Overseas Work History

Hi. I have been working overseas for about 4 years, but I am homesick and am coming back. I am imagining how this might fly with trucking companies. I have contracts, letters of service from the organizations and passport stamps as proof, but there is a 12 hour time difference and I doubt the personnel office is going to work late to call my references. These people speak English, but they will probably answer the phone in a foreign language.

Working a broad you still have to file tax I believe weather in out country or theirs. There are records of tax payment and it shows you were working. The the things you listed will help prove you were working during that 4 years. Does not really matter what you can get a hold of as long as it proves your work history for the last 10 years. Yes in trucking you have to show the last ten years of work history.

Hey there Tim, I know just how you feel..been working outside the CONUS for over 20 years..and GuyJax is right..you DO have to file tax information and that is Your BEST bet as far as work history...You don't have to pay income tax if your income is under $95,000 USD, but you still have to file an exemption, that is what I had to do. Most companies will recognize this as proof of employment history..another thing you might want to think about and I didn't until recently is whether or not you have a LinkedIn account. Didn't really give it much thought until I got a notification that a recruiter from one of the companies that I applied to had viewed my profile. I got a pre-hire from that company shortly afterwards. Coincidence? Maybe, but it sure didn't hurt that my entire work history for the past 20 years was listed in public for them to see and it also probably didn't hurt that I had endorsements and recommendations from previous employers and supervisors as well as my education history.

Thanks for the info, guys! I do have tax returns, so I should be set. That idea about linked in is a good one also. Looking forward to eating a decent steak. Can't find one here.

Thanks for the info, guys! I do have tax returns, so I should be set. That idea about linked in is a good one also. Looking forward to eating a decent steak. Can't find one here.

Dang, dude..you must be in the back end a$$ of the world if you can't get a good steak where you're at...

LOL, it's not that bad. Southeast Asia. They don't have that many cows and they slice the beef too thin. Regardless, be glad to get home to Georgia soon.