who cannot attend. Join: https://uconnvtc.webex.com/uconnvtc/j.php?MTID=m5370c0679cc1501d46f1763cff64b07e
Meeting number (access code): 2622 292 0139
Meeting password: stayinformed