There is incredible overload of job information sources available, but there is no more productive and valuable source than your friends, associates, and family. A single lead, personal touch, and effort from a person that cares make magical things happen. On the other hand, to be effective and successful job seeker everyone should be responsible, patient, and active that involves persistent communication and learning experience through various sources and personal experiences.
Below are some effective sources of information for those interested in entering the international business arena.
Electronic Sources
Printed Materials
Non-Profit Organizations
Recruitment Agencies
International Internship Agencies
Networking (resource link needs further development)
Family (resource link needs further development)
The following websites are about the best sources of information for international living, studying traveling, career planning, and job seeking. Used collectively, users will have most, if not all, of their inquiries answered with the most up-to-date data and thinking in both the academic and working world.
International Jobs and Careers Publications and Resources. www.transitionsabroad.com/listings/work/careers/
This is one of the most extensive websites on international living, study travel and work with numerous links to hundreds of websites covering a wide range of topics relate to these topics and providing copious information, ideas, suggestions, and internet sources.
The Riley Guide for International Job Opportunities. www.rileyguide.com/intlbus.html
This website, like its US-based counterpart, provides the most comprehensive resource for international career planning and the job search. It contains thousands of online sources on subjects ranging from career selection to landing employment overseas.
The Riley Guide. Employment Opportunities and Job Resources on the Internet.
The Riley Guide is a tremendous online resource for anyone seeking employment or career-related information. It contains almost every aspect of career planning and the job search and provides copious sources and links to hundreds of websites concerning those subjects and many more too numerous to list here. Margaret Riley Dikel has done a masterful job editing, organizing and delivering this best-in-class resource. “If you're searching for a great career resource make this your starting point."
- Michael Allen, Editor-in-Chief, www.ceotrak.com
PRINTED SOURCES
The following books focus on traveling, studying, living, and working abroad. Consulted concomitantly, they provide some of the most exhaustive information and studies on the aforementioned topics and can answer many user inquiries concerning the latter
Beaver, William.
Overseas Americans: The Essential Guide To Living and Working Abroad. 2nd ed.
Overseas Americans is the essential handbook for
Directory of American Firms Operating in World Countries 18th ed.. 3 vols.
An excellent resource for global job hunters, these volumes provide the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of the CEOs, World officers in charge of US World operations and Personnel Directors of more than 3,000 US corporations with 36,000 subsidiaries in 196 countries as well as valuable information about their principal products or services, number of employees, etc.
Directory of World Firms Operating in the
12 ed.
Like its counterpart, this volume provides job seekers with the names, addresses of 3,250 parent companies in the specific World country as well as those of its
____________________________. International Jobs Directory: 1001 Employers and Great Tips for Success, 3rd ed.
Very thorough and complete both in job ideas and descriptions! Gives the in's and out's of many top notch organizations with international divisions and many smaller companies/organizations not as well known of. Good book for those trying to work their way around the world, or just to get some international experience by taking their current skills abroad!
____________________________. Jobs for People Who Love to Travel: Opportunities At Home and Abroad. 3rd ed.
The book has good job clues, and hunting guides, but some of the," what employers are wanting in you," needs to be re-researched
Kruempelmann, Elizabeth. The Global Citizen: A Guide to Creating an, International Life and Career.
If your dreams of career success include jobs in
Lauber, Daniel and Kraig Rice. International Job Finder: Where the Jobs are
Students, recent graduates, and others attracted by work opportunities in World countries will benefit from this new source, whose purpose is "to gather together in one place the broadest collection of effective online and offline resources for finding international jobs." Claiming that using the Internet is more effective for obtaining international jobs than domestic ones, Lauber, the author of several guides on finding jobs in the public and private sectors, discusses in detail the advantages of utilizing the Internet while job hunting. These advantages include searching databases of jobs that fit one's employment and location criteria, placing one's name in r‚sum‚ banks, signing on for e-mail notification, speeding the transmission of resumes, using news groups for networking opportunities, and obtaining current country information. Lauber also warns readers to beware of potential pitfalls and gives advice on how to recognize and avoid scams. Some 1200 online and print resources are organized into worldwide gateways and into eight geographical regions further subdivided alphabetically by country. Each resource is covered by a paragraph describing its services, its strengths, any charges to users, and recommendations on how to use it most effectively. Both a "Resource Index" and a "Topic Index" are useful in narrowing one's search to occupations and countries of most interest. Readers need only beware that most graphics illustrating web-site pages are separated from their related text by several to hundreds of pages and that a few advertisements for recommended print resources appear. This well-balanced reference is strongly recommended for academic and public library career collections.
