Posted 03 Sep 2010
US or UK citizens faced with unemployment could consider taking a TEFL course in order to find a job overseas.
The job market in places such as China, which has an unemployment rate of just 4.2 per cent, and Singapore with 2.3 per cent of people out of work, is better than that in the US or UK.
According to CBS.com on September 3rd, travelling overseas to find a job, possibly teaching English, can be a good way of getting back into employment.
Andrea Lazarow, an attorney in the US, was made redundant in May last year and attended hundreds of interviews in her native city of New York to no avail so she decided to try overseas.
She told the news provider: "It seemed that every day I was reading or hearing stories about the booming economy in China and Asia at large, so I thought that there might be opportunities for me there."
She has now found a job teaching English in China at a university.
This could be a good option for people who lost their jobs due to the economic downturn.
In the UK there are fears that the country will decline into a double-dip recession as the private service sector has experienced its slowest growth since April 2009.
Category: Moving Abroad
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