| Short-Term Work Abroad
Susan Griffith, Short-Term Work Abroad Editor for Transitions Abroad, offers a selection of key employers for short-term and summer jobs overseas. Susan also provides an overview with essential resources for those who are seeking work teaching English in Asia, Latin America, Western Europe, and Central and Eastern Europe. Work Abroad as an Au Pair or a Nanny offers extensive details and links for these in-demand jobs in Europe. | | Working and Living Abroad
Author of the bible on work abroad, The BIG Guide to Living and Working Overseas, Jean-Marc Hachey shares his insights into international employment trends and offers inspirational advice to short- and long-term job seekers. In Build an International Employment Profile, he walks through key steps — including study abroad, volunteer work, internships, or cultural immersion travel — which often lead to an international career. Our International Careers advisor shows you how to apply for work abroad effectively in International Resumes. | | Living Abroad: Choosing a Country That's Best For You
Experienced long-term traveler, volunteer, expatriate, and Living Abroad editor Volker Poelzl — whose work has involved researching comprehensive global and country-by-country expatriate resource guides for Transitions Abroad — describes the lure of life overseas for the estimated 6.6 million Americans who have already decided to take the plunge. In addition, Volker provides a list of the top twelve countries for those contemplating a new life in another country — whether to work abroad, retire, experience an extended period of cultural immersion, or simply to escape from the "rat race" at home. |
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| Living Abroad in Costa Rica
Erin Van Rheenen paints a picture of life as an expatriate immersed in the lush tropical lands of Costa Rica and the renowned hospitality of its people. In extended excerpts from her guidebook, which is part of the Living Abroad series by Avalon Travel Publishing, she offers step-by-step details and advice on local history, culture, geography, residency requirements, working visas, moving considerations, safety, retirement, and much more. |
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Internship Work Abroad
William Nolting, work abroad and study abroad editor for Transitions Abroad, identifies and categorizes student internship jobs overseas. William's compilation of Recommended Work Abroad Resources provides expert guidance for finding student work overseas. |
Make Your Fantasy Job a Reality: How to Find and Create Full-Time Work Abroad
Tim Leffel profiles those who have successfully made their fantasy jobs a reality by finding or creating work overseas. |
To Work Abroad Successfully, Put Down Roots
Tim Leffel draws from his experience working abroad and interviews others to illustrate how taking the plunge and living as a local is often the best path to interesting and fulfilling work overseas. |
Freelance Jobs Can Be Your Ticket to Living Overseas
Adam Bray describes the pros and cons of freelance work abroad and provides practical tips which have made for a positive and liberating experience. |
Living and Working Overseas While Freelancing on the Web 
Nora Dunn provides practical advice, descriptions based upon experience, and resources to inspire you to enjoy the freedom possible when you live and work abroad as a freelancer on the Web. |
Caretaking Jobs Abroad: Some Creative Ways to Travel the World Long-Term
Nora Dunn on the many jobs abroad available as a caretaker. Such short-term work allows for long-term travel. |
Where the ESL Jobs Are Overseas: Online But Off the Beaten Path
Duncan MacLeod, host of our favorite web site dedicated to finding work teaching English abroad, www.tesall.com, guides you to the many alternative websites where you can search for such jobs independently. In A Primer for North Americans Wishing to Teach English Abroad, Duncan provides a concise overview of jobs which combine travel, living and work abroad. |
Summer and Seasonal Work in Australia
Lisa Ponefract finds that the best jobs in Australia are off-the-beaten-path and offers her inside tips and prime resources for a variety of options for summer and seasonal work. |
Canada Wants You to Word Abroad: How to Get a Visa
Ramona Grenier on the requirements and steps to acquire your work permit in Canada. |
Work Abroad as a Travel Writer
Tim Leffel provides practical tips to help you combine travel and living overseas with your passion and talent for writing |
Work Abroad in Europe: Opportunities for Non-Europeans Are Expanding
Joe Freeman describes new options for those who wish to work in Europe while offering a variety of practical examples. |
Work Abroad as a Freelance Foreign Correspondent
Jason Motlagh describes the tough but fascinating world of the freelancing journalist abroad. He provides practical tips on how and where to land your first job while providing a checklist for journalists first arriving for work overseas. |
Work Abroad as a Nurse
Caroline A. Polt, RN, describes her experience working as a nurse in Saudi Arabia and documents the many jobs available overseas. |
Teaching English Abroad
