Navigation Bar Checkout View Cart E-mail Us Maps Publications Search Home

The Big Guide to Working and Living Overseas, 4th Edition

Now in its 4th edition, with overwhelming success in Canada, and growing international popularity, The Big Guide to Living and Working Overseas offers successful strategies and practical information to lead you through each step of your international job search, from start to finish. The Big Guide has been carefully written and researched and includes a companion CD-ROM.

The guide has five parts that represent the five phases of successfully building an international career. If you are a young professional and follow these steps, you can be sure that you will exponentially increase your chances of finding the right program to build your international portfolio and be ready to land a professional international job.
Big Guide to Living and Working Overseas
  • Part One delves into the experience of Living Overseas uncovering the unique skills international employers look for in an employee. After reading these chapters, you will also understand why international living is addictive!
  • Part Two explains How To Gain Experience and profiles programs to help you volunteer, study, travel, and most importantly, find a professional internship abroad. These programs are absolutely essential to helping you develop your International IQ — and you’ll have a lot of fun at the same time!
  • Part Three tells you everything about The International Job Search. Here, you’ll learn how international résumés and interviews are unique and how to sell your international skills. These insightful chapters have made us famous in Canada!
  • Part Four, Professions, describes the ins and outs of various careers internationally, including engineering, health, development and others. There is even a chapter on teaching English to some of the one billion people in the world who want to learn the language. Learn how an English teaching job can be a stepping stone to other international careers.
  • Part Five provides detailed Career Directions, carefully profiling over 3,000 organizations by sector, including private, government, nongovernmental, and intergovernmental organizations. Each description outlines the organization’s international work, the qualifications required for employment, and the number of international staff. Includes the full address, areas of specialization, regions of operation, and job categories for each organization. The guide even provides an assessment of their jobs page!
All purchases of software are final. More information can be found in our Return Policy.

Written by Jean-Marc Hachey. Published by Intercultural Systems, 2004.
   
Catalogue No. 0-9696001-3-5
Price $59.95
Format Softcover + CD-ROM
Pages 1057
Language English only
  Add to Cart
Price and availability subject to change. Shipping and applicable taxes extra.
Questions about this product? Please e-mail us.
This page last modified: October 12, 2004

Career Guidance main page
What's New · Home · Search · Books on Canada · Canadian Maps and Charts · Ordering · E-mail Us

©Federal Publications Inc., 1998 - 2008
165 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 3B8
Phone: (416) 860-1611 or toll-free 1-888-433-3782 · E-mail: info@fedpubs.com