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Landing a dev job abroad: 7 simple tips

Andrew Stetsenko on May 01, 2019

Want to move your developer career abroad? Together with Relocate.me experts, we have gathered 7 simple tips that will help you land your dream job...
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Xing Wang

Excellent tips. For my previous company, we had a person who done exactly this. He lives in Spain, but just reached out to us when he was in San Francisco, and we have a talk/interview here in SF. He was one of the best hires we had. The collaboration was so much smoother, since the initial couple weeks he was here in SF.

In many ways, we all still count each other as friends.

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Andrew Stetsenko

Thanks for sharing! I agree that personal meetings help companies to define more precisely whether a person is a good match for a particular vacancy. As for candidates, they can estimate all the pros and cons of their destination. That's why I advice people to combine travelling with job searching. It's great that it worked for your company!

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Aidan Beale

Thanks for the tips Andrew!

Do you have any advice if you're looking to move to a country where you don't speak the native language (Russia in my case)?
Any idea how many tech companies would speak English at the office? Probably doesn't help that I'll be looking for a junior position too.

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Andrew Stetsenko • Edited

Aidan, the specialists willing to move to Russian-speaking countries are in very high demand now. Such countries can boast growing markets and lots of product companies, along with low taxes. Try searching vacancies on jobs.dev.by/ or jobs.dou.ua/. Not all companies there offer visa sponsorship, but some of them certainly do. You should contact the recruiters directly.

As for English, developers in Russian-speaking countries are gradually learning it :) Unfortunately, that's not enough to forget about language barriers yet. For smoother relocation, it's better to be a middle/senior developer. However, nothing is impossible — due to high demand, you still can find something appropriate for you.

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Omar Gaston Chalas

Andrew thanks for sharing these great tips.

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Andrew Stetsenko

Thanks for reading ;)

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Fran González

Thanks for sharing! I'll be looking for abroad jobs in the near future and it's great to have a bit of light in this otherwise confusing path!

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Andrew Stetsenko

Great! What country are you relocating to?

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Fran González

Haven’t decided yet but I think the Netherlands is the perfect match for me. I visited the country some years ago and I loved it and seems to be a place with lots of offers!

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Andrew Stetsenko

Nice choice! There are plenty of developer jobs in the Netherlands, and English is widely spoken :)

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Epyc Jobs

If you're looking for dev jobs in Switzerland you can find jobs and sign up to our job alert here: epyc.ch

Before applying, make sure you inform yourself about how to apply in Switzerland. A good start would be this blog article: Find jobs in Switzerland

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Abhinav Pandey

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