International IT recruitment sites

[Chris Hurley]

Hello all,

First of all, I've been reading these posts for a while now and I think the stuff that goes up is really interesting. I have a question for you though and I hope you can help. I've been looking for jobs abroad for a while now with little to no luck. My first thought was Canada, but I was a week late for the open visas! There is another sort of visa that requires you to have a job offer, but nobody over there will offer you a job without a visa! Catch 22 right! Since that seems to be a dead end I've decided to go somewhere I'm eligible to work, namely somewhere within the E.U. My first thought was France seeing as I have decent enough French. The problem there is that i don't have enough to secure a job (the job itself wouldn't require great French, but the HR department only reply to your emails in it!). Then I went to the university careers department which has helped me many times before. They suggested recruitment agents. Their delicious page isn't great on this topic though. I tried looking for topics tagged Recruitment Agents and Europe, but most of them weren't much help. The majority of them just bring you to a page where you are again forced to read through a different language (Google translate isn't much help as it doesn't translate any of the buttons etc, mostly just the main text on the site...). Then any of the sites that claim to be English speaking don't seem to have any IT jobs listed.

I've spent a while now looking through a lot of these sites, but there must be an easier way. So I thought I'd ask here to see if any of you have come across a decent English speaking, International job site or recruitment agency. Monster is decent, but all the jobs listed are described in the local language. I've signed up to a few recruitment agencies like BeesWax and Grafton (and a few French ones), but they haven't been much help yet.

My main interest is security, but I'd happily work doing Android, web or embedded stuff.

Any help in any form is greatly appreciated,

Chris

P.S. Sorry for the big long spiel :)

[Jodi Schneider]

Have you tried searching LinkedIn for jobs? They seem to have more than a few.

I wouldn't let French correspondence with HR departments deter you
from a job -- others (like me) can certainly help with that.

Asking your Cisco contacts for leads might also help -- perhaps they
could help you find an internship in Canada?

When's the next open visa period?

-Jodi