A resource for exploring a career in international education, exchange, or development.
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The U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy in Des Moines, Iowa (which has a nice compilation of career resources on its website) is looking for two interns (unpaid) for this summer and fall. I’m told that hours and days are flexible...
The Obama administration “strongly supports the concept of rewarding excellence with additional pay”: but is rewarding excellence the same thing as the much-maligned “pay-for-performance” system...
Temp agencies are often viewed as a last resort, the refuge of those who have gone as long as they possibly can without work and now desperately need a paycheck...
Too good to be true? Probably. Starting a new job often means moving to a new city, and moving to a new city means the dreaded task of finding an apartment. Craigslist is clearly the preferred method for renters and landlords to connect, and for the most part this system seems to work well...
Lisa I just found out about your book and blog...I can't wait to read this! Thanks.
World Learning is cutting 14 positions and implementing a 5% salary cut for FY 2010. Guh...
Responding to my impression that the world of visas and immigration is chock full of lawyers, Lynn Shotwell, executive director of the American Council on International Personnel (and a lawyer herself), tells me that while she understands where my impression came from (a large number of presenters...
You know your interview will end with the inevitable, “So, do you have any questions?” but you still don’t know what to ask. Alanna suggests 10 questions to fill the void...
“What’s the hottest invite in Washington?” former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers asks… “It’s a pickup game with Obama...
I’ve never been a big proponent of too much planning when it comes to a career. While I’ve always been a person of many interests, I’ve never been blessed with the grand foresight as to how channel those interests into a coherent and linear professional career...
My friend Geoff Gloeckler at BusinessWeek compares the difficulties the Class of 2009 is facing with those the endured by the Class of 2002. His focus is on MBA grads, but I think his overall message applies to international relations graduates too...
I spent much of the past two days immersed in the numbingly-detailed yet vitally-important world of visas, immigration, and global mobility at the American Council on International Personnel’s (ACIP) 2009 sympoisum...
CNN throws us a bone with 25 ways not to. These are solid, practical tips, many of which have been discussed here in some form (including, most recently, #7: the generic cover letter)...
James Fallows ponders the seeming incongruity of an FSO post in Shanghai warranting nearly half as much hardship pay as posts in cities like Kabul and Baghdad. Doesn’t seem like serving in a major, booming city like Shanghai is quite as “hard” as serving in a war zone, Fallows thinks...
We all know that everything on the Internets is fair game. It’s becoming more and more common for a potential employer to Google you to see if they can uncover anything (especially something unseemly or unsightly) that didn’t come across in the interview...
The following is a guest post from a young woman named Lauren Glasser, whom I recently met (the circumstances of our meeting are contained in the post). Enjoy...
…are available via FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships), a Department of Education-sponsored program that provides fellowship allocations to IHEs (institutions of higher education) to assist grad students in foreign language and area or international studies...
I’m a proponent of well-crafted, solid, specific cover letters. This, which I received as a blind job inquiry, is not one of them: Dear Hiring Manager: If you could design the next team member for your organization, would the following meet your toughest requirements...
“Happiness, like peace or passion, comes most when it isn’t pursued,” writes Pico Iyer in a “Happy Days” dispatch from yesterday’s Times...
Pollster John Zogby says that college students and young professionals are “more globally aware and less concerned about material wealth than were their predecessors.” A growing proportion are “earning less than they did in their last job,” but are happier and more spiritually fulfilled...
Or sort of. The State Department has a careers page on Facebook, including a careers in foreign affairs group. Hat tip: DiploPundit
You’ve probably noticed the little gold seal that’s been floating in the right hand column for the last few months—proof that Working World was a finalist for the 2008 ForeWord Career Book of the Year award. Well, the awards ceremony was last Friday and, well…we didn’t win...
I’m genuinely puzzled by Nick Kristof’s bizarre column from this past Saturday’s Times...
A few last thoughts and then I think I’m done discussing last week’s NAFSA conference: —The Irish universities reception was tamer than I expected (it’s apparently gotten pretty out of hand in the past) but was still a great time—how couldn’t it be with all you can drink Guinness,...
One of the most difficult aspects of teaching high school English in northeast China was supervising my students, establishing and maintaining some kind of authority over them without succumbing to the desire to try to be their friend...
Here’s something I didn’t come across during the NAFSA conference (I can’t imagine how I missed anything there…[note sarcasm due to exceedingly large scale of conference proceedings]): research reporting that “even short-term study abroad seems to lead to improvements in students’ sense...
