Overseas contracts - where can I find a list of job boards/agents?

[KentPhilip]

I would like to try contracting overseas, anywhere from Eurozone to China. But there are not many overseas jobs on Jobserve.com

Are there any decent websites that are overseas equivalents of Jobserve.com for contract jobs, or even UK websites or agents that handle a lot of those types of jobs.

Japan and China are good places to work at the moment because their currencies have recently gone up 50% relative to the pound.

thanks

Edit I can see three in the "Overseas" section of "Agency Directory" on this site.

[BlasterBates]

For EU and Switzerland you´ll find all the contract jobs for English speakers on jobserve. Some EU IT markets are pretty dead anyway, such as France or Italy.

For all other jobs you would be expected to have a CV in the language. So you can try www.gulp.de for example for Germany speaking countries, and you will see more contracts. But I find the good contracts are on Jobserve anyway.

[d000hg]

I am set up on all areas with JS and I get a lot of US jobs now, very few in Europe but the language thing makes sense, despite most western (well educated) Europeans having excellent English.

I get virtually no jobs showing up for Australasia and Canada though... I might get 10 UK jobs on my daily email but only 1 or 2 from each of those, sometimes none at all. Is that accurate to the amount of opportunities in those places? I suppose both are very large but sparsely populated so maybe it's about right.

[downsouth]

I get virtually no jobs showing up for Australasia and Canada though... I might get 10 UK jobs on my daily email but only 1 or 2 from each of those, sometimes none at all. Is that accurate to the amount of opportunities in those places? I suppose both are very large but sparsely populated so maybe it's about right.

Prob more reflective of trying to attract local contractors, why pay to advertise on Jobserve if you looking to attract in OZ/CAN, I'm sure these countries must have their own specific job boards???

[tim123]

For EU and Switzerland you´ll find all the contract jobs for English speakers on jobserve. Some EU IT markets are pretty dead anyway, such as France or Italy.

For all other jobs you would be expected to have a CV in the language. So you can try www.gulp.de for example for Germany speaking countries, and you will see more contracts. But I find the good contracts are on Jobserve anyway.

Yep, if you don't have language ability, local job site are useless as the people that post there will be wanting people to speak the lingo.

Jobserve is the place that foreign jobs for English speakers are posted

tim

[darmstadt]

For EU and Switzerland you´ll find all the contract jobs for English speakers on jobserve. Some EU IT markets are pretty dead anyway, such as France or Italy.

For all other jobs you would be expected to have a CV in the language. So you can try www.gulp.de for example for Germany speaking countries, and you will see more contracts. But I find the good contracts are on Jobserve anyway.

I get a daily e-mail from GULP of relevant contracts and today there was a rather nice 12 month one going. What is interesting it is also on Jobserve from 2 different agencies yet advertised as permanent, not too sure what is going on there...

For GULP you can also pay €120 a year for membership which allows you a lot of other benefits (daily e-mail for instance and jobs via SMS as soon as they are available) which has been very worthwhile for me having been contacted by various companies and getting contracts

[SomeoneElse]

For Aus, try http://www.seek.com.au/it-jobs/

[greg_canada]

" ~~attract in OZ/CAN, I'm sure these countries must have their own specific job boards "

Can't speak of OZ, but for CA..... try monster.ca OR workopolis.com
BUT remember, when looking in CA -
a) there are work permit req's ( unless you're a Canuck, of course )
b) CA is like the US ie a low cost / low rate economy. Rates have collapsed to the levels of 10 years ago.
c) the country is BIG, but only a couple of IT centres ie TORONTO and MONTREAL ( French is mandatory ).
When I say "Toronto", that includes anything up to 100 miles around, not easily commutable.
( Can take 2 hours just to get to the 'burbs, where many co's have moved. Public transit outside the d-t core is bleak, at best. Great deals on cars though, but as a newcomer you'd get nailed on insurance )
The other big point is to remember the expression " When the US sneezes, CA catches pneumonia ".
Politicians are running around saying "We're better off" but that's relative.
Wait 'til the big three close their assembly plants.......THEN the brown stuff will hit the revolving thing.
The IT world in CA is not that big and opp's are few.

[Mike Hunt]

For France try www.freelance-info.fr

but as stated above you need to be chucking out the lingo

Merci

[d000hg]

For Aus, try http://www.seek.com.au/it-jobs/

Is it only permie positions, I couldn't see a tab/button for contractors.