Intl Jobs and Careers

Ronald L. and Caryl R. Krannich are career planning specialists and travel experts who have numerous publications. Buckle up for the rest of my review. It is quite unconventional! (Paraphrased from this point on) International job seekers are the ultimate risk-takers who are seldom obsessed with their careers. Conventional career planning requires job seekers to first assess their skill, abilities, and work values, and then formulate a career strategy that will waste an entire life towards making money, career advancement, and hopefully, long-term employment. It is now common knowledge that average long-term employment has been reduced to an average of 5 years. The absolute reality is that most job seekers, after spending incredible resources in time, effort and money, will often take any job offered to them and compromise their career goals and skills to...do as they're told, oops...match the requirements of particular jobs! The international job market does not respond well to conventional career planning designed around the American work ethic for career success. Work ethics around the world are wonderfully different! There are other variables to consider such as the similarities in the entertainment and the airline industry. They are highly fragmented and segmented - a three-year contract is considered an excellent job opportunity. Few employment arenas are as exciting, rewarding, entrepreneurial, intriguing, mysterious, and fraught with mischief and misfits than in the global jungle. There are very few people who are truly prepared to enter today's rapidly changing international environment. Strike out!!! on an adventure full of travel and heart-felt experiences while generating an income where one's job and personal growth merge into a lifestyle forever enriched. Before embarking on your worklife, begin with the traditional career planning books; second, turn to resume and interview books, and third, get all the conventional knowledge you can...before grabbing every shred of wisdom provided by the authors and examining in detail their many excellent publications. (Also read American Work Values, by Paul Bernstein and see my review.)