How easy is it for westerners to land jobs in other locations?
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A couple of months back, our good man Nish posted a message asking "How easy is it for westerners to land jobs in other locations?" [^], this got me thinking... How easy/hard would it be for us westerners to find work in other countries? I've been talking this through with my girlfriend, and we've said that once we get out of student debt, as we only graduated a year ago and Britain's completely lost the idea of free higher education for all (sigh) , which should be in around 4 years we will look seriously into moving to another country. This, in theory, will give us time to learn other another language, and decide where we want to be. So has anyone got any thought's of the problems we may face, or any experience of doing similar? And what's winter in South America like? BTW, the sort of thing we would be looking at:* programming job (for me)
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environmental job (for the girly)
Dylan Kenneally London, UK
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A couple of months back, our good man Nish posted a message asking "How easy is it for westerners to land jobs in other locations?" [^], this got me thinking... How easy/hard would it be for us westerners to find work in other countries? I've been talking this through with my girlfriend, and we've said that once we get out of student debt, as we only graduated a year ago and Britain's completely lost the idea of free higher education for all (sigh) , which should be in around 4 years we will look seriously into moving to another country. This, in theory, will give us time to learn other another language, and decide where we want to be. So has anyone got any thought's of the problems we may face, or any experience of doing similar? And what's winter in South America like? BTW, the sort of thing we would be looking at:* programming job (for me)
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environmental job (for the girly)
Dylan Kenneally London, UK
Dylan, the only way to really compare places is to go there. I spent a few months in Nuremberg last year and its one place I would go to live. After you get past the language barrier and the surface formality people were great. My one regret is that it was too long to be away from friends and family and too short to make a life there. Elaine (fluffy tigress emoticon) Would you like to meet my teddy bear ?
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Dylan, the only way to really compare places is to go there. I spent a few months in Nuremberg last year and its one place I would go to live. After you get past the language barrier and the surface formality people were great. My one regret is that it was too long to be away from friends and family and too short to make a life there. Elaine (fluffy tigress emoticon) Would you like to meet my teddy bear ?
I've faced this problem a few months ago when I decided to move to Asia. I finally landed in China without knowing one word of Chinese... In general, without the job, no visa, without the visa, no job X| . Thanks to the commonwealth, english people have an edge to get a temporary working visa in many countries. Students can easily go abroad for diploma or trainership. This is certainly the easiest way to put one foot in your future country! It will make a potential employer feel confident to hire you once graduated. Another common way to go abroad is to work a couple of years in an international company with offices both local and in the target country. Just hope that the abroad office won't be closed before you go... Of course, any door even the most unlikely can be opened if you know the right person at the right place ;). In any case, knowing the local language is a MUST for integration! Hope it helps, Eric