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With preeminent partners including top universities, professional associations, expatriate networking groups, consulates and trade offices, and the support of the European Commission, ICF reaches one of the largest communities of international engineers, scientists, managers and experienced professionals in technology.

Linked In is an online network of more than 10 million experienced professionals from around the world, representing 130 industries. Your network consists of your connections, your connections’ connections, and the people they know, linking you to thousands of qualified professionals. Through your network you can:

Find potential clients, service providers, subject experts, and partners who come recommended
Be found for business opportunities
Search for great jobs
Discover inside connections that can help you land jobs and close deals
Post and distribute job listings
Find high-quality passive candidates
Linked In is free to join. We also offer paid accounts that give you more tools for finding and reaching the right people, whether or not they are in your network.

The Magellan Network is designed to help companies meet the challenges of the internationalisation of their HR by providing them with the possibility to exchange information with other International Human Resources professionals, mobility managers and Comp & Ben managers.

A lively website www.magellan-network.com gives members access to Technical information about mobility practices and trends:
- Country Guides (detailed guides on labour law, social protection, immigration, taxation)
- Legal and technical updates including alerts on international crises
- Tools (Mobility Managers Handbook, Notes & Studies)
- Forum to exchange information with any member in the world at any time.

Today, over 150 multinational companies form the Magellan Network. If you wish to join our Network or would like more information please e-mail us at communication@magellan-network.com

The European Commission is represented in the United States by a Delegation in Washington.

Recognizing the importance of American support for European integration, the Union's founders opened an information office in Washington in 1954. In 1971, it became a Delegation with full diplomatic privileges and immunities. The Head of Delegation was accorded full ambassadorial status in 1990.

The Delegation represents the European Commission in its dealings with the US Government for all matters within EU competence or purview. It reports on US developments to headquarters in Brussels and acts as a liaison with other international institutions in Washington, DC. The Delegation functions like an embassy.

These Delegation officials represent the European Commission at government, business, press, academic and other meetings throughout the United States.

Germany's Federal Employment Agency

With some 90,000 employees, the Bundesagentur Fur Arbeit, or "BA", Germany's Federal Employment Agency is the largest provider of labor services in the German labor market. Its primary goal is to bring people and jobs together. Besides making placements in jobs and in training positions and paying unemployment benefits, the Federal Employment Agency also offers vocational guidance counseling and provides a separate service for employers who are trying to fill job vacancies. The International Placement Services (ZAV) in Bonn is a special office that acts as an international personnel agency for special client groups and markets, placing skilled personnel, executives and junior staff worldwide.

The Europe+ Foundation

The Europe+ Foundation is dedicated to the development of tools for the attractiveness of Europe and its regions. The Foundation's independent, high level think tank provides assessments and makes recommendations in support of reforms favoring the attractiveness and competitiveness of Europe that are the focus of the Lisbon Agenda. The momentum generated by these policy reviews and the influence of the Foundation is in the service of growth, employment, research and innovation. The Europe+ Foundation is also the organizer of the annual World Investment Conference in La Baule.

Swissnex San Francisco connects the best of many worlds by bridging the knowledge, energy and competencies in science, higher education, art and innovation between Switzerland, the USA and Canada. Initiated by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education and Research (SER) as a public-private venture, and managed in cooperation with the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs, swissnex San Francisco is an annex of the Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco. Vital financial support is provided by public and private sponsors sharing swissnex San Francisco's commitment to "connecting the dots".

The German Scholars Organization (GSO) was founded in June 2003 as a not-for-profit organization for German academic professionals abroad. It has headquarters on two continents, in Germany's capital city of Berlin and near Stanford University in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA. Our primary focus is to forge a network of links between German Scholars working abroad and the research and job markets of Germany. By fostering this network we intend to reverse Germany's "Brain drain" and turn it into a "Brain gain". As a non-profit organization we are dependent on financial aid and contributions from our sponsors and partners. All of our board members work without compensation from the organization. Our scholars do not incur membership dues and we offer all of our services for free.

The San Francisco Chapter of the French-American Chamber of Commerce (FACCSF) is a non-profit, member driven French-American business community throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.Through our numerous Networking programs and Events in San Francisco and in the Silicon Valley, our members benefit from the opportunity to exchange ideas with other high-level professionals in a wide variety of fields with business relations in both France and the United States.

