Careers in International Affairs are jointly compiled by a counselor and a student in this new edition of the book. This guidebook provides an overview of the jobs for students of international affairs. It consists of a listing of profiles of some 300 organizations, banking, business, lobbying, consulting, media, nonprofit and educational organizations, and research institutes. In addition to a remarkably broad and deep list of organizations and contacts, this book offers insight and guidance from a career counselor, a graduate student and a practitioner in the international affairs community knowledgeable on networking, interviewing, finding a mentor and choosing the best graduate school. Careers for International Affairs also present numerous firsthand perspectives on various career sectors for those who have found their own international forte from young professionals to senior policymakers. This book is designed to encourage international job seekers to think about what they know and what talents they have to offer, to widen their horizons and reveal all the possibilities, to help them realize that the future could hold several careers and to remind them that it is not too early or too late to consider the variety of options that awaits them around the world.

Careers for International Affairs were issued in cooperation with Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, the oldest and the largest school of international affairs in the United States. Maria Pinto Carland, one of the authors of this book is a counselor to Master of Science in Foreign Service program at Georgetown University and she was also an administrator at the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce and University of Toronto; curatorial assistant at the Metropolitan Museum and Art Gallery of Ontario and program officer at the US United Nations Associations and Foreign Policy Association while Candace Faber is a 2007 graduate of the Master of Science in Foreign Service program at the Georgetown University, where she also served as an editor in chief of the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. She is also a political officer with the United States Foreign Service.