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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—“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

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