International Jobs : Where They Are, How to Get Them (International Jobs : Where They Are, How to Get Them, 5th Ed) [Paperback]

Eric Kocher (Author), With * (Author), Nina Segal (Author)

Book Description

Series: International Jobs : Where They Are, How to Get Thme, 5th ed | Publication Date: December 15, 1998

For twenty years, International Jobs has been the authoritative guide to launching—and enhancing—an international career. Newly updated and extensively revised, this fifth edition of International Jobs provides everything you’ll need to navigate the rapidly changing, increasingly complex twenty-first century international job market. For the first time, this indispensable guide contains web sites for each organization—and a new section on how to most effectively use the Internet in a global job search—“day-in-the-life” essays that tell you what some of these jobs are really like, and honest, practical advice to help you sort out which jobs present actual opportunities, and which just sound good on paper. With new chapters on consulting, non-profits, advertising, public relations, and multimedia, this edition of International Jobs is a must-have resource for today’s savvy students and professionals alike.

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For twenty years, International Jobs has been the authoritative guide to launching and enhancing an international career. Newly updated and extensively revised, this fifth edition of International Jobs provides everything you'll need to navigate the rapidly-changing, increasingly complex twenty-first century international job market. For the first time, this indispensable guide contains web sites for each organization and a new section on how to most effectively use the internet in a global job search and 'a day-in-the-life' essays that tell you what some of these jobs are really like, and honest, practical advice to help you sort out which jobs present actual opportunities, and which just sound good on paper. With new chapters on consulting, non-profits, advertising, public relations, and multimedia, this edition of International Jobs is a must-have resource for today's savvy students and professionals alike.

"The best resource guide for the year 2000 and well beyond." - Lisa Tomlin-Houston, Corporate Recruiter and Career Consultant

"International Jobs now has everything: from practical answers to first questions and appealing "a day-in-the-life" stories from people in typical international careers, to succinct descriptions of more than a hundred organizations active in international affairs. This is one book that students of international affairs and their advisers cannot afford to be without." - Deborah Brautigam, Associate Professor, School of International Service, The American University

"This book, so well organized and elegantly written, should be on the desk of anybody planning to cross national borders, be it in a corporate or individual context. I recommend it highly: it is most apropos in our globalizing world." - Hans Decker, former CEO of Siemens, N.A.

"Many books are written on this topic. Few offer new insights. Fewer still are based on first hand knowledge of the market. Kocher and Segal's International Jobs is perceptive and informed by real world experience." - Gerald Sheehan, Associate Dean, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

"Searching for careers at the crossroads of the fast-moving global marketplace can be as bewildering as it is exciting. Fortunately for every job seeker, this new edition of International Jobs provides the perfect road map. It is full of straight talk and useful suggestions that go a long way to ease job search anxiety by pointing clearly and concisely to the large number of open doors in the global marketplace. I wish this reference had been around when I began my international career." - Thomas J. Trebat, Managing Director, Emerging Markets Research, Citicorp Securities, Inc.

"A lively, authoritative, and comprehensive guide designed to crack the complexity of the global job market." - Robin Lewis, Associate Dean, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

About the Author

Eric Kocher served for twenty-two years with the Foreign Service and was subsequently Dean of Career Education at Columbia146s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). He is now a career counselor for the Princeton Club in New York. Nina Segal was Assistant Dean and Director of Career Services at SIPA for nine years. She has consulted for the Ford Foundation and UNDP, and is currently Manager of Cross Cultural Services at Windham International in New York.

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Basic Books; 5th edition (December 15, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0738200395
• ISBN-13: 978-0738200392
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,896,251 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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67 of 70 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars International Jobs, June 15, 2000

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Kristin T. Willette - See all my reviews

This review is from: International Jobs : Where They Are, How to Get Them (International Jobs : Where They Are, How to Get Them, 5th Ed) (Paperback)

This is a good book if you are looking to find a job in banking, government, internships, teaching, law, Nonprofit Org., or Communications. What about the other fields of work? It also concentrates a lot in the United States. I found it was about 3/4 US and 1/4 International. I can get more info off the web than by reading this book. But it definetly has good info for the careers above. But not for the average joe who has a B.A. in let's say the Arts, Music, Design, Computers etc. I might look elsewhere if you are in one of these fields.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars MISLEADING BOOK TITLE, November 2, 2002

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Josh Stein (New York, New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: International Jobs : Where They Are, How to Get Them (International Jobs : Where They Are, How to Get Them, 5th Ed) (Paperback)

If you are witless enough to find this book useful, you should probably stay home. I can not believe that this book was even published. The title is very misleading - 1) It does not provide any information on WHERE the international jobs are, instead it provides a surface-level overviews of certain industries. In fact, all of the information can be obtained for free from the internet or from your college career office. 2) In terms of the information presented on how to get the international jobs - one word - NETWORK. Yes, that is the advice presented in this book on how to get the job.

The most skewed section in the book is on the United Nations. The author claims to have been a consultant (not an employee)to the UN but clearly does not understand how the UN works. It is impossible to send in your resume and get a UN job or consultant contract without knowing someone who will get you a UN job. The author forgets to state in the book that her husband works for the United Nations.

This book fails on so many levels. You would be better served to forget this book and do some internet research on your own.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Boring, trite, rewarmed, phoney, November 23, 2002

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Kelly Anderson (Council Bluffs, IA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: International Jobs : Where They Are, How to Get Them (International Jobs : Where They Are, How to Get Them, 5th Ed) (Paperback)

This book was just stupid. It's chock full of Pollyanna patter, feel-good-isms that don't say anything significant, and empty promises based on phoney-sounding anecdotes. I have read many books regarding International employment by better authors. Segal's book is just plain silly -- if you're interested in just reading a lot of fake "you can do it" verbiage, they might be for you.