The BIG Guide Online is a comprehensive interactive web site that helps students and young professionals build global career skills.

• Unlimited access to The BIG Guide Online.
• Individual user accounts: This is one of the strongest features of The BIG Guide Online. Individual users can write private notes, yellow highlight, book mark anywhere in the electronic guide as well as up-date their International Self-assessment Quizzes. These customization features helps you stay organized and make long-term use of the Guide.

Content

• The BIG Guide to Living and Working Overseas -- The world's best international career guide!
• Online 24/7 access to The BIG Guide Online:
  • 43+ Chapters of Expert Advice (750,000 words, more than 1,800 pages in book format)
  • 42+ Quick Guides
  • 2,500 Organization Profiles of International Employers
  • 950 Annotated Resources in 67 Bibliographies
• At The BIG Guide Online, we are constantly updating our Web site, keeping all our information as fresh and current as possible. Click here to view a list of recent major up-dates.
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Features

The following features make reading The BIG Guide easy, fun and productive. See also video tutorials. 

• My Profile: Each user can modify and manage their preferences, login information and basic dashboard.
• Navigation: Navigate easily with the Table of Contents, Chapter Details, Crumb Line and other navigation links. Navigation is fast and efficient. This is not a PDF file.
• Private Notes: Available throughout the book, this feature allows users to write private personal notes for future reference. The Insert Date feature automatically notes today’s date on each entry.
• Yellow Highlights: This amazing feature allows readers to highlight important information anywhere in the book.
• Bookmarks: Allows users to mark any section in the book and quickly find important information with the Search feature.
• Quick Guides: Over 42 Quick Guides provide summaries of the most important strategies found in chapters. Editor’s note: The Quick Guides are available as HTML documents here, and are available as PDF files in “Tools” where they are formatted info one-page high-level summaries for easy printing. Quick Guides are very popular with all readers.
• Resources: We researched thousands of web sites and print resources and found the very best. Over 800 books and web sites are fully annotated in 63 topical bibliographies.
• Organization Profiles: Over 2,200 organizations are profiled in 16 categories. These are international employers who regularly send young professionals abroad. There are chapters on the private sector, NGOs, international organizations and government departments.
• Reader Comments: Users can note their own comments for future reference on any of the 3,000 resources and organizations profiled in The BIG Guide Online.
• Reader Contributions: Users are encouraged to publish their own essays (minimum 200 words) for any of the 41+ chapters for viewing by other subscribers. Contributions are sorted by a five-star reader ranking system with the most popular essays at the top.
• List View: The List View shows the alphabetical lists of Resources and Profiles in each chapter.
• Detail View: The Detail View shows the details of the Resource (annotation) or Profile of the organization. These carefully researched annotations/profiles contain written descriptions, full addresses, categorization and Reader Comments.
• Search Views: There are eight search methods.
  • Keyword: Search the entire book using a simple keyword search.
  • Advice/Content: Search for bookmarked sections in the advice/content sections.
  • Resources (Web sites, books, services): Search alphabetically to access all 830+ resources from A to Z. Narrow your search by selecting one of the 64 subject areas and search for bookmarked resources.
  • Organizations: Search alphabetically to access all 2,200+ organizations from A to Z, Narrow your search by selecting one of the 17 organizational categories, Search for bookmarked organizations.
  • Job Categories: Search by choosing from 170 job categories.
  • Countries and Regions of the World: Search by country or region of the world.
  • Cities in North America with International Contacts: Search by North American city for the names of organizations located in that city.
  • ID Numbers: ID numbers are equivalent to an online page number. Each resource and organizational profile is identified by a unique numerical code. All subtitles also have ID numbers. Find information fast by searching for ID numbers.

Tools

• Quick Guide: These are one page summaries of the most popular topics (28+ in English and 16+ in French, with more on the way). Easy to read and print. Valuable to students and young professionals. Many Quick Guides have schematic diagrams that allow readers to understand the bigger picture of our proposed strategies and job search models.
• Self-Assessment Quizzes: Fourteen insightful quizzes are designed as learning quizzes to help readers measure their preparedness in three areas: My International Personality, My International Experience and My International I.Q. Users have a dashboard (My Scorecard) that measures their international credentials with a Bronze, Silver or Gold rating. Quiz answers are permanently saved allowing users to raise their score as they build international experience during their years at school. The Quiz Tips feature provides expert advice for each quiz question and the Private Notes feature allows students to track their skills and objectives inside each quiz.
• Newsletters: These timely bits of information will be sent regularly to users, helping them stay motivated and focused throughout the years as they build international credentials with easy to implement tips from The BIG Guide. Learning tools include: Tip of the Week, Newsletter Archive, and Q&A sessions.
• Quick Tip Video: Videos by author Jean-Marc Hachey, published regularly to inspire students on some of the most sought after subject headings for building global career skills.
• Youtube Faves: Carefully chosen Youtube videos that capture The BIG Guide philosophy.
• Student Advisor Tools: Almost all our student services also help student advisors in colleges. Two services which are specific to student advisors are Campus Projects and International Career Advising. Our list of Campus Projects provides innovative and easy-to-implement ideas on how colleges can create opportunities for students to build their international credentials while in school. Our services for International Career Advising are still being developed so stay tuned.