Working abroad : Vacancies abroad

Where to find vacancies

• Country profiles - provides information on sources of vacancies and other useful contacts and resources for over 50 countries. 
• UK Trade & Investment (UKTI)  - helps British firms interested in investing overseas and has a team of international trade advisers located in offices around the UK.
• EURES - European Job Mobility Portal  - has a huge database of jobs from over 30 European countries.
• Expertise in Labour Mobility  - offers useful information on the job market and recruitment practices in various countries.There is the opportunity to register your CV and receive email alerts for new jobs matching your profile as well as lots of information about living and working in particular European countries.
• Eurograduate - The European Graduate Career Guide  - lists vacancies in Europe and worldwide.
• Europages  - an online directory with links to companies in Europe
• 4 International Colleges and Universities (4ICU)  - an international employment directory of world-wide job sites, including 2200 employment sites ranked by popularity in 190 countries.
• Jobs Abroad  - provides a database of job vacancies around the world.
• i-to-i TEFL - has information on finding jobs in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language).
• International Job Online  - produced by the University of London, has vacancies and careers information aimed particularly at international students and graduates seeking work overseas after graduation.
• Professional online journals, magazines and newspapers - usually have a jobs section. Look at these to see which employers are active in your chosen country or area.

 International organisations

• Vacancies with major international organisations are advertised either in the national press, in professional journals or online. These tend to be for people well established in their career or who are specialists in a particular field although there may be schemes or programmes for recent graduates.
• The British Council - advertises jobs in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language), education, as well as a range of long and short-term consultancy posts in finance, health and the environment. They also work on around 1,400 arts events every year in over 100 countries and so have contacts for those in the creative sector wishing to work abroad. There are also a few opportunities to staff British Council offices overseas.
• European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)  - the world’s largest particle physics laboratory (based in Switzerland). It offers a range of career opportunities of varying time periods for undergraduates, graduates and experienced researchers in particle physics, computer science, engineering and mathematics.
• Crown Agents  - an international development company that regularly recruits a wide variety of trained and experienced staff to work on contracts for over 100 overseas governments, public bodies and international aid agencies. They also run a graduate recruitment scheme for those who want to gain experience in the field of international development.
• European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) - organises open competitions to select highly qualified staff for recruitment to all institutions of the European Union (EU).
• European Commission Traineeships Office (Bureau de Stages)  - operates an in-service training and work attachment programme that enables recent university graduates to gain first-hand experience of the workings of EU institutions.
• International Monetary Fund (IMF) - offers a variety of programmes, including their Research Assistants Programme (for new graduates with a ‘superior academic record’) and their Fund Internship programme (for PhD students specialising in macroeconomics). The IMF also recruits onto their Economist Program (EP), where typically participants have a PhD or are studying for one.
• Office for Disability Issues (ODI)  - recruits able postgraduates in economics or closely related fields, including development studies, agricultural economics, environmental economics, transport economics, public policy, financial management, etc., onto its Fellowship Scheme.
• The World Bank  - employs more than 10,000 employees in more than 100 offices worldwide. It operates the Young Professionals Program for the recruitment of people under the age of 32 for two-year postings. Applicants must specialise in a field relevant to the World Bank’s operations and have significant, relevant professional experience or continued academic study at doctoral level.