How to Find Opportunities to Work Abroad
A job overseas can add more than work experience to your resume. You will have the opportunity to experience a different culture and to teach others about your culture, while being paid. International job opportunities exist in many industries, including business, hospitality, relief and development. Find opportunities to work abroad by matching your interests and skills with employers that have international operations.
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Look at jobs in various industries to decide whether you have enough experience to compete for positions that will allow you to work abroad. Visit the Transitions Abroad website to get an overview of the basic qualifications for international entry level jobs.
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Use the resources at Interaction and the Foreign Policy Association's Global Jobs Board to find work abroad opportunities with international humanitarian emergency and relief agencies. These sites also provide links to individual agencies and the multi-national companies and organizations that often have international jobs.
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Consider working for large businesses that have overseas operations or international contracts. These companies need employees with many different kinds of education, not just business degree holders. Find international corporations in Fortune or Forbes magazines.
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Investigate cruise industry, travel and hospitality positions for flexible jobs that often provide housing and meals, along with your salary. Search for these jobs on the Jobmonkey website job boards.
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Check out our government's international job opportunities with the Foreign Service and the U.S. Agency for International Development. The State Department's website has information on these jobs and links to organizations with work abroad opportunities for young and old.
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Sign up to have newly posted international jobs sent to you by email or a viral feed. Register and save your job searches at newspaper websites that often have international opportunities.
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Tips & Warnings
Jobs teaching English abroad are often easy to qualify for, even with little work experience.
Many government jobs and relief agency opportunities require a two- to three-year commitment because of the expense involved in sending an employee to an international location.
