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Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Advantages To Work In Other Countries/ Jobs Abroad

There are lots of advantages to working in another country. There are also, however, many issues you need to consider as well.

What are the advantages of working abroad?
Employers will be impressed by your initiative in gaining a job abroad, your motivation to follow this through and make it a success, and the self-reliance inevitably developed by working abroad. The ability to communicate and work as a team with people from a broad range of cultural backgrounds is an invaluable skill that will look great on your CV.
Working within a different social, political and economic system will give you new insights and a different perspective.
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Things to consider before making a decision
The clearer your objectives, the more likely you are to succeed. Why do you want to work abroad? What are your motivations? What do you hope to achieve? How will you make the most of it?
Be realistic about time scales. The process is time consuming and requires perseverance, determination, good organisation and planning, and careful thought. Also, bear in mind that getting meaningful work experience for a period of only a year can be difficult - your year abroad can easily become two or three. If you go with a partner, remember that they may face challenges and difficulties too - you will need to take this into account.
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Language skills
The level of language skills required will depend on the country, the occupation - a job in IT, for example, may be possible with more limited language skills - and the employer. However, you can demonstrate your cultural adaptability and sensitivity by learning the relevant language.
Being a foreigner with English as a mother tongue can have its advantages but be aware that many international firms prefer to hire local labour. If you are not competent in the necessary language, then check how much this will affect your chances. You may be able to take a course at your university or a local institution or possibly in your destination country in order to get up to speed, although costs can vary widely.

New language skills can take a long time to acquire. Even if English is widespread in the workplace, you will be limited socially if you do not have a reasonable command of the necessary language.
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A reality check
- Degrees from the UK or Ireland do not necessarily carry the same value abroad.
- In many countries, degrees are considered to be vocational. Some employers are not used to employing arts and social science graduates for commercial functions, although this is beginning to change and is less true of multinational companies.
- Students abroad usually spend longer getting their degrees. Employers may be wary of taking on younger graduates and sceptical of a degree that has been gained in ‘only’ three years.
- British graduates are often dismayed to find that their degree is regarded as ‘only a Bachelors’. In the US, for example, Masters degrees are much more common than in Britain.
- Extracurricular activities may play a smaller part on CVs and application forms in other countries than in the UK. Any work experience, however, is highly regarded.
- Not all professional qualifications are recognised abroad.
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How To Find Opportunities To Work Abroad
A job overseas can add more than work experience to your resume. You will have the opportunity to experience a different culture and to teach others about your culture, while being paid. International job opportunities exist in many industries, including business, hospitality, relief and development. Find opportunities to work abroad by matching your interests and skills with employers that have international operations.
Instructions
Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Steps

Step One
Look at jobs in various industries to decide whether you have enough experience to compete for positions that will allow you to work abroad. Visit the Transitions Abroad website to get an overview of the basic qualifications for international entry level jobs.

Step Two
Use the resources at Interaction and the Foreign Policy Association's Global Jobs Board to find work abroad opportunities with international humanitarian emergency and relief agencies. These sites also provide links to individual agencies and the multi-national companies and organizations that often have international jobs.

Step Three
Consider working for large businesses that have overseas operations or international contracts. These companies need employees with many different kinds of education, not just business degree holders. Find international corporations in Fortune or Forbes magazines.

Step Four
Investigate cruise industry, travel and hospitality positions for flexible jobs that often provide housing and meals, along with your salary. Search for these jobs on the Jobmonkey website job boards.

Step Five
Check out our government's international job opportunities with the Foreign Service and the U.S. Agency for International Development. The State Department's website has information on these jobs and links to organizations with work abroad opportunities for young and old.

Step Six
Sign up to have newly posted international jobs sent to you by email or a viral feed. Register and save your job searches at newspaper websites that often have international opportunities.

Tips & Warnings
Jobs teaching English abroad are often easy to qualify for, even with little work experience.
Many government jobs and relief agency opportunities require a two- to three-year commitment because of the expense involved in sending an employee to an international location.
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Looking For Opportunities For Summer Jobs

During your summer break from school you might want to consider traveling abroad. A great way to do that is by finding a seasonal job. Working abroad can be very rewarding and affords you the opportunity to live in another culture and visit new places. There are many ways to find these kind of jobs.
Instructions
Difficulty: Moderately Challenging
Steps

Step One
Check out the Internet. There are many websites that specialize in listing seasonal jobs abroad. Looking at these websites will give you an idea of what kinds of jobs are available.

Step Two
Choose the place you want to work and the type of work you want to do. Once you have researched the Internet and know what is out there, narrow your search down to the place and type of job you are most interested in and continue to research.

Step Three
Research books. There are tons of books on the subject of summer jobs abroad, not only websites. The books can offer more detailed information than some of the websites and may be more useful in helping you decide exactly what you want to do. You can buy many of the books online or check out the library to save money.

