But very few openings are advertised, despite the listings in Monster, Hotjobs and others. Employers hiring for federal contracts and sub-contracts have very strict guidelines and recordkeeping requirements for their recruiting process, which means you may never hear from them even if you do apply through their own site.

Finding overseas contracting jobs is a process, with no easy tricks or shortcuts...

     To have a chance of finding an overseas job with these companies, you have to:

     And you have to do all these things without wasting your time...

Fast track employment information for 140 companies with overseas jobs.
 

• You can direct access company job site pages, saving tons of time. You've probably experienced this problem already. You go to a company site and spend a half hour trying to figure out where their employment pages are. Not anymore. We've found them for you. One click and you're there.
   
• Hiring information so you know exactly what they are looking for. Most employers have very specific ways they want you to us when applying for jobs. Now you'll know up front and save a lot of wasted effort.
   
• Current news about them, both from their website and from a vast variety of other news sources. This helps tremendously at interview time, especially when they expect you to know about their company.
  
   

Network with experienced professionals on our members-only discussion forum.

     Our  forum has been fortunate to have experienced people offering solid advice on a whole range of issues, for example:

Thumbs Up... I'm a person who likes to follow things to the source. I had the same questions many of you did about Danger Zone Jobs. So, first I invested in a subscription and then recently on my travels to Kuwait I had the pleasure and opportunity to meet and talk extensively with the owner and editor. I give a thumbs up to both the web site and it's originator/owner, William Beaver. Lyle Hendrick former SF officer, two-tour private security contractor in Iraq, and now a consultant to various companies on security and reconstruction issues. Recently featured in New York Times Magazine.

 

Find out about successful job search strategies from people already working in it...
 

• Media Monitor of news and articles related to working in danger zones. We monitor the media daily and include updates on the news and features stories you need to know about.
   
• Industry news and contract awards - also monitored daily.
   

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Recent information on working conditions so that you can approach job offers with confidence and knowledge.

     Yes, definitely. All basic raw information is free if you are willing to trade enough time to discover it.

     We collect and collate some of the best information, advice and sources around, and present it to you in a way that you can quickly deal with and act on.

     There are bits and pieces of it in dozens of different websites, books, journals, trade publications, and in papers and magazines. And, if you care to spend the hours daily looking for it, you can get most of it free.


But is it really free?

     The first thing you need to consider is the amount of time and effort spent tracking down the information you're looking for.

     Your leisure time is important. The last thing you want to do is waste it in front of a computer trawling through hundreds of pages and emails trying to find some useable information.

      Even when you track the information down, the next step is trying to make use of it.

      You could spend the next five weeks reading every web page devoted to finding a job with the private military firms and defense contractors, and still end up confused.

      Think about it. If information was water, you would be drowning, right?

      Will the free information you find work for you? The only way you can know for sure is to put it to the test, then cross your fingers and hope you have the results to show for it.

How much time can you spare?

      The editor of dangerzonejobs.com spends a good part of each and every day going through news alerts, newspapers, magazines, and trade journals, reading company websites, reading other forums, checking out new sources and new leads, talking with people in the business, trying to find the best stuff for your needs.