A Portable Identity (revised edition) Book Description

A Portable Identity, written by two former expatriate women who are also counselors, educates and empowers women to take charge of the changes that result from an overseas posting. The most profound change a woman will experience when she moves overseas in support of her husband's career is within herself,to her own sense of identity. With two,three,or more years of an overseas assignment, a woman is faced with the formidable task of creating a life for herself in an unfamiliar country. Unlike any other book about overseas living, this book explains with clarity,candor and compassion, how a woman's identity is affected at each stage of the move. Through practical exercises and inspiring stories,the authors demonstrate how expatriate life offers a unique opportunity for personal growth. By using a model they developed called "The Wheel", the reader learns to shape her identity in a way that honors her sense of self while also allowing her to become more adaptable to change. The result is a more succesful overseas experience and a "portable" identity that can thrive away from home. Visit website

This book not only covers the practical aspects of relocating; it enters unchartered territory, laying emotional and cultural groundwork to help the expatriate thrive.

The Back Door Guide to Short-Term Job Adventures: Internships, Summer Jobs, Seasonal Work, Volunteer Vacations, and Transitions Abroad (Paperback)
by Michael Landes

Book Description
Summer jobbers, college grads, and anyone trying to reinvigorate or redirect a stalled career needs a short-term job adventure. Whether river guiding in Alaska, restoring a medieval castle in the south of France, or creating a successful organic farm, THE BACK DOOR GUIDE TO SHORT-TERM JOB ADVENTURES offers a comprehensive list of life-enriching experiences. From internships to seasonal work to volunteer jobs and adventures abroad, this best-of-the-best guide from short-term job expert Michael Landes contains more than 1, 000 opportunities to work, play, learn, help, create, experience, and grow worldwide. In this new, handy-sized fourth edition, Landes has extensively updated the listings to provide the most current information and added new listings for internships, seasonal work, volunteer opportunities, and overseas jobs.

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Taking a Gap Year, 4th (Paperback)
by Susan Griffith

From the Back Cover
Inside this guide you will find information on:

Deciding to take a gap year - the rewards, the risks, discussions with schools, universities, timing, fund raising, red tape, reassurance for parents.

Gap year placement organizations - full details of companies which arrange specialist Gap Year programs, expeditions, work experience, voluntary work, etc.

Other opportunities - hundreds of other projects available for young people taking time out including:
Accompany bush rangers in wildlife parks in Botswana
Get involved in tsunami relief in Thailand or Sri Lanka
Help keep children off the streets in Guatemala
Learn to be a snowboard, surfing or diving instructor
Crew on yachts around the Med, the Caribbean or Florida
Ride the outback as a jack- or jilleroo in Australia
Teach English in Europe, India, Japan or China
Build walkways in the Costa Rican rainforest
Study drama, art, cinema, or cookery in Italy
Protect bears and loggerhead turtles in Greece

Country by country guide - covers the complete range of opportunities listed by country, to be found in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Over 100 first hand accounts from people who have taken Gap Years.

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Planning Your Gap Year: Hundreds of Opportunities for Employment, Study, Volunteer Work and Independent Travel (Paperback)
by Nick Vandome

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Lonely Planet The Gap Year Book (Travel Reference) (Paperback)
by Joe Bindloss, Charlotte Hindle, Andrew Dean Nystrom

Book Description
Given the choice between stressful exams or job interviews and the endless white sand of an Australian beach, what would you choose?

• Be the first in your family to go around the world • Swim with dolphins off the coast of New Zealand • Teach children English in India • Build pit latrines in Burkina Faso • Raft the Zambezi, the hardest rapid in the world • Tend baby jaguars in Bolivia • Watch the sun set over Uluru (Ayers Rock) • Learn Spanish in Guatemala • Repatriate wild horses in Mongolia • Work a ski season in the Alps • Study film in New York

The Gap Year Book is your ticket to all this and more.

ALSO INCLUDES • FREE WALL MAP OF THE WORLD • ESSENTIAL PRE-TRIP PLANNING: HEALTH, SAFETY, KIT, COSTS, TICKETS, ETC • ADVICE FROM GAPPERS & INDUSTRY EXPERTS • GAP-YEAR PLANNERS & ROUND-THE-WORLD ROUTES • REGIONAL MAPS & TRIED-AND-TESTED ITINERARIES • HUNDREDS OF GAP-YEAR ORGANIZATIONS & ESSENTIAL RESOURCES

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Gap Years for Grown Ups (Paperback)
by Susan Griffith

