Job Story: Getting American Job References

By Iliana Rivera-Dogan, May 2012 I was born and raised in Mexico. I got my degree as a Dental Surgeon and worked a few years before I moved to this country. Finding a job hasn’t been easy, no matter what you do, no matter where you are. Just looking something that...

Job Story: Working as Sightseeing Guide

By Gundula Schmidt-Graute. May 2010 We arrived August 2008 and as a “dependent spouse” I wanted to resume working as soon as possible. But: In Germany I had worked with the German language: journalism, copywriting, ghostwriting, editing, translating and proofreading....