CCIE – California Colleges for International Education

GoinGlobal Overview

GoinGlobal is the market leader in providing anytime, anywhere resources designed to fast-track and facilitate job searches both at home and abroad. Since our founding over two decades ago, our proprietary content has been used by more than 1,000 of the leading academic institutions around the world.  

 

GoinGlobal’s resources include expert advice for more than 120 worldwide locations on such topics as: employment trends, industry projections by sector, work permit regulations, professional associations, social networking groups, resume/cv guidelines, interview and cultural advice. Our research is constantly updated and gathered by a team of subject-matter experts. 

 

Listings of the top employers in 196 countries are also part of the online system, in addition to a worldwide job and internship search system with more than 16 million opportunities. Postings can be searched in the local language, as well as in English. A proprietary H1B visa search engine, which identifies American companies who have historically sought to hire international talent, is another feature of the GoinGlobal service. Our OPT tool kit features a database of leading OPT employers sortable by company name with step-by-step guidelines that help students navigate the OPT application and authorization process.

 

A unique enhancement to the GoinGlobal experience is CultureWizardTM, an online learning solution that helps internationally-minded jobseekers enhance their global skills through culture guides for 160 countries, videos and webinars, articles on global business best-practices, quizzes and cross-cultural self-assessments, as well as WorkingWithTM cultural certification courses on business best practices by country – all supportive to international students, study abroad, and global professionals.

 

We are confident that GoinGlobal can support your organization by providing career resources that:

 

  • Instantly expand geographical knowledge and expertise
  • Saves research time that can be repurposed for more value-added activities
  • Improves student and alum’s ability to effectively identify, pursue and land the career opportunity that best meets their objectives — whether at home or abroad.

 

MARY ANNE THOMPSON 

Founder and President

 

Mary Anne Thompson founded GoinGlobal as a result of her own experiences job hunting in Sweden. Prior to launching GoinGlobal in January 2002, Ms. Thompson spent several years in Stockholm counseling other career-seeking expatriates. She was a columnist and speaker for MonsterEurope, and the career columnist for Svenska Dagbladet, the largest newspaper in Sweden. Mary Anne is the author of The Global Resume and CV Guide, the first book on the market with job hunting guidelines for 40 countries (John Wiley & Sons – publisher, 1999).

 

Mary Anne also served as an attorney and adviser to President Ronald Reagan in the White House and served in a similar role for Secretary of Transportation, Elizabeth Dole. She was appointed by former President George Bush to the U.S. Small Business Advisory Council in recognition of her many entrepreneurial activities.