How to Find Remote and Local Jobs When You Move Abroad with Vanessa Wachtmeister

Want to move abroad but keep getting stuck on one BIG question: “How am I actually going to find a job?

In this episode, we sit down with Vanessa Wachtmeister, a travel tech professional, angel investor, and the founder of NearFar and Wander Onwards. Originally from Los Angeles, Vanessa is a proud Chicana who has spent the last 13 years living abroad across countries including China, the UK, Turkey, and Germany. Now, she's preparing for her next international chapter in Beijing. Her story is a powerful reminder that moving overseas doesn’t have to mean sacrificing your career or starting from scratch.

Vanessa has repeatedly navigated the international job market herself, and now she's helping other people figure out how to build careers that give them the freedom to live abroad.

We talk about:

• How Americans can actually find jobs in Europe
• How to search for opportunities offering visa sponsorship
• Why your European CV should look different and why a "boring" CV can actually perform better
• How applicant tracking systems (ATS) can reject your CV before a human ever sees it
• How to optimize your CV and LinkedIn for international opportunities
• What a realistic timeline for finding a job abroad looks like
• The benefits of working under European labor laws
  

Vanessa also gives us a look inside Nearfar (https://worknearfar.com/), her new job-tech platform designed to make finding work abroad easier. It brings together 100,000+ fresh monthly job opportunities and helps users identify English-speaking roles, visa sponsorship opportunities, remote jobs, and personalized matches based on their experience and preferred countries.

If finding work is the one thing holding you back from moving abroad, this episode is for you.

Connect with Vanessa:

https://www.instagram.com/wanderonwards/

https://wanderonwards.co/

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