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 [...]

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 [...]

HR strategies for success in international assignments

A mobile workforce is fundamental to implementing global strategies. Indeed, the question many directors are now asking themselves is how to respond to what the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling the second phase of globalisation – the ‘age of mobility’.
Ruth Holmes looks at some solutions.

Read this article in full in the Winter 2007/8 [...]