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"Growing up in the midst of global markets and cultures makes millennials ideal candidates for international job opportunities. Upon graduation, many young professionals choose to take positions overseas, with varying effects on their careers.  \nAccording to the Association of American Residents Overseas, about 6.3 million expatriates from the United States live abroad, and 1.6 million households are looking relocate. And, according to the U.S. News and World Report, adults ranging from 25 to 34 had the largest percentage of households looking to relocate abroad. \nKacey Weinberg, 27, is a marketing professional working for Aspera GmbH, a software asset management company in Aachen, Germany. She moved in 2006 after spending her final semester in Singapore, earning a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Business Administration with a focus on International Business. \n\u201CIt was a childhood dream of mine to move away,\u201D Weinberg says. \u201CFirst to the East Coast. Then when I got older, it changed to overseas.\u201D\nThe University of Southern California alumnus did not speak German when she decided to move; now, she is a fluent speaker and writer. But it wasn't necessary to learn the language \u2014 both jobs she's had in Germany required native English speakers.\nStepstone's Global Talent Barometer Survey 2011 reported a 7% uptick in mobility, with more people expressing a willingness to move abroad since 2006. The Stepstone study attributes much of this to a decrease in the number of baby boomers in the workforce, in conjunction with an increase in internationally mobile young professional workers.  \nAbroad in the Recession\n\n\nJose Castro was excited to try out his newly acquired international business skills when he felt London calling in 2008. The Global Business MBA grad from Pepperdine moved to the UK with his wife the after she was accepted into the Royal Veterinary College. \n\u201CWe saw it as an incredible opportunity for both \u2014 her to study at a great school, and for me to get experience working in a different country, putting to use the skills I have learned in my Master\u2019s program,\u201D Castro says.\nInternational job sites and search engines enable job seekers to find opportunities abroad more easily than in the past. But, as with workers across the globe, the Great Recession affected expatriates in varying ways, depending on their industry and local economy.  \n\u201CThe recession was a good thing for my job,\u201D Weinberg says. \u201CGermany fared the recession pretty well, but software asset management saves companies a lot of money. Many software publishers started to try to compensate for slow sales by auditing their customers, looking for situations where the businesses did not buy enough licenses to cover their use. This is something that software asset management helps to prevent. In the end, the recession lead to higher demand for Aspera\u2019s products and know-how, which meant that Aspera did pretty well, and my job was not in danger.\u201D \nCastro\u2019s job search in the UK fared much differently.  \n\u201CWhen we made the decision to move [to London], I never anticipated it would take me so long to find a job,\u201D Castro says. \u201CIt took me a year of searching.\u201D\nCastro found that job experience overseas is helpful when securing an initial position with international firms.\n\u201CMy two biggest obstacles in finding a job were the lack of jobs because of the recession, and the lack of UK experience I had,\" he says. \"I also later learned that employers must consider UK and European Union applicants before hiring someone from another country.\u201D\nCastro eventually landed a position with TechnologyGroup, an IT consultancy specializing in data management, virtualization, application delivery and building cloud environments for customers in the insurance, finance and e-gaming industry. \nGoing Back?\nBoth Castro and Weinberg consider their time abroad to be beneficial and anticipate they will return stateside at some point in the future.  \n\u201CI love Germany, and it\u2019s definitely my home,\u201D Weinberg says. \u201CBut I will always be a California girl ... I would say Germany is my first home now and where I will live when I am old. But, I could see myself moving home for a couple years somewhere down the line.\u201D\nCastro feels moving back to the United States would be a wise move for him eventually: \"There is more opportunity for upward mobility, and I hope the international experience I\u2019ve gained here will help make me more marketable in the U.S.\u201D\nHave you searched for a job abroad? What was your experience like? Tell us in the comments.\nSocial Media Job Listings\nEvery week we post a list of social media and web job opportunities. While we publish a huge range of job listings, we've selected some of the top social media job opportunities from the past two weeks to get you started. Happy hunting!\n\n Visual Designer at Ahalife in New York City\n Social Media Manager at Remedy Health Media in Arlington, Va.\n Developer Evangelist at Factual in Los Angeles\n\nImage courtesy of iStockphoto, selimaksan."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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