Choose Your Own Work Abroad Adventure

Choose Your
Own Work
Abroad
Adventure

2
Hello!
I’m Nicolle Merrill
Founder, GlobalMe School
➔ Speaker
➔ Writer
➔ Instructional designer
I teach people how to build
adventurous global careers in a new
world of work. .
Writing:
futureskills.blog
Courses:
courses.globalmeschool.com

3
Want to prepare your
global audience for
the future of work?
Contact: info@globalmeschool.com
Prior speaking engagements include:
➔ Yale Global Executive Leadership
Program, New Haven, CT
➔ MBACSEA, European Conference,
Dublin, Ireland
➔ Ladies Tech Night & Airbnb, Portland,
OR
➔ Women in Travel Summit, Quebec
City, Canada
➔ AKQA,, Portland, OR

4
Your global
career path
won’t look like
this.

5
Instead it’ll look
a lot more like
this.

“I don’t think anyone can do long-term career planning
with any confidence. We make assumptions about the
indispensability of human beings but machines are
already doing things we thought only humans might be
able to.”
The Guardian: What jobs will be around in 20 years?

7
The new global career reality
AI and automation are changing the nature of jobs and creating
adventurous new opportunities
Careers are stackable and skills are collectable
Digital skills are your passport to crossing borders
There are more opportunities than ever to learn new skills, change
career paths, and cross borders
You have access to an explosion of information to make it happen

Your global career offers far more
opportunities than previous
generations.

Traditional Global Career Paths
Corporate
Work your way into
an overseas expat
package
Foreign Service
Diplomatic lifestyle
plus government
security
NGOs
Get it, never leave,
work around the
world

New Global Career Paths
Digital Nomads
Work remotely for a
company. Set up in a
coworking space, you
choose the location
Academic Fellowships
Mingle with leaders,
learn new skills, build
that global network
Global Startup Jobs
Work in at a
multinational startup
in vibrant cities
around the world
Entrepreneur Abroad
Start your company in a
country that offers
startup visas
Graduate School Abroad
Spend two years with
people from around the
world and get a post grad
work visa
DIY Adventure
Hop between
volunteering,
WOOFing, teaching,
to fund your
adventures

￮
It all
depends
on your
experience
and needs.

Target Search process Length Ideal for
The traditionalist
MNC
corporations/NGOs
structured long-term skilled professionals
The startup junkie
international
startups
unstructured short-term
students & skilled
professionals
The digital nomad
remote
jobs/freelance
unstructured variable skilled professionals
The grad student
Grad programs w/
post-work visas
structured long-term students
The academic
Academic and
professional
fellowships
structured short-term
skilled professionals,
academics
The wanderer Hospitality, farm, TEFL unstructured short-term recent grads
The visa hopper
Countries with
specialty visas
unstructured variable
students, recent grads,
entrepreneurs
Work abroad paths

How to make
progress on your
work abroad goals

Reflect
Research
Collect
Build
Repeat
15

Reflect
16
Start by reflecting on your
needs, cultural interests, and
skills.

Where do you want to go and why?
What could you do?
What do you want in your job?
What do you offer?

Research
18
Become a cultural anthropologist.
What do you know about the
country you want to work in? What
resources are available to help
you?

19
You must persuade an employer in
another country to hire you.
Information is the foundation of
persuasion.

What are the organizations/industries that hire
international professionals in your field?
Where do people find jobs?
How do people get hired?
What cities are most open to
immigrants/expats?
How much do you need to earn to live there?
What visas exist for your career interests?*

*Let’s take a few
minutes to talk
about work visas

5 common work visa
categories
Sponsorship for highly skilled workers (employer sponsored)
Post-education work visa (limited time frame)
Entrepreneur visa
Working holiday visa (age limit, limited time frame)
Professional cultural exchange visa (limited time frame)

You have access to an
explosion of resources
to help you cross
borders.

Collect
32
Collect the skills you need to
cross borders

Language skills
Soft skills
Global dexterity
Digital skills

Top in-demand skills globally
Data science/analysts
Machine learning
Software engineers/developers
Product management
UX/UI design
SEO/SEM marketing
Cyber security

Collect in demand skills
Bootcamps
abroad
▫ General
Assembly
▫ Course Report
Online
microdegrees
▫ Udacity
▫ FutureLearn
▫ Coursera
Online learning
▫ Uma Hub
▫ Italki.com
▫ Skill Crush
▫ Treehouse
Learning

Build
36
Build a power squad of people who
understand your goals and/or
have international work
experience.

37
Global career adventures are better
with people. Don’t go it alone.
Find your adventure tribe.
Engage your power squad.

Your power squad includes
People who live in your target country
People who know how to get hired in your target
city
People who work abroad
People who are curious about culture, language,
and places
People who can teach you new things

Repeat
39
Don’t stop reflecting, researching,
collecting, and building.

40
Prepare for your next
career experience,
even after landing a
new job.

41
Want to prepare your
global audience for
the future of work?
Contact: info@globalmeschool.com
Prior speaking engagements include:
➔ Yale Global Executive Leadership
Program, New Haven, CT
➔ MBACSEA, European Conference,
Dublin, Ireland
➔ Ladies Tech Night & Airbnb, Portland,
OR
➔ Women in Travel Summit, Quebec
City, Canada
➔ AKQA, Portland, OR

42
Thanks!
Nicolle Merrill
@pdxnicolle
@globalme_school
Courses:
Courses.globalmeschool.com
Writing:
futureskills.blog
Workshops and speaking:
info@globalmeschool.com

Choose Your Own Work Abroad Adventure

Recomendados

Recomendados

Mais conteúdo relacionado

Semelhante a Choose Your Own Work Abroad Adventure

Semelhante a Choose Your Own Work Abroad Adventure (20)

Último

Último (20)

Choose Your Own Work Abroad Adventure