Ten Essential Tips for Landing a Job Overseas Cont.
Randall S. Hansen, PhD, Provided by Quintessential Careers
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9. Consider Obtaining a Graduate Degree
Consider attending graduate school—either a top-ranked school in your home country or a graduate school in the country/region where you want to work. Whether it's an MBA with a specialty in international business or a graduate degree in international affairs, be sure to do your homework on the best programs to fit your needs and goals.

Read our article, Considering Graduate School? Answer These Five Questions Before You Decide.

10. Contemplate Going/Moving Abroad
In job-hunting, nothing beats meeting with prospective employers face-to-face. If you have the resources, consider traveling or moving to the country or region where you want to work. Once there, meet with potential employers and consider volunteering, interning, or other work alternatives while you continue to search for that ideal position.

Just remember that moving to a foreign country takes a lot more planning than simply moving across town. You'll want to have enough money to live without a paycheck for three to six months, and you'll want to have a number of network contacts and job leads you are ready to follow-up with as soon as you arrive. And even after you move, youÕll want to keep a lifeline back to your home country in the event your job-searching fails and you need to return home.

Questions about some of the terminology used in this article? Get more information (definitions and links) on key college, career, and job-search terms by going to our Job-Seeker's Glossary of Job-Hunting Terms.

About Dr. Randall Hansen
Dr. Randall Hansen is currently Webmaster of Quintessential Careers, as well as publisher of its electronic newsletter, QuintZine. He writes a biweekly career advice column under the name, The Career Doctor. He is also a tenured, associate professor of marketing in the School of Business Administration at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida. He is a published career expert— and has been for the last ten years. He is co-author, with Katharine Hansen, of Dynamic Cover Letters. And he has been an employer and consultant dealing with hiring and firing decisions for the past fifteen years.

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