miércoles 21 de noviembre de 2007

Working overseas



To work overseas you’ll need to have in mind a lot of aspects because everything is different from here because you graduate from school or university with another kind of diploma and you’ll need to make it valid, going to the embassy of the country you will go and work with. The diploma is not the unique problem because being a foreigner obliges you to have a working visa and it is very difficult to reach it, because the embassy will study your visa request for a long time ago, and sadly being Colombian it make a longer time on queue because our situation as a country is not as good as we wish and the image that we have against the whole world is very bad, that’s why all the countries and their embassies including the Argentinean embassy are very tough taking decisions on Colombian people requests.
Also, you have to get your residence, because without a residence you won’t get job easily that’s another visit to the embassy and another extended waiting line.

When you finally get all the papers in order you need to work overseas obviously you are not always welcome on the country you will go, is just luck, because the locals are very closed and if they know you are foreigner you will be rejected from everywhere. This situation is not in all the cases because if you are a good worker and you make the hardest effort among your co-workers you will be necessary and a very important tool to the company you will work with. Finally and as a conclusion I would like to say that working overseas is not a complete chaos, there are also good news and good experiences with your work, but reaching that happiness is a tough way but it is possible.