Although this site is geared toward students considering study abroad, many sections of this site contain useful and relevant information for students considering working, or simply traveling abroad. We recommend you visit the following sections of this Handbook:
Travel Planning
Medical Care and Insurance
Basic Health and Safety
Risk Factors and Strategies to Reduce Risk
Crisis Management
How Foreign Laws Apply To You
Methods of Communication While Abroad
Culture Shock
Returning Home: Duties and Customs
Re-Entry Culture Shock
Making the Study Abroad Experience Count at Home
For those interested in working, be sure to view University of Michigan’s International Center’s Overseas Work Opportunities website, and the University of Irvine’s International Opportunities website; these two sites include numerous work-abroad related resources with information on short-term, long-term, paid, volunteering, interning and teaching abroad opportunities.