How to Get a UK Work Visa With No Lottery (H-1B Lottery Reject POV) - w/ Hari
Getting hired at Amazon is one thing. Getting hired into a role that actually fits you is the harder part.
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Visas + Study Abroad - 12 Episodes
O-1 visa strategy, H-1B lottery math, OPT deadlines, study abroad decisions, reverse culture shock, and the real logistics behind moving countries. If you are an international student or immigrant trying to figure out your next move between India and the US, this hub gets to the part that actually matters. 12 episodes and counting.
How To Engineer Your Path to an O-1 Visa - w/ Harsh
Every year, hundreds of thousands of international students and tech workers face the same terrifying math: there are 85,000 H-1B seats and over 400,000 applications. But what if you didn’t have to play the lottery at all?
How To Deal With A Lay-Off While on OPT (& Get A New Job Within 90 Days) - w/ Aman
How He Stopped the Clock & Got Hired in 40 Days (The Blueprint) Description: Getting laid off is a punch to the gut. Getting laid off on an F1 Visa with the 90-day unemployment clock ticking?
How To Convert Career Fairs/Networking Events into Job Interview-Generating Machines - w/ Hrohaan
In this episode I talk with Hrohaan Malhotra, a Data Scientist at Wells Fargo who actually landed his role through a career fair. Hrohaan rewired the usual career-fair playbook: he didn’t show up to collect business cards — he showed up to build one great, memorable interaction.
How To Prepare for US Non-Immigrant Visas (ex-US Visa Officer POV) - w/ Duden
How To Prepare for US Non-Immigrant Visas (ex-US Visa Officer POV). This episode follows the first moves, tradeoffs, and lessons that show up before a story looks clean from the outside.
How To Be an Intl Student - w/ Gurasis
People get strange about accents because they confuse sounding local with belonging. Gurasis talks openly about being judged for how he spoke, the pressure to sand down your voice, and the bigger question underneath it: who gets to decide what 'professional' sounds like?
How To Build A Strong Profile For Masters In USA - w/ Akshansh
Akshansh joins Naman for a conversation about build A Strong Profile For Masters In USA. In this episode, my nephew, Akshansh who has been a featured not-expert on this show in the past asks me questions about how he can walk a path similar to the one I walked when I started my Masters from the US about 5 years ago from Purdue University before moving to Chicago for work, where I've been living for the past 3 years my links/socials: If visas + study abroad is the mess on your desk right now, this episode is a strong place to begin.
How To Deal With Reverse Culture Shock (Moving Back To India After Masters In The USA POV) - w/ Ratik
What happens when you move back to India after a master's in the US? Ratik Dutta talks through reverse culture shock, the job market for returning graduates, and the strange work of settling back into a place that is already supposed to feel like home.
How To Realize The Ultimate Rendition Of The American Dream (Journey From Indian Railways To SpaceX) - w/ Sanjeev
Some career stories sound made up until you realize they were built one unglamorous step at a time. This episode follows a mechanical engineer from Indian Railways to SpaceX without pretending the path was neat, linear, or somehow inevitable.
How To (Move To &) Live in the UAE - w/ Kaushik
A lot of Dubai talk is either glossy or cynical, which usually means it is not very useful. Kaushik cuts through that and talks about moving to the UAE for a PhD, what living there actually felt like, and why the Gulf makes sense for some people and not for others.
How to (Move To &) Live in France - w/ Devendra
Moving to France sounds glamorous until you are the one trying to build a life there in real time. Devendra talks through SPJIMR's global management program, the move to Paris, and the small frictions that shape a new country more than the postcard version ever will.
How to (Curate &) Maximize your MS in US Experience (MBA pov) - w/ Shivangi
A master's in the US can be useful, expensive, confusing, and wildly overrated all at once. This episode is about getting more out of the move than a degree and a few blurry orientation photos, especially if you are trying to make the whole thing pay off in the real world.
