The Big Guide To Living And Working Overseas: 3,045 Career Building Resources (Fourth Edition with CD-ROM)
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.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Full of references for young people
Good book, a lot of references, but mainly for young people just out from college.
5 Stars This works for Americans too!
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.
4 Stars It’s a BIG guide
This guide does cover many, if not, all the major aspects of living and working overseas, mainly from an American / Canadian point of view.
There is a lot of information packed into ~3 pounds of paper (it IS heavy). There are many handy tips and practical tips, especially for first-timers looking to live and work overseas. But a lot of it can be obtained elsewhere (e.g. from the net). Overall, I would say, if you are after an all-in-one guide / reference book, this is by far the most comprehensive guide in print form I’ve come across on the market for the American / Canadian market.
The key additions to the 4th edition comes in “soft-copy” in a CD-Rom - the printed version remains more or less the same. I found the previous editions sufficiently adequate - unless you are looking for something specific that wasn’t covered in the previous editions.
3 Stars Good….if you’re Canadian
This book has a lot of information but I’ve pretty much seen everything in here just by searching online.
AND the sucky part about this book is that it’s geared for Canadians. Tons of the organizations are Canadian organizations that only recruit Canadians.
SO, this book is OK but you can basically just search the internet for international jobs and NGOs to find the info you want. Nothing innovative really.
I’m using it as a bookend now.
5 Stars Career booster
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
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