Step Four
Inquire directly with multinational companies which have offices or affiliates abroad, especially those in the travel and tourism industry (such as hotels). Many of these companies may offer seasonal jobs overseas.

Step Five
Ask an advisor or professor at your college. Many departments, especially foreign language, international relations and business may have exchange programs in place or know of available programs that help set up internships or short-term jobs (sometimes volunteer) abroad. You may even be able to get school credit for it.

Tips & Warnings
Be adventurous! Living and working abroad can be a very edifying and life-changing experience that you will never forget. You will learn a lot about yourself and gain an appreciation for other cultures, but you can not do this if you are afraid to try. When you are in another country, do not be afraid to try new things and do as the locals do. Also, don't go because you want to make a lot of money, most likely you won't; go because you want to learn, experience new things and travel.
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Job Vacancy Abroad; Teaching English As Foreign Language

Teaching English As A Foreign Language Teacher

Job description
Teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) - also referred to as teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) or English language teaching (ELT) - involves teaching English to those whose first language is not English, either in the UK or overseas. TEFL teachers work in commercial language schools, schools and institutions of further and higher education in the UK and overseas. Some may teach in industry, whilst others are self-employed. Teaching takes place with students of all ages and levels in various group sizes depending on where you teach. Classes are usually taught in English, even with beginners.
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Typical work activities
Teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL), like any other teaching job, is about conveying information to students in an informative and interesting manner. Students learn English for a variety of reasons: to improve their conversational English; to improve their standard of English in preparation for school exams; to improve their English to gain entry to an English speaking university; or in order to be able to use English in their job. Consequently, the content of the lessons will vary. Depending on the school, the level of ability of the students may vary too.

The aim of each lesson is to encourage the students to communicate with each other using the structures and vocabulary they have learnt, and to improve the four basic language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Teachers will use a wide range of course books, other materials and a variety of audio-visual aids. There is a lot of emphasis on dialogue and role-playing, but more formal exercises, language games and literature will also be used.
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Typical work activities are likely to include:
- planning, preparing and delivering lessons to a range of classes and age groups;
- marking/providing appropriate feedback on oral and written work;
- devising and writing new materials;
- getting involved in social and cultural activities;
- participating in marketing events for the school;
- carrying out freelance teaching on a one-to-one basis;
- running specialist courses for adults or business people, which may require knowledge of scientific, technical or commercial terms.
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Teaching English As Second Language Teacher
Job description
Teachers of English as a second language work with adults and children whose first language is not English, and who live (or are seeking to live) on a long-term or permanent basis in the UK. They work in a range of locations to help learners develop linguistic and cultural competence to participate fully in British education, work and cultural environments. ESL and E2L are common abbreviations for English as a second language. The abbreviation EAL (English as an additional language) is current in schools, as is ESOL (English for speakers of other languages) within adult education.
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Typical work activities
Teachers or tutors deliver classes to adults at colleges and in community and language centres. In primary and secondary schools, tuition is provided on an individual basis or support is provided in a classroom setting. Some teaching to adult migrants, one-to-one and in small groups, is also delivered in the home.
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Typical activities include:
- planning, preparing and delivering lessons and workshops for groups and individuals;
- designing and producing teaching materials and adapting existing materials;
- carrying out assessments of students' needs;
- planning schemes of work;
- assessing students' progress;
- keeping records;
- attending team meetings;
- attending and contributing to training sessions;
- providing mainstream language support;
- collaborating with class and subject teachers;
- co-operating with bilingual classroom assistants;
- advising colleagues;
- facilitating home/school liaison;
- preparing information for inspection visits and other quality assurance exercises;
- helping to draft and review institutional policies relating to the education of students with English as a second or additional language;
- engaging in continuing professional development (CPD);
- assisting in bidding for project funding.

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Different Kind Of Jobs Available In Other Countries

In theory you need a working visa to get jobs in other countries, in practice most of the jobs we’ve listed can be paid cash in hand. As soon as you arrive start speaking to all of the locals and let it be known in every conversation that you’re looking for work. Get a mobile phone and get your number out there – leave it with prospective employers, give it out to people you meet, make fliers. Jobs won’t come to you by themselves.
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First, of course, you might want to think about what kind of jobs you want to do. Write out your skills on a bit of paper and get creative – check out the sections below for ideas.
To make things easier we’ve put all the job ideas into 6 sections.

Hospitality Jobs
For the backpacker who can put on a smile whilst serving the most tedious and difficult of all entities – the General Public. Truly, the hospitality workers will inherit the earth.

Business Jobs
For the traveler who can do sums in his head, preferably faster than the person he’s selling to. Can you wheel and deal? Can you fleece the naïve? Can you spot a good opportunity and milk it for all it’s worth? Welcome to the world of business.