After the NAFSA conference in LA, I bounced up to San Francisco to visit with three Alliance members, all of whom are involved in international exchange in different ways...
One of the many sessions I attended at the NAFSA conference was “The Young and the Restless,” a panel of young professionals discussing issues of being a young professional in international education...
I’m back from California and digging out from the under the real work that awaited me, but have a lot on tap, mostly thoughts and reactions from the NAFSA conference in LA and my jaunt up to San Francisco...
When Mark and I were consumed with researching, writing, and polishing our prose, I never gave much thought to how we would eventually promote the book once it was published...
The talk of the NAFSA conference today is an article in USA Today looking at U.S. student safety while studying abroad and the oversight of study abroad programs by universities and providers (it’s the first thing everyone saw when they opened their hotel doors for their complimentary newpapers)...
Waiting for my sessions here at NAFSA to get going, I ponder the WashPost’s contemplation of the translation technology revolution: “How big a deal will it be to culture and society to have a cellphone that will allow you to talk to most of the world’s 6 billion people?” To this day, if...
Keeping with my so-far predominant impression of the NAFSA conference—i.e., that it’s big—it was delightfully ironic to come across The BIG Guide to Living and Working Overseas by Jean-Marc Hachey on the shelves of the NAFSA bookstore...
Question: if you’re at the Staples Center in LA this week and run into flocks of beautiful, famous people, are they attending: a) Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals, Lakers v. Nuggets, b) the NAFSA 2009 Annual Conference & Expo, c) WWE Smackdown, or d) a Dane Cook show? Yes...
According to Chris Blattman, currently in Liberia, “how to respond to a former rebel general that you don’t necessarily need his ‘protection’ for your survey and help in ’sensitizing’ the communities.” Blattman’s mobile dispatches from the field are entertaining and instructive...
I noted on Friday that, while the State Department ranked a high fifth in the ‘09 rankings of best places to work in the U.S. government, it ranked much more poorly in the subcategories of Pay and Benefits and Family Friendly Culture and Benefits (17th and 26th)...
Thanks to everyone who chimed in on our discussion, started last Sunday, on “voluntourism” and international volunteering. The post generated some passionate and lengthy feedback, so I want to revisit the topic, both to round-up what’s been said as well as to allow myself a few more thoughts...
A friend of mine here in DC (a lawyer for a nonprofit that advocates for victims of international human trafficking) tells me that this summer will be a tough market for internships...
The long-awaited 2009 rankings for the best places to work in the federal government are out! Sadly, because he’s now out of office, the bureau that coordinates Dick Cheney Wrangling is no longer eligible for consideration...
DC job hunter Michael Volpe pulls out all the stops. Good lord, it can be tough out there. From today’s WashPost, a pity-inducing yet somehow inspiring profile of a young Peace Corps alum’s quest to find gainful employment...
Sitting through a batch of meetings and hearings this week on Capitol Hill (during one of which I was about six feet from Hillary Clinton as she testified—very cool), I was reminded of the many opportunities available for an internationally-oriented career as a Congressional staffer...
Richard Florida makes the case for choosing the city that you’d like to get a job/build a career in wisely: Getting ahead in your careertoday means more than picking the right first job...
I mentioned on Saturday that I wanted to further discuss the merits of international volunteering...
Ah, ‘this economy’—my much-maligned, least favorite phrase of 2009. Thankfully Patty Stonesifer and daugher Sandy at Slate don’t use it in offering advice on finding a hands-on, do-gooding job in a recession...
Via David Comp, the U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy has a nice compilation of internship, fellowship, and job resources for the international career seeker, especially recent graduates. [The U.S...
I wanted to take a second to return to the Hillary speech at NYU’s commencement that I alluded to yesterday. I took the time to listen to it in full today and…wow. I want to meet the person who is writing this stuff and buy him/her a beer...
Something I came across awhile back but neglected to post amidst the hub-bub of creating the new site: government agencies can now post jobs, internships, volunteer opportunities, events, and programs on Idealist.org...
Michael Kleinman at Humanitarian Relief introduces a new resource at Change.org, Jobs for Change, which he helpfully describes: The goal is to help recruit a new generation of leaders into the nonprofit, government, and social enterprise sectors...
Garrett Kuk at Focused Communication provides some very useful tips on making your email communication with a potential employer or contact as effective as possible: Make it easy to say yes. If you’re asking for a favor or advice, limit their options...
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