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Typical Employment Trends

  • Entry Level Positions - Likely to be restricted to locations in the United States. Allows employees time to develop work experience and organizational exposure.
  • Mid-Level Positions: Likely to involve travel to other countries. Experience and knowledge gained complement language and cultural communication skills.
  • Most-Experienced Positions: May be assigned overseas.

What is an International Job?

  • Involves working for an international company that views the world as its market.
  • Involves contact with individuals from other countries, whether in person or through telecommunications.
  • May require living and working abroad for determined periods of time, or to work in the United States and travel abroad on occasion.
  • Usually demands a targeted skill or knowledge base (e.g., finance, computers, statistics, sales, etc.) built upon a base of multicultural interest and proficiency.
  • If performed outside the country, is extremely demanding of one's time, often functioning on a 24-hour schedule, balancing work, travel, and business contacts with personal time.

Requirements for International Jobs

  • Adaptability, flexibility
  • Adventurousness
  • Creativity
  • Curiosity
  • Initiative
  • Language skills
  • Multicultural awareness
  • Multicultural sensitivity
  • Multicultural tolerance
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Tenacity
  • Willingness to take risks

Where can you get more information?

Books available in Career Services

  • Guide to Careers in World Affairs. By the Editors of the Foreign Policy Association
  • Rochester Business Journal. International Business Supplement
  • Teaching English Abroad. By Susan Griffith
  • The ISS Directory of Overseas Schools.
  • "Transition Abroad Magazine"

Internet Sites of Interest