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| Have you contacted the management directly? They might not even be aware of the offer. |
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crackedpleasures
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Location: travelling (currently Berlin, longing for the Middle East)
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| Pandora wrote: | | I don't know but seriously, it's the sort of thing I'd avoid like the plague. It's pretty slack of them not to organise accommodation or at least to give you some tips on good places to try. |
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I never had any employer offering me accomodation, unless they'd deduct it from my salary. I was never offered accomodation really for free. The only things I got for free since I started travelling around, were two companies willing to pay my flights for either the final interview or the actual relocation. I think it is only normal you have to sort out your accomodation yourself, no? If you choose to travel, this means you know you will to frequently go househunting, it is not up to the company to sort out your place to stay - unless it is included in the salary but then usually that salary will be low. To be offered both a high salary and free housing, I find that quite weird and mainly this makes me suspicious...
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traveller011212
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My advice:
1) Call a random drone from that company and ask them what working there is like. Don't call someone who's line may be listened to "for quality purposes".
2) Call companies that have worked with this company (check references).
This could actually be a dream job or they are selling you hell. If they are rapidly expanding then someone who speaks four languages would be their dream candidate. |
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Pandora
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| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:52 am Post subject: |
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| crackedpleasures wrote: | | Pandora wrote: | | I don't know but seriously, it's the sort of thing I'd avoid like the plague. It's pretty slack of them not to organise accommodation or at least to give you some tips on good places to try. |
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I never had any employer offering me accomodation, unless they'd deduct it from my salary. I was never offered accomodation really for free. The only things I got for free since I started travelling around, were two companies willing to pay my flights for either the final interview or the actual relocation. I think it is only normal you have to sort out your accomodation yourself, no? If you choose to travel, this means you know you will to frequently go househunting, it is not up to the company to sort out your place to stay - unless it is included in the salary but then usually that salary will be low. To be offered both a high salary and free housing, I find that quite weird and mainly this makes me suspicious... |
It wouldn't bother me to have a lower salary and guaranteed housing but what it important to remember is I'm not high enough functioning to be able to work out my own accommodation in a strange country. Some people are, and more power to them.
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ClosetAspy
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| Sounds VERY fishy to me. You could end up getting trapped in a foreign country with no way to get home. National Geographic had an article about construction workers who were lured to Dubai by the promise of high wages, only to find that they were practically slaves. They were in debt to their companies and could not leave. I would NEVER NEVER work overseas for a company I was not personally acquainted with. You don't know what you are getting into. |
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Bozewani
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Location: Somewhere in the Universe
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Morocco is a very fishy country to work in.
Even if you are fluent in Arabic, it's still weird.
First, the justice system is much harsher,secondly you are in are really in a wild, wild west where anything could happen.
Don't go to Morocco, it's not the place for you.
There are only two African countries where I could imagine someone having a decent life, and those are South Africa and Botswana, nowhere else. |
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