Our team looks forward to interviewing many of you in the fall!
Interview by Parke Muth
Chengdu Visit
Middlebury's Competitive Edge
Middlebury came to us with the hope that our unscripted interview—conducted in Chinese with one of our interviewers, recorded and then uploaded to our platform—would provide its students with a credible way to demonstrate their language ability to potential employers all over the world. With more and more students looking for internship and full-time employment opportunities in Asia, Middlebury’s focus on expanding employment opportunities is timely (the New York Times just ran an article examining how many westerners are looking for jobs and internship opportunities in China). With our interviews, students are able to answer upfront a threshold question that employers have: when the resume indicates that they have good Chinese, what does that really mean?
The students received a link to each interview which they may distribute as they see fit. We’re excited about how our interviews can ensure that Middlebury’s students—and by extension Middlebury’s language programs—get the recognition they deserve.
Here’s one of the videos (included here with permission).
China Association of Program Executive Directors (CAPED) Meeting at the Stanford Center
On Saturday, we had the pleasure of participating in a meeting of China Association of Program Executive Directors (CAPED). CAPED, organized by John Thomson, the director of the University of California Beijing Study Center, is a regular informal gathering of the China offices of U.S. universities, study abroad programs, high school curriculum experts and internship coordinators. This recent meeting of CAPED was supported by the Stanford Overseas Study Program and hosted by the Stanford Center at Peking University. CAPED also benefitted greatly from having the leaders of the China Association for International Education (CAFSA) in attendance. CAFSA discussed with us some exciting new developments that will greatly facilitate educational exchanges and internship opportunities.
It was an honor for us to be able to connect with so many leaders in international education. We are already looking forward to the next meeting!