Randall Davis offers his expertise and selected resources to prepare and to find short-term work abroad, or to develop a career as an ESL teacher overseas. |
Working and Networking in Italy
Emma Bird provides inside tips for finding work in Italy, where networking for jobs can be as important as your credentials, according to a woman who has found work abroad as a journalist, an English teacher, and a freelancer. She follows up with practical and inspirational advice in Work in Italy Creatively. Emma also suggests Taking a Look-See Trip to Search for Work in Italy and describes the step-by-step process to apply for a Freelance Work Visa. |
"Do What You Love," Say Experts in Work Abroad
Transitions Abroad interviews Ron and Caryl Krannich, authors of many classic books on work abroad and at home. |
Teaching English in Thailand: The 10 Day Job Search
With so many contemplating ways to travel, live and work abroad this summer, A.J. Hoge tells you how to find jobs teaching English in Thailand within 10 days of stepping off the plane. |
Finding Work Teaching English in Italy
Kevin Revolinksi offers tips and resources for English teaching jobs in Italy. |
Teaching English in Japan: The Internet Job Search
A.J. Hoge offers tips for using the Web in order to land work teaching English in Japan. |
Teaching English in Mexico and Living as a Mex-Pat
Jonathan Clark provides inside tips on finding work teaching English in Mexico, and offers a variety of perspectives from expatriates. |
Making it as a Freelance English Teacher in Spain
Steven Harold Starry provides an expert's tips on what is required to find freelance work teaching English in Spain. |
How to Work Abroad After College
Katie Kreuger on the transition from college study to work abroad. |
The Expat’s Survival Guide: Searching for International Jobs
Leslie Strazzullo offers practical advice and strategies on how to plan your search and obtain your goals for work abroad. |
Gen X Goes to Work Abroad
Jennifer Hamm describes a hot trend for young professionals — career-related jobs abroad on corporate assignments. She provides advice on the qualifications and attitude necessary to secure such forms of work abroad. |
What it Takes to Live and Work Abroad
Celeste Heiter summarizes the essential attributes for a successful and rewarding experience living and working abroad. |
Teaching as an International Career
Tamara Studniski and Peter Burnside provide inside tips for those who seek a career teaching subject matter other than English, based upon their varied work abroad experiences. |
Becoming an International Aid Worker
Matthew Bolton offers practical tips and links for getting started in a career as an international aid worker—advice based upon his own experience, which started with volunteer work abroad. |
Volunteer Work Abroad and Volunteer Vacations |
The Changing Face of International Volunteering
Volker Poelzl provides both an overview of trends in international volunteering and a selection of the best resources for those considering volunteer vacations or work abroad. |
Volunteering for Work Abroad: What It Takes to Be a Highly Effective Volunteer
Joseph Collins and Luke Wendt, co-authors with Zahara Heckscher of How to Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas, summarize the most important traits for volunteer work abroad. In Choosing a Volunteer Work Abroad Placement Organization, the authors describe practical steps to narrow down overseas program options. |
Volunteer Vacations: Seniors Have a Different Agenda
Senior Travel Editor Alison Gardner describes the characteristics of volunteer vacations selected by seniors, while discussing the many volunteer programs available for this meaningful combination of cultural immersion travel and service work abroad. |
Volunteer Vacations Abroad Gain in Popularity
Margaret Jaworski describes the trend towards voluntourism while offering profiles, tips, and resources to help choose an organization abroad. |
Making the Most of a Volunteer Vacation
Authors Doug Cutchins and Anne Geissinger provide essential tips on how to turn your volunteer work abroad into a meaningful and memorable cultural immersion experience. |
Volunteer Work in Brazil
Volker Poelzl provides an overview of the volunteer work available in Brazil in the context of current social and cultural issues. |
Volunteer Teaching English in Africa
B. Susan Bauer on how to go about finding volunteer work teaching English in Africa. |
Learning a Language While Volunteering Abroad
Susan Griffith offers advice and resources for volunteer work abroad in which cultural immersion accelerates the language learning process, and provides a more enriching travel experience |
Study Abroad, Student Work Abroad and Educational Travel Overseas |
The Benefits of Study Abroad
A new study by Professors Mary Dwyer and Courtney Peters of IES Abroad details the personal, academic, cultural and career development benefits of overseas education - which is often the best preparation as a student for work abroad. |
Job Strategies While Abroad: How to Get the Best “Career Punch” From Your Study Abroad Experience
Jean-Marc Hachey on ways to transform your study abroad experience into a preparation for long-term work abroad or even a career overseas. |
Why Study Abroad?
