how can i get employed outside Zimbabwe?

Question

i am aged 24 and studying ACCA Professional and have more than 3 years experience in accounting environment.

Answer 1

Sadly, your thinking is in the right direction, living in a lovely country which has about 80 per cent unemployment.

If you have to settle temporarily for a job close by, evaluate yourself, arm yourself with a professional-quality resume and cover letter, and show prospective emloyers, by your persistence and other actions that you are as "good" as the 20 per cent that are employed, standing out from the 80 per cent who are not!

With neighboring South Africa having about 30 per cent unemployment, this is still an indication that its job market is saturated with workers. If you go there, be encouraged by the fact that, with your training and experience, you are better qualified than the majority of Zimbabwe people who go there to seek work.

Here is what I would recommend: get a professional-quality cover letter and resume prepared, and go on the Internet and seek job listings compatible with your interests, capabilities, in a place where there is some practical possibility of immigrating to.

Finding any kind of job at all in the distance it is practical to travel to to accept work, you must avoid the pitfall of being trapped in the job. If your are over-qualified or under-employed in that job, treat it as a temporary expedient and keep looking for something more suitable!

People with your high level of education plus experience in accounting are very much in demand in many parts of the world. I can't help but think of the possibility of searching for dynamic sales and marketing organizations based in South Africa, because I have had the experience of working in entrepreneurial businesses where managers were dynamic and charismatic sales people but were sorely lacking in people with accounting skills to assist in management of the firm. Sales people bring in money; accountants convert it into wealth. They need you! But you must be enough of a salesman to convince them of that.

You are young enough to emigrate and spend a few years in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, any country eager to accept motivated and skilled people from Zimbabwe or anywhere else. True, you might be underemployed in those places, too, temporarily, but, in the U.S. at any rate-- the only country I know anything about-- jobs are abundant compared with Zimbabwe or South Africa!

Have your considered Brazil? The cost of immigrating might be formidable, but Brazil's unemployment, at a high of 10.7 per cent in July, is considerably less than Zimbabwe, South Africa, and probably any other African country. And there is surely a higher demand for trained accountants than in most other fields.

A move to another country need not, of course, be permanent.

Good luck in your job search. You have years ahead of you. The key reaching your goals in life, including the kind of job you want, is persistence, grooming yourself for success, treating mistakes and failures as the valuable learning experiences they are.

Answer 2

dude this is totally the wrong site to look for a job, and the fact that u actually asked that question here shows that u are not that bright and should not leave Zim

Answer 3

yes as a personal accountant to Mugabe

Answer 4

Fill out a job application.

Answer 5

This may be the wrong site for you.

I am sure you will achieve your goals.

When you do, explain where my P87 payment is.

Good luck.

Answer 6

hire people without AIDS