Well, I'm in a similar predicament. My end goal is to pretty much end up working for Air Canada, as they do do international stuff, and French isn't mandatory. As far as flying in different countries go, you need to meet their standards (which is silly, because what's the point of the country being a member of ICAO if other ICAO members don't recognize the license). That means a new medical (the difference here between Canada and the US is fairly minimal, but I've heard day-long horror story events for the JAA medical) Different countries do medicals differently I've even heard of psych evals being done. As for licenses, like I said, not every license is recognized, and not all are clean conversions. One of my coworkers had a student from Columbia (had to leave the country for various reasons, and decided Canada was a safe bet). Anyhow, this student was a pilot in Columbia. He had his ATPL, as well as over 4000 hours multi-IFR on aircraft like the 737, and the A320. When he tried to convert his license to a Canadian one, Transport Canada determined that they could only recognize him as a Private Pilot. Essentially, in the conversion, he would have to re-do his Commercial training, his Multi, his Multi-IFR, heck, he didn't even get a night rating out of this :/ Now, of course, the multi and multi IFR stages didn't take very long, my buddy pretty much recommended him after a few flights of each, but still, not cool. A more related story, I work with another guy originally from Iran. He got his Commercial license in the US, decided to come over here to Canada, and was only able to transfer over his PPL. However, not all conversions are that difficult. Depending on the country, and what they recognize, it could be as simple as writing an/the exam(s) and/or doing a flight test. I know that a lot of foreign students learn in the US, obtaining both FAA and JAA licenses, it may be beneficial to you to travel to one of these schools, and do a little upgrading to a JAA license. Some countries (like some in Africa and Asia), don't even require a conversion. I know a guy who went to Africa to fly, hated every minute of it, and came back, and I know two other guys who flew for Susi Air in Indonesia, one of them currently their. Both love(d) it.
So I suppose, you should look in to obtaining the license of the country or region you would like to work (or at least see what needs to be done for the conversion), look into medicals, and learning another language is always a vast asset.
As far as websites listing jobs, I'm sure every country has a good website to use, but this is the only one I know of with various-sized airlines and operations across the globe
http://www.pilotcareercentre.com/

SaultFresh wrote on Sep 25^th, 2012 at 9:31pm:


Your are in principle right, but the problem with ICAO and JAR is that the written in the small print of both ICAO and JAR is that the relevant counties national authority has the last say on any regulation it wants. Think of ICAO and  JAR as mandatory recommendations........

Matt

tcco:
Not to say nobody here knows what they're talking about, but you should definitely put out some feelers on some actual career pilot forums... you're bound to find answers to all your questions there. You might even make some useful contacts.

Don't rule out corporate flying, either... I'm not sure, but it may be easier for a green ATP to do some overseas flying sooner in that world than the airline world. And sometimes the pay is a lot better.

I'm starting to become more interested in flying corporate the only reason I've put airliners first priority is because I'm not sure how much flying corporate does...

Where as at an airline they have a minimum guarantee of hours per month. Even though the pay is like $16 an hour 

gtirob01 wrote on Oct 8^th, 2012 at 5:42pm:

I know the demand for FedEx and UPS are really high in the US because I'm pretty sure they get a boat load of money. Would love to have the life your buddy has but probably won't be seeing that anytime soon.  Top ramen and 2 bedroom crashpad apartment with 10 pilots in it is probably my upcoming future.