Mueller, Nancy Work Worldwide: International Career Strategies for the Adventurous Job Seeker.
Lots of people think about having an international career, but to most it seems impossible. This book helps turn those dreams into reality. Work Worldwide shows readers how to research, apply for, and get an international job. It includes quizzes to help define goals, culturally specific information for doing business in a World country, and advice for long- and short-term assignments; and it explains the basics of moving to a World country, such as visas, currency, and transportation.
Riley Dikel, Margaret and Frances E. Roehm. Guide to Internet Job Searching, 2002-2003.
This definitive guide to harnessing the Internet's powerful research capabilities has been thoroughly updated to include the latest online job searching techniques. Using Guide to Internet Job Searching, 2002-2003, absolutely anyone with access to a computer can immediately conduct a timesaving, low-cost, high-impact job search. Co-published with the Public Library Association, the Guide to Internet Job Searching offers you expert advice on how to find and use online bulletin boards, job listings, recruiter information, discussion groups, and resume-posting services. Its easy-to-use format and user-friendly tone make this an excellent tool if you are an experienced surfer and Internet newbie. Includes:
- Local, state-by-state, government, and international resource listings and opportunities
- Online career resources
- Specific career path information
- Reviews of some of the more popular job listing and recruiting websites
Roberts,
This revised 12th edition of the comprehensive guide to all kinds of work abroad provides essential information on permanent career opportunities around the world for people of all walks of life from school leavers still deciding on a career to fully qualified professionals. The types of employment covered include working in agriculture, fisheries and the environment; banking and accountancy; information technology; journalism; the law; medicine and nursing; oil and gas; secretarial, translating, and interpreting; teaching; transportation and tourism; voluntary work; and with the United Nations. The book lists the professions and trades in demand overseas and gives all the facts on over 35 different specific careers with detailed information on recruitment and sources of jobs including consultants, agencies, advertising, the internet, and finding work by making use of contacts such as professional associations. In addition, there are individual chapters presenting career opportunities in 50 countries which include, for each country, essential information on immigration and residency regulations; the cost and standard of living; language; health; welfare; and education, as well as coverage of employment prospects there. Also included in these chapters are details of employers and agencies specializing in placements in that country and listings of hundreds of overseas subsidiaries of international companies. The Directory of Jobs & Abroad features a comprehensive index of employers and agencies as well as information on how to find work by conventional means, advice on how to find the jobs that aren't advertised by using the Creative Job Search.
Segal, Nina, and Eric Kocher International Jobs: Where They Are, How to Get Them. 6th ed.
Covers a broad spectrum of employment in the federal government, business, communications, banking, nonprofit organizations and foundations, and multinational organizations such as the United Nations.
Summer Jobs Abroad. 2006, 37th ed
The definitive guide to summer jobs abroad contains details of over 30,000 vacancies in over 50 countries from sports instructors, bar staff, holiday company reps and kibbutz volunteers to English language teachers, tour guides, farm hands, archaeologists and fruit pickers. Includes full of who to apply to, period of work, what qualifications details of wages, work permits and insurance.
Thompson, Mary Anne. The Global Resume and CV Guide. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000.
Going Global provides extensive career information for 23 countries on topics such as: job resources, resume/CV writing guidelines, industry trends, work permit/visa regulations, business resources, interview and cultural advice. In-country researchers have compiled more than 1,500 pages of content. More than 500 employment and career resources listed in each Country Career Guide. Global Career Advisors available to provide one-on-one career counseling.
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