The Big Guide To Living And Working Overseas: 3,045 Career Building Resources (Fourth Edition with CD-ROM) [Paperback]

Jean-Marc Hachey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2004 | ISBN-10: 0969600135 | ISBN-13: 978-0969600138 | Edition: 4th

The BIG Guide to Living and Working Overseas is THE WORLD S BEST international career guide, written mainly for college students and young professionals, it also applies to career changers and world travelers. The Fourth Edition Revised (Sept 2007) contains 34 new articles on the CD ROM plus 2 news chapters 50+ Workers Abroad and Spousal Employment Abroad. At a whopping 1,800 pages (including CD-ROM), The BIG Guide contains expert advice on gaining experience through study and internships, succeeding and adapting to overseas living, career planning, job searching, international resumes, international interviews, specific professions abroad and 3,045 carefully researched organizations offering professional jobs and international career resources. The BIG Guide is your ticket to success and adventure!

MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE BIG GUIDE: The guide has five parts that represent the five phases of successfully building an international career. PART ONE delves into the experience of LIVING OVERSEAS, uncovering the unique skills international employers look for in an employee.

PART TWO explains HOW TO GAIN EXPERIENCE and profiles programs to help you volunteer, study, travel, and most importantly, find a professional internship abroad.

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 North America and Europe!

PART FOUR describes the ins and outs of various PROFESSIONS internationally, including engineering, health, development, teaching, 50+ workers, law and others.

PART FIVE provides detailed CAREER DIRECTORIES. We have carefully profiled over 3,000 organizations by sector, including private, government, nongovernmental, and intergovernmental organizations. These organizations regularly higher for overseas work, so you wont find General Motors or Pepsi in this list.

RESOURCES: Throughout The BIG Guide, you will find over 830 fully annotated resources in 63 topical bibliographies. No other book offers the rich resources and insightful descriptions that you ll find here documenting every aspect of international work and living.

A LAST WORD: The BIG Guide is packed full of current, carefully selected information to make your international job search a success. The information has been compiled by a team of experienced professionals who have lived and worked overseas. With insightful how-to chapters and extensive career building directories, The BIG Guide will help you get connected with the right people in the international sector of your choice.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"I followed the BIG Guide advice and learned to write an international resume and how to sell my international skills." -- Recent Graduate, University of Waterloo, Oct 2004

"No other guide review as many international career resources or provides as much in-depth advice." -- Bill Nolting, Work Abroad Editor for Transitions Abroad Magazine and director of University of Michigan International Center Oct 2004

"this book is the number one reason I found a job as an engineer in Africa" -- Carmen Brubacher, University of California at Berkeley, Oct 2004

From the Author

A WORD FROM THE AUTHOR: As a young professional graduating with a Masters degree in Political Science, I was filled with a desire to go overseas. When I announced to my professors that I wanted to work abroad they were unified in their response. "Impossible! There are no jobs. There are no entry-level international positions!" Well I ignored their discouraging comments. Within three months I found five international positions. Three were well-paying professional jobs, and two were excellent volunteer assignments. I accepted a position with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and had a fascinating experience setting up refugee camps in what was then Zaire.

During that first search, I realized that the international job search is different. The résumé, the interview, the hiring process—all are unlike a domestic job search. International employees need a unique set of characteristics to succeed while abroad, and this sets them apart. International employers want to know if you have what it takes to be effective in a cross-cultural work environment.

This insider-information is not hard to figure out, but most international employers and employees guard it as a complex secret. In THE BIG GUIDE TO LIVING AND WORKING OVERSEAS, I have demystified the international job search. I provide step-by-step advice on everything from living overseas to gaining experience, understanding the search process, and even discovering where the jobs are.

My first book was published in 1992 with 500 pages. By its third edition, the book was a packed 1,000 pages. This new 4th edition (web and print editions) has even more expert advice, carefully researched profiles, and valuable resources! There are thousands of international positions and programs out there.

Thousands of young professionals are joining the global economy each year and leading exciting lives of work, study, internships and travel abroad.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 1104 pages
• Publisher: ISSI Inc./Intercultural Systems; 4th edition (October 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0969600135
• ISBN-13: 978-0969600138
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.6 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #532,624 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Career booster, March 22, 2006

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Mark Laprairie (Washington DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Big Guide To Living And Working Overseas: 3,045 Career Building Resources (Fourth Edition with CD-ROM) (Paperback)

The BIG Guide is targeted specifically to college students who want to start building international experience while in school and who have the long term goal of finding a professional international job. The book starts with the premises that you need to gain international experience first by volunteering, interning, studying, and/or traveling abroad. While expensive, this book is most likely the world's best international career guide with detailed chapters on how to write an international resume, conduct interviews, sell your international skills, ...plus it contains a massive number of annotated resources and descriptions of all types of organizations hiring internationally ...no other book covers
these topics as well as this one.
M LaPrairie, Washington DC

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This works for Americans too!, January 15, 2007

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T. Williams "lagunalover" (Laguna Beach, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Big Guide To Living And Working Overseas: 3,045 Career Building Resources (Fourth Edition with CD-ROM) (Paperback)

Although you might be able to find some of this info on the internet, it would take years. The guy who wrote the last review missed the mark. While the roots of this book are Canadian, I found that more than three quarters of its 1,600 pages are applicable to Americans and well worth the investment when compared to what else is available in the US.


For example The BIG Guide has the largest available list profiling US NGOs (with more than 400) and more than 300 US private sector firms which regularly hire for international positions. These organizations are indexed in the book and their carefully written profiles are located on the CD-ROM.

...another gem of The BIG Guide is its professional career building advice, offering un-paralleled expertise when compared with other US publications, ---my favourite chapters are on international job hunting (international resumes etc) and the skills about living overseas --- forty one chapters in all. No publication does international careers better than this guide.

I used an earlier version of this guide and I have recommended it to many people over the years and they all have been thrilled.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Full of references for young people, August 23, 2006

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Jess - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Big Guide To Living And Working Overseas: 3,045 Career Building Resources (Fourth Edition with CD-ROM) (Paperback)

Good book, a lot of references, but mainly for young people just out from college.