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Working in DevelopmentWorking in Development
Working in Development a 45 page booklet full of ideas on how you can improve your chances to get your first or next development job. It is written specifically for career changers and new graduates. Find out what is important to development agencies besides your hard skills!
e>volve
Do you want to work in aid and development? If so, then e>volve is for you. It's not an academic course but an exciting email course to help you think and plan your career in international aid & development

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Travel and Health Insurance
for gappers, volunteers, NGO workers and travellers

National Insurance
for long-term overseas workers wanting to keep up NI payments

Criminal Records Bureau Disclosure
for those working with children and vulnerable adults

Ethical Careers Guide
This guide gives readers advice and inspiration through penetrating features, challenging opinion, revealing interviews, organisation fact files and dozens of incisive career profiles. It's 192 pages, full colour throughout, on quality recycled paper.

Perfect CV (Perfect S.)

The Perfect CV
A concise and invaluable guide that gives you the blueprint for the perfect CV. It shows you clearly and quickly how to present you and your skills and experience in the best possible way - and how to avoid the many easily-made mistakes which swiftly antagonize potential employers.

International Directory of Voluntary Work
The book covers short-, medium- and long-term residential possibilities in Europe and around the world in addition to non-residential opportunities in the UK. There are opportunities for both skilled and unskilled workers of any age group to work in conservation, education, development, medicine, archaeology, agriculture, with refugees or orphans, and many other fields.

Guide to Volunteering for DevelopmentGuide to volunteering for Development 
Listing over 350 aid, development and gap-year organisations and packed with ideas on how anyone can be involved in development locally and overseas. This guide explains simply what is available within International Development and answers the most common questions about volunteering and working overseas.
Opportunities Abroad
Europe's only development job magazine. A copy may contain between 250 to 400+ jobs in over 40 countries - including the UK - from a range of international and UK agencies, consultants and professional recruiters. Jobs for skilled workers in management, administration, finance, agriculture, education, health, social and community, technical and the UK.
Get Practical

Get Practical
Travel advice and information e-book for anyone volunteering or working overseas, with 200 sections and over 500 web links. All you need to know for preparation, getting there, being there, returning - and ideas for what to do next!

 

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