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Work Abroad

Working abroad can be a very rewarding and enriching experience. It will help you to continue developing many more transferable skills, such as communication, curiosity, creativity and critical thinking, and you will pick up knowledge of other countries and cultures and become more confident, open-minded and self-aware. These skills can be applied to a wide range of different jobs, activities and industries and are highly sought after by future employers. While you are busy broadening your horizons, you will acquire some great life-skills for the future.

Getting Started

Things to consider

Below are some useful websites which provide information, advice and links to help you get started so that you can prepare mentally, financially, and physically and make the most of the opportunity:

  •  - In partnership with AGCAS (Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services) find information on working and living abroad in specific countries; including language requirements, where you can work, job hunting tips, application methods and visa basics.
  •  – The working abroad section of this website provides comprehensive coverage of over 50 countries, with links to other relevant websites and resources.
  • - The Country Careers Guides provide useful information, hints and tips about working abroad.

You can also read our Cultural Awareness section at the bottom of this page.

 

Finding opportunities abroad

The below websites can provide access to a range of different types of opportunities abroad.

  •  – Visit their 'Working abroad' section (within the Jobs and Work Experience area) to find comprehensive coverage of over 50 countries on visas, language requirements, and where to look for jobs abroad as well as links to other relevant websites and resources.
  • * - 黑料网's own vacancy system has thousands of graduate jobs, placements, internships, part time work and voluntary roles a year. 
  •  - This site offers access to over 932 job boards in over 244 countries.
  •  - Searching jobs around the world.
  •  - The European Job Mobility Portal, for help and advice searching for work within Europe.

*PLEASE NOTE - whilst we do our utmost to evaluate each role advertised via Target Connect please assess each opportunity carefully and consider whether or not your personal circumstances will be affected by taking up the opportunity. Whilst we have made every effort to check the roles advertised, we cannot always guarantee their authenticity*

What can I do abroad?

Student Exchanges

黑料网 is part of the Erasmus scheme, a European Union exchange programme which provides students with the opportunity to study abroad at other European Universities as part of their course.  The University also has a limited number of student exchange places with other international institutional partners in Australia, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and the USA.  Have a look at the pages for further information.

Global Summer Internships

There are a host of exciting summer internships abroad to apply for – all of which will give you invaluable global employability skills and widen your cultural experience. 

You can also find useful practical advise and support about visas, finance and insurance as well as how you can improve your language skills on the Exchanges pages.

 

Talent Match Global: Opportunities & Insights of work abroad 

Developed to give you access to a variety of virtual internship experiences with organisations based around the world.  These are designed specifically to give you access and insights of the workplace abroad, as well as develop employability skills sought after by employers.

Our schemes provide different experiences:

VIRTUAL INTERNSHIPS: 

Paid short-term virtual internship experiences (50 hours), working with companies abroad on a project or tasks, increasing your employability by gaining valuable global skills and experience. Open to all 1st & 2nd year undergraduates from any discipline and taking place July - September 2024.

 

Additional Vacancy websites to search:

NOTE: Some Summer internships may require language skills and be unpaid.  In addition, some providers who organise summer internships on behalf of employers often charge a fee to take part. We strongly recommend you carefully read the details to understand what is involved.

 

Teaching

Teaching abroad is a great way of doing voluntary work or getting paid to see the world.  Some countries will expect you to have some kind of teaching qualification, whereas others may employ you without it.

See our Teach Abroad information (link at the bottom of the page) about teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL). 

Volunteering

You can work as a volunteer all over the world. There are a wide range of opportunities in a diverse range of areas from conservation and the environment, education and arts to support for children and families. Projects can last from a week to several years. 

Opportunities for researchers

There are opportunities abroad for researchers in academic research and in non-academic positions.