From the Back Cover
The benefits for students of a Gap Year have long been accepted, but increasing numbers of older people are now following their example by putting their normal lives on hold and going off to see something of the world; for their benefit Vacation Work have created Gap Years for Grown Ups as a companion book to the highly respected Taking a Gap Year.
There are many reasons why someone may choose to leave their job and take a gap year. Younger people may want a breathing space, a chance to step back, evaluate their career, and perhaps to head off in a new direction, while older people whose children have left home may realize that they now have the freedom to travel or to go off and achieve some personal goal or ambition.
Gap Years for Grown Ups contains all the essential information on the range of opportunities, including specialist gap year programs that accept older participants; jobs and voluntary work around the world; joining expeditions; gaining some new skill or qualification; or simply traveling. The book is vividly illustrated with first-hand advice and tips from people who have taken a gap year and now share their experiences of taking time out.
The book also explains the mechanics of an adult gap year including how to persuade the boss to grant leave and ensure that there is a job to return to; how to finance a break from work, whether to go off alone or to take a partner; and finally how to tackle the return to work.
Inside you will find information on: taking the plunge; nuts and bolts - preparing to take off; doing something worthwhile; directory of specialist programs; working and living abroad; travel and adventure; taking the family; new skills and new projects; spiritual development; back to normal or a change for life. Plus over 100 first-hand accounts from grown-ups who have taken Gap Years.

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Teaching English Abroad: Talk Your Way Around the World! (4th ed) (Paperback)
by Susan Griffin, Susan Griffith

Book Description
This fully revised seventh edition of the definitive and acclaimed guide to short and long-term opportunities around the world for both trained and untrained teachers in the booming field of teaching English as a foreign language. Opportunities exist from Bordeaux to Bogota, Paris to Patras, and the Mediterranean to the South China Seas as the worldwide desire to learn English is fuelled by the gradual adoption of English as the language of the Internet.

The essential information provided by Teaching English Abroad on finding a job covers not only recruitment organizations and useful Web sites but also how to become freelance teachers and where to find jobs on the spot once abroad. But the book also gives invaluable background information including a section on training as EFL teachers that contains a directory of more than 380 TEFL courses that last for periods from a weekend to three years. Plus, it includes advice on the preparations to make before leaving, accepting a job, and on how to cope with any problems that may arise once actually working.

In addition, Teaching English Abroad contains a country guide covering more than 70 countries around the world where EFL is a major industry that gives information on the local prospects in each country for qualified and unqualified teachers, the red tape involved in taking up work, and the conditions of employment. Extensive directories give the teacher requirements of more than 700 language schools in Europe, the Far East, Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, and over 1,150 language school addresses to contact for jobs are also listed.

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How to Teach English (Paperback)
by Jeremy Harmer

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Teach Business English (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers)
by Sylvie Donna, Penny Ur (Series Editor)

Book Description
This book provides a practical introduction to Business English for new and experienced teachers, and deals with a range of issues from needs analysis and course planning to testing and evaluation.

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Training Course for Tefl (Paperback)
by Peter Hubbard

This is an excellent, comprehensive coverage of the methods of TESL/TEFL teaching! Perfect for anyone teaching TEFL but unable to attend a full training course. Also useful for teachers in the field.

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Teaching English Overseas: A Job Guide for Americans & Canadians (Paperback)
by Jeff Mohamed

Book Description
The new, revised edition of this comprehensive guide for people who want to find jobs teaching English abroad. It includes detailed practical advice on: teaching without training; choosing a TEFL training program; the current overseas job market; how to conduct a successful job search; legal, medical and other practical considerations; dealing with culture shock. It also contains contact details of 450 schools and other organizations which between them hire more than 10,000 teachers every year.

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Teach Yourself Teaching English as a Foreign/Second Language (Paperback)
by David Riddell, David Riddell

Book Description
Whether as a means of support while living abroad or for introducing immigrants to the language, teaching English as a foreign or second language is growing in popularity. Teach Yourself Teaching English as a Foreign/Second Language is a useful text for you, whether you are an inexperienced or a long-time teacher, because of its refreshing and supportive advice and updated teaching techniques.

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Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching (Teaching Techniques in English as a Second Language)
by Diane Larson-Freeman

Live & Work Abroad : A Guide for Modern Nomads (Paperback)
by Huw Francis, Michelyne Callan

Book Description
An essential guide for anyone thinking of moving abroad for several years, due to business or study, or even just retiring to another country. Veteran travelers Francis and Callan cover in professional detail all the issues that anyone needs to make any move successful.

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International Job Finder: Where the Jobs Are Worldwide (International Job Finder) (Paperback)
by Daniel Lauber, Kraig Rice

Students, recent graduates, and others attracted by work opportunities in foreign countries will benefit from this new source, whose purpose is "to gather together in one place the broadest collection of effective online and offline resources for finding international jobs." Claiming that using the Internet is more effective for obtaining international jobs than domestic ones, Lauber, the author of several guides on finding jobs in the public and private sectors, discusses in detail the advantages of utilizing the Internet while job hunting. These advantages include searching databases of jobs that fit one's employment and location criteria, placing one's name in r‚sum‚ banks, signing on for e-mail notification, speeding the transmission of resumes, using news groups for networking opportunities, and obtaining current country information. Lauber also warns readers to beware of potential pitfalls and gives advice on how to recognize and avoid scams. Some 1200 online and print resources are organized into worldwide gateways and into eight geographical regions further subdivided alphabetically by country. Each resource is covered by a paragraph describing its services, its strengths, any charges to users, and recommendations on how to use it most effectively. Both a "Resource Index" and a "Topic Index" are useful in narrowing one's search to occupations and countries of most interest. Readers need only beware that most graphics illustrating web-site pages are separated from their related text by several to hundreds of pages and that a few advertisements for recommended print resources appear. This well-balanced reference is strongly recommended for academic and public library career collections. Stanley P. Hodge, Ball State Univ. Lib., Muncie, IN

