Work authorization and visa sponsorship settings for F-1 and OPT

Tsenta answers work authorization and visa sponsorship questions from the settings in your profile, so set them once and check them before you apply. If you are on F-1 or OPT, choose your visa type, answer whether you are authorized to work and whether you will now or in the future need sponsorship, and Tsenta uses those answers on every form it fills and in your matches.

This article explains Tsenta's settings. It isn't immigration advice. For questions about your status, ask your school's international student office or an immigration attorney.

Set your work authorization

1. During setup, Tsenta asks Where can you work? Add each country you would take a job in. You can change this later in Profile, under your work authorization details.
2. For each country, answer Are you legally authorized to work there, and Will you now or in the future require employer sponsorship there.
3. Choose your authorization basis: Citizen, Permanent resident, Temporary work authorization, Not currently authorized, or Other.
4. Choose your visa type, such as F-1 (Student), OPT, CPT, H-1B, J-1, L-1, O-1, TN or E-3.
5. If you are on OPT, describe your OPT status, for example post-completion.
6. Save, then check the answers on your first few application records.

How Tsenta uses your answers

• On application forms. Yes or no questions about work authorization and sponsorship are answered from your settings. Citizens and permanent residents are answered as not needing sponsorship. For temporary statuses, such as F-1 and OPT, Tsenta uses your answer to the sponsorship question.
• In your matches. Turn on the I need visa sponsorship filter, shown as Sponsors Visa, to hide roles that say they don't sponsor. Roles that say nothing about sponsorship still appear, so you don't miss them.
• On job details. When Tsenta has a sponsorship signal for a role, it shows a label: Sponsors visas, No sponsorship or Case by case.
• In Auto Apply. The same sponsorship filter is available in Auto Apply.

Sponsorship signals, not promises

Tsenta shows the sponsorship signals it knows about. It can't guarantee that an employer will sponsor you. Sponsorship is a decision an employer makes about a specific candidate for a specific role, often well after the application. What Tsenta controls is that your application is complete and answers these questions the way you set them.

Check before you send

Employer questions vary. Some ask about authorization in ways a yes or no setting doesn't cover. For your first applications, turn on Review before submit so filled forms wait for you on systems that support pausing, and open each application record to check how the authorization questions were answered.

For more on searching as an international student, see Tsenta for international students.