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

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Product Description

Newly updated and extensively revised, this new edition of the popular reference provides all the information job-seekers need to navigate the rapidly changing, increasingly complex 21st-century international job market.

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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

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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 (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #908,627 in Books (See Bestsellers 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

By	Kristin T. Willette (Nevada) - See all my reviews

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.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars LIMITED AND TOO SIMPLE, December 9, 2002

By	David C. Cohen (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

I am currently looking for an overseas job right now, and Kocher & Segal's book has been NO help! I have wasted my time and money with this book. The information is too simplistic and the guide is not up-to-date. I graduated in May and I recommend the following books - "The Global Resume and CV Guide" by Mary Anne Thompson and "Careers in International Affairs" by Maria Pinto Carland.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars MISLEADING BOOK TITLE, November 3, 2002

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

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.