Expatriate Spouses – Top tips for finding a job

Satu Kreula, an executive coach working with professionals and executives with international employment, shares some ideas about how expatriate spouses and partners coming into the UK can prepare themselves for job-hunting in today’s very competitive employment market.
In the current economic climate, what is the best way to find work? Here are five things that expatriates [...]

Expatriate Health Cover / Insurance Essentials

International health-insurance is essential in the battle for hearts and minds of expatriate employees relocated overseas.
To safeguard expatriates (individuals being relocated overseas), health care is a major consideration. Many parts of the world have health care standards as good as, possibly better than the UK, but there are places, with poor standards health-wise, where one [...]

Spouses, partners and international assignments

A large-scale survey of the views of spouses and partners of international assignees has recently been conducted by Permits Foundation. It finds that a lack of spouse and partner employment opportunities adversely affects international mobility, and that a few simple improvements, including providing work permits for spouses and partners, can create a ‘triple win’ for [...]

Overcoming barriers to international relocation

Although the expatriate assignment package has been trimmed back in recent years as organisations strive to become more competitive, the contents still provide a number of benefits that aim to encourage employees and their families to relocate abroad. Sue Shortland explains.
When employees and their families are asked to relocate abroad, the prospect of living in [...]

The Rise and Rise of Female Expatriates

Women’s participation in international mobility is on the up. Today, just under 17% of expatriates are female. Sue Shortland charts their progress in the international arena, and outlines what companies might do to increase gender diversity yet further.
Back in the early 1980s, very little was written about female expatriates – because there were simply [...]

Current Recruitment Trends within the Expatriate Market

Since the beginning of the economic downturn, and most notably in the last 3 months, we have seen an increase in the number of requirements for tax focused expatriate specialists. This has been apparent across all sectors and is in line with a more general need to ensure tax efficient reward planning for domestic and [...]

Expatriate Work Life Balance

Can work-life balance initiatives provide a solution to the dilemma posed by long working hours and the pressure of a global day that stretches across time zones? Sue Shortland reports on new expatriate research.Read this article in full in the Winter 2007/8 issue. Access a digital copy.

International dual careers: latest policy and practice

Sue Shortland reports on the implications for dual-career policy and practice for internationally mobile employees in the light of the current economic picture.
As the recession bites, it would be predicted that organisations will reduce their corporate spend on supporting mobility as they are obliged to tighten their belts. It might also be predicted that the [...]

Navigating Global Mobility | HRO Today

Deploying executives on foreign assignments is an emerging HR specialty—and one that many organizations consider outsourcing.
by Mark Lawson
Global business leaders who want talent to cross borders bound only by the laws of supply and demand tend to oppose government policies that restrict immigration by wrapping foreign workers in red tape. Not surprisingly, HR professionals also [...]

Integrating Remote Teams

Philippe Nitzer, of Farnham Castle International Briefing & Conference Centre, explores the issue of how to manage remote cross-cultural teams.
Within teams, managing clashes between personalities comes with the territory. However, when it comes to channelling the energy of a remote team made up of members from different cultural backgrounds, based in different locations around the [...]