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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.
Customer Reviews:
This works for Americans too!.......2007-01-16
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.
Good....if you're Canadian.......2006-12-09
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.
Full of references for young people.......2006-08-23
Good book, a lot of references, but mainly for young people just out from college.
Career booster.......2006-03-23
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
awesome resource.......2004-12-11
Bought it for a friend and now I want one for myself! The book can actually be viewed online for a subscriber fee too. http://www.workingoverseas.com
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Chock full of useful info.......2003-01-02
Transitions Abroad magazine has seemingly always been the go-to resource for students, volunteers, and working travelers itching to get up and go. This book is a great resource for doing so in an informed and successful manner. No organization does a better job at compiling the best resources and they've tapped several experts from their stable of writers to give the low-down on specific areas.
While English teachers may require a more focused guide, the book does provide a good overview and plenty of relevant web sites to explore for more information in that area. For anyone wishing to travel and make a living at the same time, the purchase of this book is money very well spent. After all, if you land a job after using the guide, it'll pay for itself on day one.
Tim Leffel
author, The World's Cheapest Destinations
Excellent resource item.......2002-09-30
(Planeta.com Journal) - This book assists those beginning an international career. This second edition combines contacts a and insights that pierce the mystery of finding work abroad. Chapters cover international careers, short-term jobs, internships, volunteering and teaching. This is an excellent resource and I only wish I had found it earlier!
Excellent resource item.......2002-09-30
(Planeta.com Journal) - This book assists those beginning an international career. This second edition combines contacts a and insights that pierce the mystery of finding work abroad. Chapters cover international careers, short-term jobs, internships, volunteering and teaching. This is an excellent resource and I only wish I had found it earlier!
Found a job in a week........2002-09-22
Thanks to this book and despite me having no teaching experience or certification, I found a job within a week. This book is concise and contains many links to websites I could not find on my own. The job I received is in Mexico and they are paying for my plane tickets and rent when I get there, along with a nice salary. I am very pleased. If you want a job then I would suggest you look here first.
An ideal and instructive reference.......2001-03-11
Work Abroad is the complete, comprehensive, practical, and "user friendly" how-to guide for finding jobs overseas. Whether it's for an interesting volunteer position, a paid employment full or part-time, this indispensable guide is an ideal and instructive reference. There are country-by-country listings of key employers and organizations, lists of the best books and websites, a wealth of helpful first-hand reports from people on their experiences when working abroad. Work Abroad is a very highly recommended addition to any personal, school, job center, or community library jobs/careers resources and reference collection.
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The most comprehensive career book series available, Opportunities in . . . explores a vast range of professions.
Each book offers:
- The latest information on a field of interest
- Training and education requirements for each career
- Salary statistics for different positions within each field
- Up-to-date professional and Internet resources
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The most comprehensive career book series available, Opportunities in . . . explores a vast range of professions.
Each book offers:
- The latest information on a field of interest
- Training and education requirements for each career
- Salary statistics for different positions within each field
- Up-to-date professional and Internet resources
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Directory of Overseas Summer Jobs 1995 (Vacation Work's)
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Working for the U.S Government Overseas.......2002-04-09
The U.S. Goverment is the largest employer of American citizens overseas.They work in various occupations. Finding the right job begins with this book. This is guide to a variety of agencies which actually shows job vacancy listings. It tells how to apply for these jobs and who to contact. This book is for you whether you are a recent graduate or a mid-level job hunter.
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How to Get a Job Overseas
Curtis W. Casewit
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Overseas Jobs: The Ten Best Countries
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The Overseas List: Opportunities for Living and Working in Developing Countries
David M. Beckmann
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Overseas Summer Jobs 1996 (UK Issn 0070-6051)
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Breakdown: The Facts About Teacher Stress
John Cosgrove
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The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980
Timothy J. Minchin
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Histories of the civil rights movement have generally overlooked the battle to integrate the South's major industries. The paper industry, which has played an important role in the southern economy since the 1930s, has been particularly neglected. Using previously untapped legal records and oral history interviews, Timothy Minchin provides the first in-depth account of the struggle to integrate southern paper mills.
