All the jargons in the world can have you reeling in confusion. But one can’t deny how jargon helps us to structure our thoughts, especially when it helps us think outside the box, so to speak. They do serve a purpose. They can be effective...
If your job can be easily explained, it can be automated. That’s Anders Sandberg of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute talking about artificial intelligence, which is accelerating the demise of some skills. The quote comes from the New Yorker piece, “Are Robots Competing for Your Job,” which...
In a report by Silicon Valley Business Journal, it seems top tech companies have been successful at getting visa applications -- including the popular H-1B work visa program for specialty occupations -- approved. For global mobility managers, that’s a piece of good news, considering the...
Digging deep into your candidate’s background is one smart way to hire the global talent you need, which is getting tougher to do given the current U.S. administration’s changing policies on immigration and recruitment of foreign nationals. This advice comes from TalentCulture which also points...
A competitive compensation package with all the lucrative perks will always be attractive to any topnotch talent you as a global mobility manager would want to recruit. But -- and this goes against decades of expatriate employment practices -- that is not all that the...
Global mobility managers usually hire assignees for the long-term, a contract lasting at least a couple of years which will have the foreign national work like an employee of the organization in practically all aspects. But, according to Human Resources Online, one emerging trend in...
What’s the best way for global mobility managers to understand the mind of a job seeker if not to put themselves in their shoes?! This way, one can figure out what makes them accept or reject an offer, right? That’s easier said than done, of...
Part 1 of 2 Global mobility always buzzes with new concepts and obscure acronyms that have become understandably confusing to some recruiters and companies, especially to people who may be just getting to know this industry, an effect of globalization that corporate housing providers like California...
Lateral move of any kind has always been perceived as an indirect demotion. A study by Mercer even indicates that 14 percent of the employees surveyed regard lateral transfers as an impediment to or a slowdown of one’s career. Nowadays, this process of shifting an employee...
Corporate travel has never been more emboldened as it is now by today’s consumer travel tools and technologies. More people are taking their commercial ambitions on a global scale, even challenging mindsets about how their wandering ways are tied to the combo of work and...