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 [...]

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 [...]

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 international assignments, 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 too few [...]

International Assignments – dual careers 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 [...]