Foreign talents, be forewarned. When a global mobility manager or company mentions culture fit as one of its corporate policies for hiring a candidate, run -- run as far away from the hiring company. In most instances, culture fit in the global hiring community would...
What does it feel like to be an intern at 30? Journalist Elizabeth Sergen painted a vivid picture of it for Fast Company -- and even better, she said it was the best move of her career. In the gig economy where the only thing...
The traditional expatriate package is becoming more expensive for organizations to shoulder. Yet paying an assignee or an employee relocating to another country the local rates of their local counterparts might prove too much of an adjustment, and might even demoralize them. Global mobility managers...
Want to nurture your future leaders, but your company or department is short when it comes to cash and training resources? One inexpensive, efficient, and underrated way to do it is to start -- and follow through on, wait, yes -- an office reading club....
A host country’s employee or boss can be unwelcoming to foreigners but unfathomable as it may sound, your assignee, a foreign national who was once used to living within his own culture, may also have ingrained biases and prejudices against other beliefs, work practices, and...
Retirement is giving away to unretirement, as senior members in the workforce, even executives, realize they prefer to stay on in the workplace instead of just collecting their retirement pay and sailing off into the sunset. Unretirement means staying active in the workplace, either as a...
Big Data, or the tons of information that stream through a company’s servers and structures every single day, is being used by global mobility specialists and human resource professionals for the recruitment of candidates, as well as the performance tracking of employees and assignees. As explained...
San Francisco in Northern California attracts a lot more of its fair share of talents -- and a lot of them are millennials -- for a lot of obvious reasons. The chance to become among the tech giants that shape the world is one of...
If there’s one thing human resource specialists and corporate housing providers like California Corporate Housing have observed, it’s this: the prevalence of three to four generations of talents with unique skills and diverse backgrounds working shoulder-to-shoulder. This phenomenon goes beyond the avuncular executive mentoring a newbie...
Global mobility specialists find their tasks easier if the assignee he has hired is working as part of one monocultural team. For example, he brings in an Asian or European programmer to work in a retail store trying to find its digital footprint somewhere in...