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veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Brad.

It is very late in the hiring season here. There have been comments here on these boards about most of the better places being done hiring for the year. (like UAEU, AUS, HCT, ZU)

The places that are left are naturally the less desirable places. I expect that MLI may still have spaces because most of the people that I know that have been offered positions have declined. Refer to the many threads on the UAE section.

As to advancing salary - I doubt that there is any place that would be foolish enough to advance much more than a month's salary. (Was that your comment added suggesting 50%????) And that would likely only occur after you have been in country for awhile. Banks will often loan money based on your approved contract, but again it usually takes a month or two or three in country before you have your finalized contract in hand. Too many expats in the past have just accumulated money and disappeared.

One possibility is that some of the employers give a furniture allowance. I suppose you could buy only a bare minimum and then you would have the rest to use as you wish. But employers vary greatly in how quickly you receive that money. At one job I had it in the first week and in another, I didn't get it until I had been there for over 3 months. (It took almost as long before I got any salary at all.)

VS