Turkey is a Eurasian country. It shares borders with Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Iraq and Syria. The official language is Turkish.
Below is a selection of resources for searching for employment opportunities as a foreigner in Turkey.
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.
- Yenibiris: Lots of good quality, professional jobs. This is where I would start my Turkish job search.
- Jobs in Istanbul: If you are looking for a job site for Istanbul, this one is for you.
- Glassdoor: Glassdoor has a slew of opportunities in Istanbul.
- Kariyer: One of the top job search websites in Turkey. I don’t like all the moving banner ads though…kinda distracting.
- Iskur: The Turkish employment agency.
- Career Jet: I’m sure you’ve heard of Career Jet. They have job search options for Turkey.
- Indeed: The Turkish version of the big U.S. job search site Indeed.com.
- Craigslist: Craigslist is the most well known classifieds site on the web. They have a Turkish page.
- Secret CV: This site has the best name of any job site I’ve ever seen. The job listings are just as cool as the name of the site.
- 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.
Teaching English
Teaching English might be an option (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. Browse through each of the sites for any English job opportunities in Turkey. 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.