International Opportunities: Leverage your Talent and Skills
Yes, with international opportunities, your future can take on a whole new meaning. You can leverage your talent and skills to work anywhere in the world and make your career like a constant eye opening vacation instead of a day by day crawling trudge to the same office, in the same city, with the same faceless people.
How does one do this? How does one get to work in those beautiful and challenging places? We will share with you how we have done this.
You, too, can do it! Stop planning a 3 week vacation and start planning a new life working in new countries with new cultures and ideas wrapped all around you. Be a part of the expanding international community that builds bridges across every continent.
Look at these people working internationally
Join the international development community
As Tennyson so magically said in his poem Ulysses:
``All experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades
Forever and forever when I move.``
Map of the World
Mark your Place
Where in this world are your dreams focused? Which region? Which particular country is engaging you right now?
Are you interested to work internationally?
Is this a dream?
International jobs are not really for everyone. Not many are willing to get away from their homes of many years and work in an unfamiliar environment. In fact, often it is very hard to get people with the right skills to go on international assigment. But once they catch the bug, they won't stay home either.
Which of These Cities Do You Want to Work In?
Where International Jobs Are
Maybe you are one of the lucky ones. You get a job in the city you dream of living in. Maybe some are luckier as they discover cities they never dreamt about but went where the international opportunities are and found their dream place. Sometimes you have to serve days in Nepalganj to get to work in Paris. Stop dreaming. List the countries you are interested in. Group these countries by regions. Go to their embassies if these are close to you and get all the information you can about working there. What do you need to know if you want to work there? How easy is it to find jobs in those cities? countries? regions? Ask them for contacts in your area of expertise. Remember, you have an expertise you can always improve. So, find out where the need is and upgrade in that area.
Catch the Trade Winds in Your Sails
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
Finding international jobs
What areas would you be interested in?
International jobs abound and depending on your interest and skills, you can find almost any international assignment if you are seriously looking for one. The key is to start working now. Remember, often...the choice is where the job is.
Is international development your interest?
Development banks and development agencies offer many opportunities
Check out the websites of the following regional development banks. In these you will find information on the jobs most needed in those countries or regions you have chosen. Some of these regional development banks are: Asian Development Bank, InterAmerican Development Bank, African Development Bank and, of course, the World Bank.
You can also find in their sites the companies that are constantly bidding on international projects. Send your cv to these companies as they are constantly looking for consultants to include in their bid. You need to be in their data base as they search for matching skills when the bids come out and most of the time, they have to come up with their bids within a short time frame. Besides, they bid on projects all the time and if you have the skills, chances are you will be contacted.
If you have all the time, constantly check the sites of these banks and you will see the companies short listed for projects opened for bidding. Give these companies a gentle nudge of your strong interest to be part of the bid or send them your cv if you have not yet done so. These regional banks also recruit individual consultnats so send them your cv as well.
There are other non-governmental organizations working internationally like the Red Cross, Save the Children, OXFAM, Aide et Action and many others. The United Nations has its agencies such as UNDP,UNESCO, UNICEF, WHO, ILO and many more that constantly offer international jobs. Go to their local offices in your area and find out about their programs.
You can first volunteer with VSO or the Peace Corps just to get experience. Start searching for international development organizations in your area. They, too, have a network they might connect you to. You will be amazed at how all these work.
The Regional Development Banks
What's the latest news?
- IMF/World Bank Mission Outlines Conditions
- By Emmanuel Kendemeh, 17 May 2012 The leader of the Joint International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank (WB) and African Development Bank (ADB) review mission to Cameroon, Mario de Zamaroczy on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 in Yaounde outlined conditions ...
- Joyce Banda brings Malawi back from the brink
- Britain, Germany, the United States and the African Development Bank all froze or cut aid to Malawi under Mutharika over his human rights policies or his obstructive approach in dealings with the IMF and World Bank. Britain cut aid after Mutharika ...
- AfDB and IFC to Host Multilateral Development Banks' Conference On Private ...
- The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the International finance corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, will host the 3rd Multilateral Development Banks' Conference on Private Sector Integrity from 10 to 12 May, 2012, at the Movenpick ...
- Nigeria gets $85m funding for renewable energy projects – AfDB
- ... and climate-resilient development through scaled-up financing channeled through the African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Inter-American Development Bank, and the World Bank Group.
Why not try international consulting?
Opportunities abound
Read the Economist Magazine or the International Herald Tribune for international jobs advertized there. You don't need to have a PhD to do for some of the consulting jobs. They need people who have the skills and who can work well with people.
The international development organizations mentioned in the previous module all offer international consulting opportunities. But the private sector has plenty of opportunities for international consulting. Make sure you have the necessary internationally recognized certification. When you have the skills in demand worldwide, you will be able to choose the jobs you like and the cities, too. So, update those skills. Learn more skills.