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Realities of Foreign Service Life (Paperback)
by Patricia Linderman, Melissa Brayer-Hess

Book Description
Mention a diplomatic career and most people imagine high-level meetings, formal dress and cocktail parties. Few stop to think that behind the occasional glitter of official functions are thousands of families facing all the routines and crises of life—births, deaths, childrearing, divorce—far from home, relatives, and friends, in an unfamiliar and sometimes unfriendly country and culture. This book provides reflections and perspectives on the realities of Foreign Service life as experienced by members of the Foreign Service community around the world. The writers share their unvarnished views on a wide variety of topics they care about: maintaining long-distance relationships, raising teens abroad, dealing with depression, coping with evacuations, readjusting to life in the United States, and many others. These are stories from the diplomatic trenches —true experiences from those who have lived the lifestyle and want to share their hard-learned lessons with others.

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Best Resumes and CVS for International Jobs: Your Passport to the Global Job Market (Paperback)
by Ronald L. Krannich, Wendy S. Enelow

Book Description
A definitive guide to international resumes and CVs. Includes over 100 examples of professionally produced international resumes and CVs for a variety of occupations and experience levels.

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The Global Citizen: A Guide to Creating an International Life and Career (Paperback)
by Elizabeth Kruempelmann

Book Description
If your dreams of career success include jobs in Prague or Munich, if you want to learn Mandarin while living in China, or if your travel plans always require a passport, then THE GLOBAL CITIZEN is for you. Written by Monster.com's former international career mentor, Elizabeth Kruempelmann, THE GLOBAL CITIZEN is an international life and career planner that walks you through the ins and outs of working, studying, volunteering, or living in a foreign country. Thought-provoking assessments will get you started on your global path, the interactive planner will keep you on track, and extensive resources will widen your possibilities. With tips for researching and funding your adventure, secrets to adjusting to life abroad, and hints for making the most of your experiences when (or if!) you return, THE GLOBAL CITIZEN presents a new approach to life planning no citizen of the world should be without.

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International Jobs
by Nina Segal, Eric Kocher

Book Description
The newest edition of a classic: the definitive guide to researching and launching an international career.

From teaching English to analyzing intelligence for the federal government, the international field offers a broad spectrum of exciting job opportunities. For over twenty years, International Jobs has been the authoritative guide for researching and launching an international career. In this newly revised sixth edition, veteran career counselor Nina Segal updates Eric Kocher's classic reference, providing all the tools necessary for understanding the complex international job market and finding the right employment options. With the tried and true components of previous editions-practical résumé and interviewing advice, market analysis, and insightful "day-in-the-life" stories-as well as substantially increased Web resources, International Jobs is the essential comprehensive reference for students and established professionals alike who want a career in the global marketplace.

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International Jobs Directory: A Guide to over 1001 Employers (Paperback)
by Ronald L. Krannich, Caryl Rae Krannich

Book Description
The explosive growth of international jobs means thousands of new opportunities for enterprising job seekers.

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Time Off From Work : Using Sabbaticals To Enhance Your Life While Keeping Your Career On Track (Paperback)
by Lisa Rogak

Book Description
A sabbatical may be just the change you need. More and more men and women are successfully taking an extended break from their jobs—a sabbatical. Once the exclusive preserve of academics, sabbaticals are revitalizing today’s business world. Recognizing that the decision to take a sabbatical is a major step, Lisa Rogak mixes a wealth of practical how-to facts and advice with the real-life stories of over forty professionals detailing every aspect of the process. Whether you want the time off to travel, explore other careers, discover new interests, go back to school, stay with your family, do volunteer work, or simply slow down and recharge your batteries, you’ll find information on:

• Approaching your boss and negotiating the leave you want
• Turning your sabbatical into a career asset
• Determining your eligibility for the Family Medical Leave Act
• Financing a sabbatical creatively
• Preparing and planning to get the most out of your time off
• Troubleshooting a sabbatical that’s not working out
• Adjusting to the workplace once your sabbatical is over

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Book Description
The Expatriate Handbook gives the reader an overview of all the issues facing business people when they're asked to take on overseas assignments. While every assignment varies with country and position, there are common issues every American should examine before accepting becoming an expatriate. The author draws on his years of experience working with European expatriates to provide useful guidelines to determine if the assignment is right for the reader.

From the Publisher
The globalization of business has meant more people are expected to go overseas in order to advance within their companies. A failed assignment can cost the company money but it can also cost the employee his/her career. This book complements the training West Virginia University provides for executives as well as the preparation we try to provide for our students. Adams has experience both as an expatriate and as an advisor to expatriates.