Getting a job in Armenia...

I get asked about jobs in Armenia - something I don't follow, I just randomly sometimes hear of jobs. However I have created a good list of online resources to go to in order to find most of the job listings. If you are interested in getting a good expat job (or any job at all) in Armenia, it is a difficult endeavor. The number of good jobs is small, so matching up a good job to the skills you have and the requirements they have can be quite difficult. Most of the jobs are funded by USAID in one way or another, and are therefore easier to get by Americans than by others. There have been a number of cases also where Diasporans are turned away for their ethnicity - as if there can be some clash of loyalty when it comes to spending US money on helping Armenia. That practice seems to have subsided (as my stint at USAID itself, where I was also joined by other Armenians from the US, illustrates). But in general, there is a "development" crowd, a pack of consultants that know each other, and go from country to country doing the same things... this makes it harder to break into the market.

So now, after much discouragement, here is a tool for those of you interested in this sort of thing. I've got a list of job sites on Armeniapedia. Go to the list, and start looking at the job postings. For the fancy USAID funded jobs, go to DevNetJobs, they have a free mailing list (if you ignore all the for money lists) which is supposed to be quite handy for this sort of thing. And as a final encouragement, if in doubt, APPLY! You never know who else is applying and what on your resume will appeal to the selection committees!