How To Find a Job in Samoa as a Foreigner

Virgin Cove, Samoa

Virgin Cove, Samoa (source: Wikimedia Commons)

Samoa is a country located in the South Pacific. The official languages are Samoan and English.

If you want to work in Samoa, you will need to know that jobs are hard to come by (aren’t they hard to come by pretty much anywhere though!). Nevertheless, don’t give up hope. While job opportunities will be few and far between, you might as well try because you can’t score if you don’t shoot.

Without further ado, below is a selection of resources for searching for employment opportunities in Samoa as a foreigner.

General Job Search Engines and Classifieds

With the sites below, you can expect to get a 0.5 to 1.0% response rate (people who will respond back to you to whom you sent your application/CV.) Nevertheless, I encourage you to give these sites a try as you never know what you will come up with or what connections you can make from a simple e-mail or application.

  • South Pacific Employment: South Pacific Employment is a good portal for job opportunities in this part of the world. Do a search to see if any Samoan opportunities come up.
  • MyPerfectResume: MyPerfectResume has a bunch of links to various international job search portals.

Teaching English

Teaching English might be a possibility (if you are a native English speaker that is). All of the sites below are pretty similar and have a massive amount of teaching English job options around the world. Browse through each of the sites for any Samoan job opportunities (there won’t be many, if at all, but it is still worth a check). Also, be sure to check out this cool table from the International TEFL academy that shows how much money teachers can expect to make in various countries around the world.

  • ESL Employment: Not the most beautiful interface, but who needs a pretty website when you have so many English teaching job options to choose from.
  • Total ESL: Also an overly busy interface but a wealth of job postings for teaching jobs abroad.
  • ESL Cafe: Dave does a great job in compiling some of the best job openings from around the world.
  • Tesall: Big teaching jobs aggregator.

Overseas and Expat Job Portals

  • Go Abroad: I’ve always been a fan of GoAbroad. In fact, on the visa information portion of my website, you will find where I have linked to their global embassies directory. They have a good job portal too.
  • Linkedin: Last but not least, this huge professional social network is a resource for building contacts in the field and location of your interest.

There you have it. The best places to find jobs in Samoa as a foreigner. For information on visas for Samoa, be sure to check out my Samoa visa page.

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