Overseas Experience (OE) is a New Zealand term for an extended overseas working period or holiday. Sometimes referred to as "The big OE" in reference to the extended duration of the travel - typically at least one year, and often extended far longer. It is however generally expected that the person returns after a few years with work and life experience and wider outlook. This is considered important to career development, especially among professionals.
From the 1950s, OEs were often centred on London, and were described as going home, a working holiday, or an overseas trip until the term OE was popularised by New Zealand cartoonist and columnist Tom Scott in the mid 1970s.[1][2][3]
^...was coined by the father of Massey University lecturer John Muirhead, who used it in the 1960s. Writer Tom Scott heard it when he was a student as Massey, and later used the term freely in his "Listener" column, and it rapidly became part of the language., Max Cryer, "The Godzone Dictionary: Of Favourite New Zealand Words and Phrases"
^"There and back again: The big OE", Shane Gilchrist, 9 Mar 2014, ODT
^"Unpacking essence of the Kiwi 'Overseas Experience'" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on April 11, 2008. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
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