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Aug

Want a Job in the United States?

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Because finding a job can be frustrating!

Global Girl Advice on the US Job Search from Abroad:

Now that we are having some better outlooks on the job front in the United States, I thought I could actually write a post like this…

Writing a Resume to Get a Job in the United States:

Yesterday I met with a American friend of mine that lives in Brazil teaching English and doing translations. We decided to do something very American, and go get a Starbucks together. She began telling me about one of her translation jobs for a Brazilian business man who wanted to translate his C/V into English in order to try and get a job in the United States. When the business man asked her to translate the “currículo” (resume), she thought “Of course I can translate it for you,” thinking to herself that this would be a good way to get some easy money translating a page or so long resume that mostly requires translating words rather than wordy sentences.

Unfortunately, she was not aware of the wordiness of most Brazilian C/Vs, and ended up stuck with four pages of every unimportant detail of this man’s work life. This reminded me that every country is different in how they want people to document their skills and work, and so I decided to write a little about what most United States’ resumes look like to help people who want to get a job there.

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Jun

Finding a job in one country from another

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cartoon This post came about for two reasons: 1) I have had the pleasure to discover a quite funny blogger, Rachel, who is a girl from New York City who spent the last two years in Brazil. She recently returned to the US and has started writing about her job hunt woes. 2) My boyfriend Leandro is sitting right next to me currently applying for jobs in the United States from Brazil. We’ve been scheming whether it is better to put my parent’s address in the US as his address, and how he can explain his eligibility to work in the United States through a simple “Yes” or “No” scroll down bar. One’s eligibility to work in the US is not a yes or no situation–he could be eligible to work legally in the US if it was necessary because we could get married, but he would prefer a work visa, and if he does have to have a marriage license, he would have to apply for it. It’s hard enough for US citizens to reduce their life’s work into yes or no automated job application options, let alone for one who is applying from across seas.