Sheila J. Curran highlights the many advantages of study abroad for those who wish to gain a career advantage. |
Finding Internships in Italy
Emma Bird provides practical tips and resources for those seeking internship work in Italy. |
An Internship in London: Work Abroad and Study a Profession
Katy Nelson found time to explore England while working for a publishing company though an internship program. |
The Rise of Study Abroad in Asia
Stacey Hartmann on the growing opportunities and trends for U.S. students seeking cultural contrasts along with study abroad tips for Asia by Michael Swift. |
Study Abroad in China at Chinese Universities
Study abroad in China increased by 90% in 2005. Sarah Bivins offers a first-hand report of a year of travel and study. |
Graduate Study Abroad
Jessica P. Hayden summarizes the study abroad programs available worldwide and provides resources for students who wish to continue their education overseas. |
Spanish Language Study in Latin America
Volker Poelzl describes the many options for language study in Latin America and provides inside tips. |
Language School Hopping: Study Spanish Across Central America
Jennifer Colletti participates in an organized language learning vacation which includes six different language schools in four different countries. |
Study French in France
Sharon Goldstein sorts through the many options in France for language immersion study. |
Paid Software Internships in India
Transitions Abroad offers a glimpse of a summer job in India’s dream software company, based in Bangalore, South India - a fascinating opportunity for paid study and work abroad. |
Work, Study, Travel: The Combination Allows You to Live Abroad as a Local
Jen Swanson's story provides tips, inspiration and resources on how to extend your travel overseas by incorporating short-term work with study abroad. |
Heading in a New Direction: Why More Graduates Live and Work Abroad
Alexa Hackbarth describes why American students are seeking international jobs in record numbers and how to do so. |
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| Tips for Drafting a Reliable Travel Budget
Transitions Abroad's Independent Travel columnist Rob Sangster offers tips for creating a budget travel checklist appropriate for your destination.
Rob and Tim Leffel have just collaborated on Traveler's Toolkit: Mexico and Central America, which is a new classic on practical travel planning and cultural immersion in the region. |
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Europe's Online Travel Deals
Rick Steves contributed his work as a columnist for Transitions Abroad for almost two decades. Here he navigates the Web to find the best budget travel deals in Europe. |
Italy 101
Rick Steves offers practical tips for budget and cultural immersion travel in Italy. |
Budget Adventure Travel: Tour the World on a Bike
Friedel Rother describes the many options for bicycling abroad or anywhere in the world—which range from independent to luxury group travel. |
Cheap Air Travel in Europe: Low-Cost Options for Flights Are on the Rise
Volker Poelzl provides tips on how to book flights and researches the best budget airlines within Europe while providing Web resources. |
Budget Travel in Europe
In the first of a series of columns on budget travel in Europe, Kelby Hartson Carr outlines many options for travel on the cheap—still possible with smart planning. |
France on a Budget
Kelby Hartson Carr asserts that rewarding travel on the cheap in France is still possible and includes links to websites which offer cheap accommodations, dining, and transportation. |
Inca Trails: Journey Through the Bolivian and Peruvian Andes
Martin Li takes us on a fascinating cultural and historical journey retracing the ancient Inca Trails through the Bolivian and Peruvian Andes. |
Go Inside Buenos Aires
Daniel Gabriel offer travel tips on how and where to meet the locals in a fascinating yet affordable city perfect for independent and budget travel — a "New World Europe." |
Travel to China's Tropical Treasure
Adam Worcester describes travel to the city of Sanya, at the southern tip of China’s southernmost province, also known as the “Asian Hawaii.” Sanya offers a genuine cultural experience different from the Thailand-Bali-Fiji tourist circuit. |
Travel to Learn in France: Vacation Courses Offer Opportunities for Immersion
Anna Gibson describes some of the many cultural travel options in France. |
Budget African Safaris
David A. Smith describes a safari adventure tour in Mozambique for those who travel on a budget. |
Travel Photography Tips: Taking Photos of Animals and Wildlife
Volker Poelzl provides expert travel photography tips for taking photos of animals and wildlife from both technical and a practical perspectives. |
