如何通过国外工作来增强大学的简历

去哪里和做什么

诺拉·邓恩（Nora Dunn）的故事和照片

考古学在国外工作，发现洞穴中的雕刻。

Many students coming out of college right now—or even recently—have seen high-paying work opportunities diminish. With a slow recovery continuting to impact the United States as well as other countries in an increasingly global economy, companies in many fields are looking to裁员rather than hire new ones, often as part of the automation process or by squeezing existing employees for "greater productivity." For a graduate with little to no work experience this is not always an ideal environment in which to start building a career.

但是，这种黑暗的职业云有一线希望。一个年轻的冒险精神毕业的人毕业了，这是那些难以根据经济恢复缓慢而难以找到工作的人 - 是一个完美的位置，可以利用：旅行的世界和国外工作。实际上，您甚至可能会发现您的简历会借助您的旅行获得所需的踢脚开始。

Who Are You and What Are You Doing With Your Life?

Have you felt a need to have this question fully answered before receiving your diploma or degree? Do you feel pressure to make largely uneducated decisions about your own life? Have you been groomed to know exactly how the rest of your life is supposed to play out, before you even feel like you have had a chance to see the starting gate? Do you sense that a few pieces are missing from the grander puzzle of life? Do you even know how to manage your own finances yet?

Graduation from school often does not prepare you to answer such key existential and practical questions relating to your future life and ability to adapt to day-to-day realities.

Travel Builds Life Skills

几乎每所学校的课程中都有许多洞或缺陷。省略了某些主题，因为建立教育教学大纲的权力认为，父母（或其他课外教练）应该教一些事情，而不是学校老师。批判性能力，例如人际关系和沟通能力，管理财务和解决问题的能力，在学校会涉及，但常常不以全面或适用的方式进行。这些是真实生活技能的例子，这些技能是通过经验而获得和应用的。

Such skills will not necessarily find their way onto your resume, but they will speak volumes during an interview. Some of the skills that an astute employer will pick up on when they see from your resume may well derive from time spent traveling and working abroad.

“我将[国外工作]视为积极的。我相信只需要勇气就可以捡起一年。他们被迫在途中建立联系并结交新朋友，这将发展他们的个人技能，这是任何职业中最重要的属性。这将有助于生活技能，而不仅仅是工作。”

—Ermos Erotocritou, hiring manager, Investors Group

当出国旅行和工作的条件是完美的

Most college (or high school) graduates are in an obliviously optimal position for travel and work abroad. You are young. You are likely fit and unafraid of some hard work (like picking fruit or other physical seasonal jobs) that a more career-battered person might balk at.

您没有抵押贷款。实际上，您可能没有太多昂贵或广泛的财产或账单可以像他们那样为许多长者而来的账单。如果您没有家人或朋友在您缺席的情况下存放您的物品，那么将其全部出售不应该是痛苦的；您可能没有足够的时间来获取那种珍贵的传家宝或昂贵的物品，这些物品会伤心。

You do not have kids. Although travel with children is far from impossible, it is often much easier when all you have to worry about is yourself as you set out to discover the world at large.

您没有任何职业。经常被证明很难离开。

旅行不必花钱

尽管您将在出国旅行之前就可以节省几美元，但是一些审慎的支出以及您在国外工作的收入应该在您的银行帐户中获得积极的余额债务。即使您在出国旅行和工作时必须还清学校贷款，也可以在旅行前安排一些节省和一些计划。

人们会理解的

当我决定开始全职旅行时，我非常紧张地向我的家人和朋友推开新闻。我担心他们不明白为什么我想离开家很久才去旅行，我担心他们会认为我是不负责任的。但是，当几乎每个人都支持我的决定时，我感到非常惊喜 - 甚至表达嫉妒并希望他们有勇气自己这样做。

“I definitely believe travel abroad, and especially work abroad, broaden a person's horizons. I can't imagine anyone thinking that taking time off between graduation and work is a bad thing. You just have to be ready to explain it. Bad explanation: I couldn't get a job so I went traveling. Good explanation: I wasn't going to get this opportunity once I had a job and started developing commitments in life, so I thought post-college was the right time to do it. And boy am I glad I did.....

I know my own travels have always been a subject of discussion in job interviews. It provides one more thing you can potentially use to bond with an interviewer. It's why you put personal interests and the like into a resume.”

- Sanjay Singhal，创始人，简单的有声读物，Graboid，Pricist和TBD。

从旅行者的嘴里...

“我相信旅行绝对有助于我的职业生涯，并使我走下了一条我可能永远不会走的道路。旅行可以帮助人们，因为它会建立好奇心和信心……更不用说跨越全球的朋友网络了。

“I watched friend after friend take the imminent plunge into the workforce, applying for jobs they had no interest in working. I knew immediately there was something better out there.”

In his travels, Grant worked and volunteered his way through Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala for one year. The year shaped his life and career, and he has even written a book on the topic.

What Do You Do Abroad? How Do You Find Work?

30岁以下的人们在从澳大利亚和新西兰，加拿大，英国等许多国家中获得工作签证相对容易。一旦获得工作签证，您的触点就会有各种各样的就业机会。由于某些国家的经济胁迫可能比目前的经济胁迫少，因此一个更繁荣的国家将拥有更多的就业机会。您可能会选择在出国时间的时间内开始在您的专业知识领域中建立自己的职业。

You may also like the idea of teaching English. In countries where it is harder to qualify for a working visa and find a standard job, you can teach English and have your expenses covered in addition to receiving a stipend. In many cases, with a college degree under your belt, even the cost of training will be covered.

再说一次，也许您只想看到整个世界，并从事一系列季节性或临时工作。在热带北澳大利亚州采摘水果没有错，在加拿大或瑞士的世界著名滑雪胜地工作看护in Belize, leading adventure tours in Costa Rica, and bartending in a pub in the U.K. (编者注：see precisely such accounts on our短期工作部分of the website). These jobs will help you build a repertoire of experiences that will not only create amazing memories, but will also help you to determine what you want (and do not want) in your career.

And in defining what you want in your career, you will also be defining a little bit of who you are, such as how you like to spend your time, the kind of people you like to be with, and where you want your life to go. Taking time to work abroad is far from irresponsible; in fact it may render you far richer in the long run than you ever imagined you could be.