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Expatriate Job search advice

As part of our commitment to supporting the expatriate community, we are dedicated to supporting you in your search for a new career.  We are regularly contacted with questions regarding the best places to post your CVs and resumes? Who to contact for jobs overseas?  What kind of jobs are available? and so forth.

It is our opinion that some of the best advice and insights are available for the numerous expat blogs and websites available (in fact, that's why we established The Expat Directory).  There are a number of expatriate community chat forums, blogs and websites which provide useful first hand experience of individual successes and failures.  The best of these sites can be found in our expat community section by specific country.  We have made the deliberate decision not to emulate these sites or recycle their knowledge but instead provide a directory to the best place for experience (those who have actually made the leap and are now successfully living the expat life).

• Look at your Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) and decide what is the best course of action for you personally (This is a good resource for personal SWOT analysis).
• Review your CV. Further information and methods here for writing/re-writing your CV
• Research the countries that you are interested in working in. 
  • Do they currently have skill shortfalls?  Do they have a Highly Skilled Migrant Programme?
  • Do you have the relevant skills?
  • Is the country stable?  Some jobs will be very attractive but will come at the cost of reduced safety, always give this due thought.
  • What type of contracts/work is available?
  • How difficult will it be for me to get a Visa?
  • and so on.
• Read through some expat blogs and websites (search available at the top of this page or by country under the expat community page).  These sites are invaluable and not only provide information on the individuals experiences but also an honest opinion of the lifestyles and pros/cons of the countries where they live in.  The community site is constantly updated so if you find a site which you think is worthy of entry into our directory, please submit it here - Thank you.

Once you have made your plan, done your research and decided on your course of action, we suggest you take a few days break and allow your thoughts to settle, this is after all a big decision and should not be rushed.  When you are ready, take a fresh look at your CV, should you change anything?  Is there a specific element that could strengthen or weaken your potential for employment?  If you are unsure, ask a friend or colleague to review your CV/portfolio.  Usually a fresh set of eyes will provide clearer insight and interpretation.  Dont take any comments negatively, listen to what they have to say and use/disregard the information as you feel necessary.  If you prefer, you can always get a professional agency to prepare your CV for you, we have recommended a few that we trust below (previously used by colleagues/site users and recommended).

Once your CV is complete and you have decided on a course of action, get your CV out there!  But how?  Well, we have done a little research for you.  The following companies below provide recruitment services and dedicated job search engines.  We recommend you add you CV to as many as possible to get your presence felt by potential employers.  Some sites will charge for some services, whether you choose to take their services is up to you.  Look at the benefits first, if the company will be proactively chasing employment on your behalf, it may be worth the investment rather than waiting passively for an employer to find you.  As with all sites, we cannot guarantee any specific products or success of third party sites so please be sure that you are happy with their products before making any commitments.  Notwithstanding this, most of the sites below offer free services but we prefer our users to be well informed.  Workcircle is a particularly useful job search site as it collates vacancies from a myriad of employers and other recruitment sites so it saves you the leg work.  A useful feature is the ability to search a specific job category and location, a very useful tool for expats.

Skillclear offer work permit, visa and immigration advice and representation for a wide range of countries. Registered with the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner in the UK, SkillClear are here to help and offer a 100% free initial assessment of your case. Click here to visit our site.	Education and Learning	Recruitment Agencies	Job Search Sites

We will continue to add more companies as we find more useful expat job sites that we feel are worthwhile adding to this list.  If you have a company that you have found useful, please recommend it here.  We will review the site and add it to the above lists if deemed suitable.

Now that you are out there, we wish you the best of success.  We intend to revisit this advice regularly and, with your feedback, tailor the information to allow greater success.  We wish you the best of luck in your future career and only ask that you remember us and provide any feedback that you feel is necessary to help the next Expat in their search for employment abroad.