Couper also suggests leapfrogging over HR if you get no response to your follow-up note.
Another idea Couper suggests: Set out on vacation and try plying your trade where you land.
Couper Samuelson, a producer in Los Angeles, recently bought a top-of-the-line Samsung high-definition television set.
"If you're giving information that's hitting what they need to know, then they're happy, " Couper says.
Even when they know who you are, interviewers rarely ask good questions, says Couper.
According to Couper, the author of Outsiders on the Inside: How to Create a Winning Career ...
Couper once asked an interviewee if she'd like tea and didn't love it when she said yes.
Perhaps the biggest interview myth, according to Couper, is that the most qualified applicant gets the job.
Both Couper and Segal say a trip in advance is an essential part of making your transition a success.
Spouses should realize that a foreign posting is not a vacation, Couper counsels.
One other caveat both Segal and Couper raise: Think seriously in advance about your family's health care and other special needs.
Couper recalls once when he had to hire actors to perform in training videos for a large corporation where he worked.
Hellmann and Attridge are slightly less pessimistic than Couper, and both say they have had clients who landed jobs by applying online.
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Couper recalls an interviewee accepting his offer of a cup of tea.
David Couper, a native of England, got his first U.S. job at Arthur Andersen in Chicago working on training materials for its international staff.
Interviewers feel obligated to offer job seekers refreshment, but Couper says they really don't want you to say yes to that cup of coffee.
Before he became a consultant and coach, Couper worked in human resources and training at several big companies in Chicago and Los Angeles, including the now-defunct consulting giant Arthur Andersen.
At one interview of a potential sales staffer, Couper was called in at the last minute because another human resources manager had canceled and three bodies were required at the interview table.
There are ways to make the transition easier, according to Couper and Nina Segal, an international career development consultant in New York who wrote International Jobs: Where They Are and How to Get Them.
If you really want to go abroad and don't want to jump through the hoops necessary to land a government or corporate posting first, you can always just up and go, both Segal and Couper suggest.
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