Regrouping more than 300 members, the Chapter is the principal forum in Northern California for French and American business leaders to meet and discuss common interests. Through their implication in the High Tech, the Life Sciences and other committees, members enjoy new ways of Networking. The FACCSF organizes 50 events per year! In addition to networking, Membership in the San Francisco Chapter of the FACC offers numerous benefits including access to the Trade Services division, which assists French companies looking to expand into American markets and the Employment Services division which helps to identify qualified candidates to fill open positions within our members' companies. Members also benefit from the FACC Network that includes 19 other Chapters in the United States and Paris and offers over 4,000 business contacts.

GABA is a member-driven non-profit organization that fosters transatlantic knowledge-sharing and networking among German-American and Californian business and tech communities. GABA is dedicated to encouraging German-American business and trade. Meet with our members through an online membership database and in person at our weekly, monthly and annual networking events.

GABA activities and events focus on critical business, technical and leadership issues, with specific industry programs on Life Sciences, Semiconductor-IT, Telecommunications, Software, Media-Entertainment, Human Resources, Venture Capital, Legal Corporate Governance, Automotive, Clean Technology and Airline and Aerospace industries. GABA organizes 25-30 business events per year and reached more than 2,000 attendees at events in 2008. GABA members represent all facets of the international professional business community including high-tech and life science firms, trade specialists, bankers, venture capitalists, insurance, government officials, attorneys, translation firms, marketing firms, consultants, and entrepreneurs. For more information and our event calendar, please visit www.gaba-network.org.

BAIA (Business Association Italy America) is an independent, non-profit, member-based network whose mission is to create tangible business value by establishing a professional forum through which information, knowledge and opportunities can openly and effectively be exchanged between the business communities operating in the United States and Italian business interests. BAIA's new approach to business networking is based on an Open Source Governance model. BAIA aims to enjoy the support of anyone who shares the BAIA vision of an open exchange network.

Growth Resources focuses on the most important asset of every company--people--to develop management, organization and human resources excellence. We provide, train and assist in the use of decision-making tools and the metrics necessary to monitor effectiveness at all levels. To attain this goal, Growth Resources is a member of PI Worldwide, a global consultancy with more than 7000 clients across 138 countries. The Predictive Index (PI) is our flagship program for providing managers with new skills and insights, as well as the knowledge to meet the expectations of today's competitive global markets.

Young Entrepreneurs Initiative (YEI) is a platform for mentoring and networking aimed at US-based entrepreneurs who understand the importance of internationalizing their vision and their activity and who wish to set up a technology venture in France. YEI specializes in putting entrepreneurs in touch with the resources they need to start a venture in France and develop their activity in Europe: technology, market channels, capital, skilled and qualified labor, supply chain partners and so on. We work with the top 20 innovation and entrepreneurship networks, mentoring organizations and affiliated service providers in France.

"They Made It" by Dr. Angelika Blendstrup, Ph.D. If you plan to immigrate to the U.S. and establish yourself in Silicon Valley, or if you are just curious to find out what makes these extraordinary individuals interviewed for the book perform so incredibly well, you can read these foreign-born professionals' interviews and gain insight into the fulfillment of their ambitions and dreams.
As we all know by now, there is no "secret sauce". But, there are a number of "recipes for success" with specific ingredients that if applied, may smooth the path upward.These recipes are the result of conversations with foreign-born (as well as US) Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who tell it as it is. Each leader tells a unique, personal story of how s/he came to the US and ultimately made it.
You can order "They Made It" at www.happyabout.info or at www.amazon.com

"Communicating The American Way" by Angelika Blendstrup, Ph.D. and Dr. Elisabetta Ghisini, is a guide on U.S. business communication practices intended for international professionals who already possess good English skills, yet want to become more effective communicators in the U.S. workplace. Based on real-life corporate and professional situations, the book offers practical advice and tips both for the seasoned international professional and for the young foreign-born graduate. It is a must read for professionals who want to propel their career forward in the US. You can order "Communicating the American Way" at www.happyabout.info or at www.amazon.com.

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