Minchin describes how jobs in the southern paper industry were strictly segregated prior to the 1960s, with black workers confined to low-paying, menial positions. All work literally had a color: every job was racially designated and workers were represented by segregated local unions. Though black workers tried to protest workplace inequities through their unions, their efforts were largely ineffective until passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act opened the way for scores of antidiscrimination lawsuits. Even then, however, resistance from executives and white workers ensured that the fight to integrate the paper industry was a long and difficult one.
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Title: The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980.(Book Review)
Author: Robert Korstad
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Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 2003
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
Volume: 69
Issue: 1
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This digital document is an article from Labour/Le Travail, published by Canadian Committee on Labour History on March 22, 2004. The length of the article is 1595 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Timothy J. Minchin, The Color of Work: the Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980.(Book Review)
Author: Bruce Nelson
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Date: March 22, 2004
Publisher: Canadian Committee on Labour History
Issue: 53
Page: 301(3)
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Journalist Bill Geist, who is familiar to viewers of the CBS Evening News, used to be a Little League coach in New Jersey. And he somehow lived to tell about it. When first published in 1992, Little League Confidential assumed cult status as a baseball classic, though some just considered it one very funny book. Geist reveals the ups and downs (well, mostly downs) of coaching a team sponsored by a local beauty salon. His portraits of players and parents and his thoughts on competition in small town New Jersey are heartfelt and hilarious.
Customer Reviews:
Little Leauge Confidential: One Coach's Compleletly Unauthorized Tale of Survival.......2006-02-27
I am sure the book is great-the book was purchased for a gift.
I am Mean Gene Huffman.......2006-01-31
At least, I'm half of Mean Gene Huffman. Gene Ret and I were conglomerated into one large, gawky intimidating Little Leaguer. Who was the more large, gawky, and intimidating is one of the great debates of our time.
Great story. I never knew my drunken high school antics were witnessed by Bill Geist until I got to the end of the book. Geist saw me crash through his bushes and play some sloppy basketball with his son and friends for a few minutes while reminiscing about the old Little League days. And, he parlayed my mishap into a convenient parable on lost youth to wrap up his story.
Well, he's just lucky they were playing basketball that night and I wasn't trying to unload my ferocious fastball or swing a bat. Stay young, eat flax, and long live the glory days of Little League.
Americana at its finest! (and all that that entails)..........2005-05-19
Anybody who has ever coached or played little league baseball is guaranteed to get a good laugh from this book. I love the kind of books that go under cover and tell what things are "really" like out there (especially with a twist) and this one is exceptionally well done. Little League Confidential is written with a very dry sense of humor that brings the story of a little league baseball coach to life. Particularly brilliant are the author's accounts of dealing with parents who complain about their child's playing time and position in the field as well as the behind-the-scenes draft meetings! Why does that kid with average skills and interest always get picked first anyway?! Any idea? hmmm...
All in all - an excellent and timeless summer read!
So True!.......2003-06-05
If you are involved with Little League, you will see many true moments in this book. Your perpspecitve may be any of player, parent, coach, umpire, spectator. It is quite humorous and will have you both laughing and shaking your head.
Especially good for new coaches. You may have heard that Little League is "very political". It is. The author highlights many ways that it is and also gives very good pointers on how you can get "advantages" in this "non-competitive" environment.
Highly recommended.
Geist hits a home run!.......2003-06-05
What a fantastic, funny book. Anyone who has ever been involved with Little League or any organized kids sports league has to read this book. As I was reading Little League Confidential, I kept thinking that Geist, a reporter for CBS, MUST have had a video camera at one of my son's games. So much of what he writes is so hilariously on-the-mark , perceptive and insightful. It was just so much fun to read and very well-written.
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