How to search for electrical engineering job?

I've got a friend in Russia. He is an electrical engineer, based on
what I understand. What would be the best way for him to find a job
abroad?

Since, I don't specialize in electrical engineering I even don't know
how valuable his skills are on today's market.

I used his terminology. It'd be good if you correct his terms, so I
can do some research using the right terminology.

Specialization: "Electric Drive and Industrial Automation".

He knows about electrical machinery, automatic control theory, control
systems, power electronics, industrial automation. In brief it is
what engineers need to design, create electric drive for automation of
industrial equipment or technological process.

Communication protocol realization is what he is doing today. Next I
will build program module for equipment automation with several
drives.

Keywords can be: electrical drive, electromechanical systems, control
systems, communication protocols, automation systems and robotics.

His currently working with electrical drive, which is being
manufactured in Russia. He develops new features for this equipment.

I know that he is doing embedded programming. He writes software at
the assembly or C level to control electrical drives. He programmed a
device with modbus protocol:

MBAXP Modbus RTU/ASCII ActiveX Control

 

What does it mean "go south"?

 

ausgespielt, beaten, cooked, dead, defeated, done in, doomed, dying,
eighty-sixed, exhausted, finished, had it, kaput, packed-up, ruined, shot,
sunk, tired, washed-up

 

Future tense of "went west". ;-)