Labour Jobs
For the grunts among you with the muscles, the stamina or just the love of plain hard work. The hours can be long but the money’s usually good and what is it that makes the world go round? It’s all the grunts pushing it, of course.

Intellectual Jobs
If you feel that the pen is mightier than the spade (or you’re just too weak to lift one anyway) then make the most of your brains on the road and prostitute your intellect to the highest bidder.

Skilled Jobs
Your abilities are the one thing you can take on the road without increasing your baggage allowance. There’s always money in selling your skills abroad, even if only to other travelers. If you don’t have any skills – learn something!

Artistic
Oh it’s such a hard life for the artist traveler. A rucksack full of inspiration and a world full of unappreciative barbarians. Learn how to make the philistines pay for the products of your Muse on the road.
Get out there and get working.
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Legal (Visa) Working and Illegal (Black) Working Abroad
The first question the working traveler should consider is whether it’s legal to work abroad. Then you should forget about it and go anyway. The rules exist to control the masses – economies are fluid, flexible creatures that provide plenty of niches for the traveler in search of a job.

Work Visas
Some countries operate a policy of granting one year work visas to travelers under the age of 26. The idea is to promote cultural exchange and all that jazz. Australia and Japan are examples of this program and you have to apply from your home country. They also expect to see bank statements with a few thousand in the account to prove that you won’t be living on the streets when you arrive. The obvious way aruond this is just to borrow some cash from an understanding parent or friend for a couple of weeks til the bank issues the statement – you could leave them your passport as deposit…

Otherwise to get a work visa you’ll usually have to demostrate that you offer some service or skill that a national of that country doesn’t have. Typically, a company in the destination country will give you a letter of invitation and with that you’ll head to the embassy and hope they approve. Language schools will often arrange all of this for the traveler without having to go through the endless bureaucracy.
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Black Work – Get the Cash in the Hand!
Most countries have a thriving black economy, however. The US, for example, couldn’t possibly function without millions of illegal Mexicans and Latinos working the crops. The hysteria about immigration is mostly political hypocrisy. Jobs which don’t require papers are often those in the hospitality industry or those involving hard labour. Freelance workers can also get away with working illegally and it’s only the professionals that need worry.

You can get in trouble in some countries and get deported. This is no fun at all but it happens pretty rarely. The main thing is to avoid it by always having a good story (say that you were born in the country concerned but grew up elsewhere) and never talking too much about your illegal status.
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Reason To Work Abroad

Why would you want to work abroad? Well, you may be in one of the following categories:
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1. You can’t afford to go travelling.
2. You want to know a culture from the inside, through participation rather than just being a spectator.
3. You want to push your boundaries and discover new sides to yourself through a challenge overseas.
4. Or maybe you just want to make some money and have a good time.
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All of which leaves us asking why wouldn’t you want to go and work abroad?
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The main reason most people give for staying home is that they’ve managed to tie themselves down with a thousand real or imagined responsibilities – the job, the relationship, the dog, the chess club – and they couldn’t imagine leaving any of that behind even for half a year. Other people are simply too afraid to take their chances looking for a job overseas and would prefer to stay with the safe but boring work they have at home. The idea of facing a foreign language and culture in the quest to make a buck it altogether too much.
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Still others would like to find a job abroad but just have no idea of how to start. The world seems a pretty daunting place from afar and few travelers want to head off without a steady budget and a promising interview at the least awaiting them when they arrive. Yet this world is still full of opportunity for the talented, the hard-working, the creative, the brave or simply the lucky. Surely you belong to at least one of those five groups? Anyway, Road Junky is so sick of travelers whinging about not having enough cash to get on the road that we’ve put together a list of job ideas, contacts and opportunities to work abroad.
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And if you still can’t find work then there’s nothing to do but admit you’re a lazy bastard…
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Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Dolphin Mobility Job Vacancies

Dolphin Mobility are an equal opportunities company. If you are interested in any of the vacancies shown please reply with CV to:

Dolphin Mobility Ltd, 37 Chertsey Road, Chobham, Surrey, GU24 8PD. Tel - 01276 856060.


Stairlift Installation Engineer - Surrey Branch

We have an opportunity for an experienced stair lift installations engineer, to cover London and the south east. Experience of stairlifts is essential although training courses will be arranged with the manufacturers to improve product knowledge.



Sales Advisor / Surveyor - Surrey Branch

This is a specification orientated role and you will be in contact with Architects, Local Authorities and end users. Applicants with experience in the industry are of great interest. Experience of stairlifts is preferable although training courses will be arranged with the manufacturers to improve product knowledge.



Administrator - Manchester Branch

Enthusiastic person required for small but busy office in Eccles, Manchester. A good telephone manner and communication skills are essential, as well as being computer literate.