Career & Employability's Information Room stocks a number of useful publications that are both general and country-specific. The most readily obtained work abroad is TEFL. Work in less developed countries, with aid agencies, NGOs, etc.... is covered within our development pages.
Vacation work is the most straightforward way of gaining overseas experience.
Useful Links
- Prospects work and study abroad info
- Virtual world tourist map
- EU Web Site
- The CIA world factbook
- Foreign Office travel advice notes
- International Newspapers links to the world's major newspapers.
- European Commission catalogue of free publications available in the UK with on-line order form.
- Dr Job's directory of European Employers
- Teachanywherehas a wide range of opportunities for teaching abroad.
- Going Global careers information and jobs for 24 countries worldwide.
- Emigration Expert
Vacancies
Countries / Regions
Africa
- Employment in Africa
- Career Classifieds leave your CV or search for jobs in South Africa
Asia
- Japanese Embassy Site
- Survival Japan
- Jobs in Japan
- Rikunabi for Overseas Students provides employment and recruitment fair information for fluent Japanese speakers studying outside Japan.
- Careers in Asia
- China Recruitment internship opportunities in China
Australasia
- Monster Australia
- Employment Opportunities Australia
- Careers Online
- News Classified
- Australia Immigration information
- Guide to Allied Health in Australia website aimed particularly at Allied Health professionals wanting to work in Australia.
- New Zealand immigration information
- Part of KiwiCareers, useful site listing recruitment consultants and employment agency sites in New Zealand with links to their web pages.
- Intern Options internships and work placements in Australia and New Zealand.
Europe
- Gradireland for graduate jobs and careers advice in Ireland
- Jobs Europe gives good cover of France, Germany, Italy and Sweden
- Hobsons Europe Site
- Job Centre Plus information about working in the European Economic Area and job vacancies in the EEA.
- World of Skills placement programme in Europe.
- iAgora entry level jobs and internships in 26 European countries.
- Move Up Belgium French and Flemish only
- Jobs in Brussels
- Europa site with links to many aspects of the EU, including careers
- Europass European initiative to make skills and qualifications more easily understood around Europe
- Dutch Internship an organization that helps students find internship placements in the Netherlands.
- French sites:
- Le Monde Informatique and jobuniverse
- Cadres Online with info on compiling your CV in French
- Stepstone France
- French Yellow Pages
- Optioncarriere is an employment search engine for France.
- Forum Germany job hunting advice, companies, graduate opportunities
- Hungary and the Czech Republic
- Spanish Yellow Pages
- Scandinavia:
- Lots of links throughout Scandinavia from the Lund University site
- Norwegian job ads and employers' websites (well we think so - hard to tell with no knowledge of Norwegian!)
- Stepstone Norway includes vacancies and advice (in Norwegian)
- Norwegian Directorate of Labour information in English on living and working in Norway plus a vacancy database.
- Denmark The Danish 'Jobcentre' website.
- Swed net
North America
Canada
- Canadian Jobs
- CanadaJob.Com
- PlusJobs Canada
- iJive's Canada Jobs Site
- Toronto Jobs
- Hotjobs
- Government Jobs Canada guide to Canadian federal, provincial and municipal government jobs
USA
- Catapult and CareerPath
- The Riley Guide really useful USA site with lots of international links (and it's quite fast)
- GradView USA
- Work Experience USA
- CIEE (JET, Work in China, US Internships)
- Mountbatten Internship Programme a scheme which provides work in New York in the year following graduation.
- information about visas and finding short term employment
- ECA Exchange Visitor Program website foreign nationals may visit the United States temporarily to teach, lecture, study, observe, conduct research, consult, train, or demonstrate special skills. Designated sponsoring organizations facilitate the entry of foreign nationals into the United States to complete the objectives of any one of 13 program categories.
