Vision Statement
Driven by the ideals of our readers and subscribers, our vision is to remain the world’s leading authoritative source for international career advice for college students and young professionals.
We are guided in our belief that:
- Culturally sensitive and adept individuals can better succeed internationally,
- Individuals can create a more integrated world by adopting the outlook of a global citizen.
Jean-Marc Hachey is driven in his passion to make a difference to the lives of young people and to bring life to new ideas in support of college students and young professionals building their international career credentials.
He and his team work to support the parallel objectives of our partners in creating and enhancing global career skills and global citizenship ideals by working with colleges and universities.
Corporate Objectives as a Social Enterprise
We are a social enterprise, reinvesting the majority of our revenues back into our service offerings in order to promote our vision.
We strive to develop career advice at the highest level by providing better services and more information to our readers, partners and clients by:
- Launching the “Tools” section of The BIG Guide Online to expand our offerings of educational products during 2008 and 2009
- Working closely with our research partners in Chennai, India to expand our offering of resources since 2007
- Expanding to the United States and Europe since 2005
- Expanding in the future to Asia in 2009 and the Middle East in 2010
We strive to be at the forefront of technological change and innovation:
- The first of four print editions was produced with advanced databases in 1992
- The www.workingoverseas.com web site was launched in 1994
- The online subscription system for individuals was launched in 2004
- The College Site Access system was launched in May 2008
