Jobs That Travel Back and Forth Between U.S. and Asia

Hi all,

Wanted to see if anyone had any idea of the kind of jobs that would fall in this category. So basically, either lots of travel or travel to and from the U.S. and Asia.

Only thing that comes to mind for me is consulting.

Also, any insight into headhunters/firms that specialize in this would be great!

As always, SBs for great responses.

 
Best Response

Lots of options outside of consulting...more as you get more senior...

Investment research (buyside) - if you work at an Asia-focused fund in the US, do regional coverage for a fund with a broader mandate, or even if you're a generalist with a couple ideas in Asia that should get you over there at least a couple times per year. Helps if you have some local language skills. Less common but likewise if you worked at a fund based in an Asian financial center that invested in US equities, you'd have reason to make the trip.

Investment research (sellside) - some firms still have local market specialists in the US. Not much travel at a junior level though. More common would be as a Asia-based analyst for a large bank, you'd do marketing trips to the US and Europe.

MNCs with Asia operations - lots of US firms with manufacturing or other ops outside the US, and at least some oversight/managerial roles that entail travel. Supply chain roles could also fit, e.g. silicon valley semi co's with counterparts overseas.

Banking - maybe at a senior level, if for some reason you live in the US and have a client base in Asia or v.v.

Transportation/logistics - obvious, but if you want to be a flight attendant or work in shipping...

 

My father was a project engineer for United Technologies and traveled 60% of the year for 2 week intervals to places in Asia, Europe, South America. Now he works in consulting that mainly has engineer consultants at a senior level and travels less but was in Dubai 5 weeks ago for 2 weeks.

He traveled to other facilities for either his company or other companies that made parts for whatever they were working on at the time.

Frank Sinatra - "Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy."
 

Being a Partner at a global IT consulting firm like Accenture or IBM involves a ton of travel between US and Asia. However, I would caution that making frequent trips of >8,000 miles will get very, very tiring very, very quickly. That's why there are few positions that would involve "frequent" (I guess it really depends on your definition of frequent) travel between the US and Asia. Wishing yourself into a role where you're taken regular (I'm thinking twice a month) 16 hour flights each way is going to drive you crazy.

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DaisukiDaYo:

Hi all,

Wanted to see if anyone had any idea of the kind of jobs that would fall in this category. So basically, either lots of travel or travel to and from the U.S. and Asia.

Only thing that comes to mind for me is consulting.

Also, any insight into headhunters/firms that specialize in this would be great!

As always, SBs for great responses.

For recruiters, try Selby Jennings, Executive Access, Michael Page HK, Talent2, Pure Search

 

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