21 Jul Companies Need Talents Who Thrive in Uncertain Times

Posted at 17:52h in Corporate Culture & Training, Global Mobility, Northern California, Recruitment by Ray [social_share]

How do you survive as a company---let alone succeed and thrive---despite the uncertainty facing you now? That is the question that is haunting the minds of many CEOs and business owners right now, as the coronavirus pandemic disrupted almost every aspect of our society and...

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03 Jul Global Mobility: How to Manage Remote Assignees in Month 5 of Pandemic

Posted at 13:03h in Corporate Culture & Training, Corporate Housing, Recruitment, Return to Work, Work from Home, Work Life by Ray [social_share]

Our lives have changed dramatically these past months. One minute, it’s alright to go out; next thing you know, we’re back to the trenches we call our homes. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, it’s all for the better. However, global mobility professionals need...

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05 Jun The Tax Compliances Challenge for Employees Who are Moving and Not Moving

Posted at 23:46h in Corporate Culture & Training, Global Mobility, Recruitment, Taxation by Ray [social_share]

Global organizations are at a crossroads these days. Some of their employees can’t wait to go to work, others are content to stay at home or work remotely. They have adjusted well to this new normal by having their staff work online or in fewer...

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03 Jun Why Global Mobility, Recruiting Can’t Afford to Stand Still

Posted at 00:53h in Business Travel, Corporate Culture & Training, Expat, Global Mobility, Immigration, Job Prospects, Recruitment, Relocating by Ray [social_share]

Part 1 of 2 Imagine a new assignee, Mohit, moved to northern California and before he could even unpack, COVID-19 arrived to spoil his move. Worse, he signed a multi-year lease on his rental. Even if he moved alone, his loved ones would be stressed out...

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28 Aug Foreign Talents: Are You with OK with Local-Plus Hiring? Same Salary yet Perks-Driven

Posted at 17:23h in Global Mobility, Northern California, Recruitment by Ray [social_share]

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...

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29 Mar Prepare for Upcoming Gen-Z Workforce: There Will Be More of Them Than Other Generations

Posted at 21:34h in Corporate Culture & Training, Global Mobility, Recruitment by Ray [social_share]

The millennial workforce is about to get even younger. And just when you thought you had them figured out (or still not), new studies have broken them down into two categories: the Gen-Ys born from roughly the late 1980s to the late 1990s and the...

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25 Mar How to Tell an Employer of Record From an HR and Staffing Agency

Posted at 01:46h in Corporate Culture & Training, Global Mobility, Recruitment by Ray [social_share]

Companies known as “employers of record” (EOR) started garnering attention a few years ago when corporations started to outsource human resource (HR)  work to them that was related to freelancers and project-based hires. According to CPA Practice Advisor, these EOR were given tasks to form...

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05 Feb How Global Mobility Services Can Focus on their Main Responsibilities

Posted at 22:50h in Corporate Culture & Training, Global Mobility, Recruitment by Ray [social_share]

Global mobility specialists are beginning to delegate some of their non-core functions in order to focus on their main areas of responsibility -- recruitment, talent development, and training. Administrative tasks can consume a lot of time. There is the amount of work to be done;...

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08 Jan Prepping Up for Global Realities in Mobility

Posted at 16:10h in Business Travel, Global Mobility, Housing Tips, Immigration, Recruitment by Ray [social_share]

Many world events in 2016 caught companies and their global recruiting and mobility managers by total surprise. Response time was slow and uncertain, as some took a “wait-and-see” approach while others tried to make sense of the situation in order to plan more productively for...

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04 Jan Centralization, Transparency to Define Global Mobility Industry

Posted at 20:36h in Corporate Culture & Training, Corporate Housing, Global Mobility, Recruitment, San Francisco by Ray [social_share]

  Two distinct trends will soon characterize the dynamics and decision-making in global mobility: centralization and transparency. With constant change happening in the world’s economies and political systems, coupled with the exponential development of technology, the players in the business landscape are learning how to be...

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