Work overseas for your company
What a learning opportunity
Your company right now may just be the place to search. Find out from your HR department. Maybe, there is a branch in one of those cities you like to be in. Or, your HR people are often in touch with other recruiters. They may just have the job for you.
What about government?
Diplomacy or military
Or, work for the military and get international posting. Or take the test in your Foreign Affairs Ministry or Office and start your career as a diplomat. You will have a chance to live in many international posts your whole career life.
Work as a diplomat
Try diplomacy in international relations
- Insight: EU foreign policy chief Ashton stays out of the spotlight
- As the head of EEAS, set up in 2010 to develop a common foreign policy and build an EU foreign service, Ashton has one of the trickiest jobs in Europe. The foreign service has the potential to give Europe a bigger voice in the world, but has had to ...
- Major powers seek Iran concessions at Baghdad talks
- But Western diplomats will be wary of past failures to carry out extra inspection deals between the International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran, and their patience is wearing thin. They want Iran to cease work at the Fordow site and export its ...
- Ryan Crockers Afghanistan: Mission Impossible
- ... as interim leader of Afghanistan by an international conference at Bonn, Germany. Just 10 days later, one of America's top troubleshooting diplomats landed in Kabul. It would be his job to reopen the US Embassy, which had been shuttered since 1989.
- Amre Moussa: A Mubarak holdover makes his case
- The following year, he joined Egypt's foreign ministry, launching a long career in diplomacy. He served as Egypt's ambassador to the United Nations as well as to India before Mubarak named him foreign minister in 1991. Moussa was popular in that role, ...
What others say about international jobs
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- 50 jobs to be added to the Air Cargo Hub at Fort Wayne International Aiport
- FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Logistics Insight Corporation (LINC) announced on Tuesday that they will be investing over $1 million to expand operations at the Fort Wayne International Airport Air Cargo Hub. In addition to a physical expansion that will ...
- International Labor Office Warns On Employment
- The International Labor Office of the United Nations released its new ?Global Unemployment Trends For Youth 2012? It is one more forecast of a ?lost generation? of productive workers. As young people around the world go without jobs for several years, ...
- Qantas splits domestic and international operations
- TICKY FULLERTON, PRESENTER: Qantas is preparing for yet another overhaul announcing plans to split its domestic business from its loss making international operations. Yesterday the carrier cut 500 jobs from its heavy maintenance facilities in ...
- Foreign students enjoy new summer job protections — but what about Americans?
- ?The international students are really grateful to be here and have a job, while American students have so many other activities and demands on their time now,? he said. ?I truly wish we didn't have to rely so much on international labor, ...
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International development issues, projects and experiences
Many opportunities in international affairs
- Russia's new government to address problems in development
- From the remarks of the newly-inaugurated president who said Russia is entering a new stage of development, local analysts believe the new government will maintain a policy continuity and try to address old and new problems in the new period.
- Mongolia's MDGs: early achiever for reducing the infant mortality
- Economic dynamism has shown its great potential to reduce poverty and close development gaps across the region,? she said. Steven Barnett, Assistant Director of the International Monetary Fund Office for Asia and the Pacific, warned that although ...
- G2E Asia promises to have an impact
- It brings together professionals from gaming operators around the world, for the latest hardware technology and management solutions to help businesses tap the potential of regional markets and prepare for challenges in future development.
- GEA Geothermal Web Recognizes Students Expanding International Geothermal ...
- Recognizing the importance of geothermal research around the world, the GEA Geothermal Web is also highlighting three students who are working on international geothermal projects in Peru, Iceland and Nigeria. These students are researching and ...
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Experiences in Doing Business in other Countries
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Readers, please share some of your experiences in doing business or working in other countries. Just the highlights...some of those which you always remember. Of course, some of those which you think might help our readers.
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KathyT
Jan 17, 2012 @ 10:28 am | delete
- My experience may not really count as "International" since even though I worked in Antarctica, it was for a US company (as part of the US Antarctic Program, funded via the National Science Foundation). I would very much like more info on finding a true international opportunity - contract work would be fine too... Love this topic! :) You are spurring my enthusiasm! :) Kath *Blessed*
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SereneSea
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- I think this is a window to excellent opportunity for those who want to explore jobs in international market, not many want to venture out of their country for many reasons -security, loneliness, culture differences, living away from family and homesickness...
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Phillyfreeze69
Mar 8, 2011 @ 7:22 pm | delete
- aesta1, I enjoyed reading your very resource filled lens on the many opportunities to work in the international arena. The book "International Jobs and How To Get Them" is an eexcellent guide for one who is contemplating finding employment overseas.
We live in a global community and the village is becoming smaller each day...Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton said quite succinctly "It takes a village to raise a child"...and to add to her quote...to find a job!
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nort43
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- I've worked in more than 60 countries. I can't imagine a life of quiet, motionless rot. The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth!
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BigGirlBlue
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- I haven't had the experience of working in another country but I had a friend who went to Japan to teach English an he loved it. He stayed there for four years before returning home.
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