What is the position of overseas study planner?

Study abroad planner, also known as study abroad consultant, is a new profession. Its main function is to provide study abroad solutions for overseas students, including comprehensive background orientation, determination of major and future career choice direction, study abroad examination planning, internship and part-time guidance, academic background improvement, document making and interview counseling, visa training, domestic and foreign survival guides and a series of personalized talent planning programs.

I. Career prospects

Because the situation of studying abroad has been heating up in recent years, this profession has been sought after to some extent. In the initial study abroad market, it was the intermediary who did this business. A considerable number of overseas study agents act as agents for some low-end schools abroad, and then publicize them at home, resulting in many China people learning nothing after going out. With the development of the Internet era and the transparency of information, study abroad agencies have slowly entered a trough, and at this time, many real-time and professional study abroad consulting companies have emerged, and study abroad consultants are the backbone of their growth.

Second, the professional characteristics

Basic generalization

Different from the low-end route and agency-oriented strategy adopted by previous study agents, study consultants are more inclined to rely on their own grasp and experience of overseas information to let international students apply to overseas universities that are more suitable for them and have better level. At this point, American study abroad consultants are at the forefront. Different from other countries, the number and maturity of American universities are far ahead of the world level. Under this premise, American study consultants grow faster in the same industry and are particularly skilled in the skills of studying abroad.

Strengthen one's major

Because it is impossible for every consultant to become an expert in studying abroad, it is also a strategy to give full play to his own strengths and develop in the direction that others are not good at. For example, go to East Europe and South America, a relatively unknown country, to study abroad and study professionally. Then we can expand and improve some characteristics of the other country, such as immigration, transportation and logistics, characteristic minerals and so on. Really avoid the heavy and light, and find another way.

Third, face the problem directly.

unstable

Because of the instability and flexibility of the study abroad consulting business. The most common situation is that this study consultant worked in company A last year, in company B this year and in company C next year. As a result, consultants constantly change their working environment, adapt to new skills and fields and national applications, and finally fail to specialize in their skills. Therefore, the biggest challenge of this profession is how to maintain its own advantages in an unstable working environment and stick to it professionally. And we think this needs to be done by study abroad consulting companies and study abroad consultants.

qualifications

Generally speaking, an excellent consultant studying abroad must have more than 3 years' working experience, and at least 50 clients who have handled it personally can be called qualified consultants. However, due to the huge talent gap in this industry, too many fresh graduates enter this industry and are packaged as experienced consultants by the company, which leads to excessive pressure, but their learning ability and growth ability are limited. How to standardize and train new consultants is also one of the biggest problems that plague all consulting companies.