· Sign a contract with your employer in advance in two copies, one of which stays with you.

· Do not sign a contract which seems to you unclear, invalid, with unfilled conditions of work or with such that you do not like. You can consult the contract with a lawyer or at least with a friend.

· Before setting off, leave to your family/relatives/friends a copy of your passport, a copy of your contract, the address and telephone of your employer, if you know in advance – the address and telephone of the place you will stay at; the names and the telephones of the people you will travel with.

· If you go to study or work through an intermediary agency, check if it is legitimate.

· Collect all your necessary documents for your journey. If someone is making you a favor for the issue of your documents, check if the documents are in order.

· Before leaving, agree with your relatives on an alarm signal in case it is difficult to make a phone call or your conversation is tapped (for ex. A short phrase – “here it’s often shiny” which is to signal to your relatives that you are in danger)

· If you go abroad, get in contact with the embassy of the country you are going to check if you need some documents and if yes what they are – to reside, work, study in this country.

· Make inquiries at the embassy of the respective country about the employer you are going to.

· If you leave for another country, make a LIST of the telephone and address of the Bulgarian Embassy in the country you are going to; the telephone and address of organizations providing assistance to people in danger in the respective country; the telephone and address of friends or acquaintances in the country you are going to (if you have such).