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Brazil has well developed agricultural, mining, manufacturing, and service sectors; its economy outweighs that of all other South American countries.
Brazil has one of the most advanced industrial sectors in South America accounting for one-third of GDP.
Brazil has a diverse and sophisticated service industry as well.
Maximum working hours: the maximum working week in Brazil is 44 hours, not exceeding eight hours per day.
Incentives: most employers offer incentives, including transportation and meal subsidies.
Job seekers can meet with employers in person at job fairs and career events.
In the education and work experience sections you should ensure that you include institution, company information, dates you studied, worked and details of courses, responsibilities.
Before you apply for a work permit you will need to find a job in Brazil.
There are no centralised support services for students and graduates in Brazil.
Public employment services
There is no specific public employment service in Brazil, although in Bahia they have Service de Atendimento ao Cidad Citizens Advice Centres which, amongst its many services, offers help with finding jobs.
Visit their website for full details of what services are available.

There are numerous organisations offering this kind of work travel experience.
Camp Counselors CC USA run a work experience scheme in Brazil, which involves living with a Brazilian host family whilst working in a job of your choice in office work, sports, leisure, hotel, tourism, teaching assistant or ecological work for two to three months. Fee is £1099.

There are three types of institutions of higher education in Brazil:
universidades universities, offering a multitude of degree programmes.
Postgraduate programmes in Brazil lead to the awards of the Mestrado Masters and Doutorado Doctorate, PhD.
In 2003 there were 72, 024 students enrolled on Masters programmes and 40,213 studied at PhD level Source: Ministry of Science and Technology in Brazil.
For details of full university websites visit Universities Worldwide or CRUB: Conselho de retoires das universidades Brasileiras - Brazilian Universities, which contains comprehensive information about each institution independently and the availability of postgraduate courses.
There are some UK universities that have strong links with Brazilian universities offering exchange schemes as part of their postgraduate studies programme.
Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, King's College London Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American studies SPLAS, University of Southampton.
There are several types of visa to enter Brazil, including:
The award contributes to the cost of a working, research visit to Brazil of two-three months.

For a detailed list of useful links relating to courses, research funding and institutions in Brazil, see the Centre for Brazilian Studies at the University of Oxford. (Permalink)