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...
How much has mobility become the critical lever for mobility growth? It turns out mobility has shown significant organizational growth (53 percent), cost management (19 percent) and talent development (13 percent). In the latest report by Sirva’s annual report, they are ranked as the top...
Global mobility managers wear many hats when recruiting talents. There are various administration tasks they must do, because no global mobility professional can do it alone. They have partners. They are called MVPs or Most Valuable Partners (MVPs) in the global mobility world. MVPs are those...
One of our blogs discussed why global mobility managers, like human resource managers, should think like marketers. Employer branding is a powerful tool in their arsenal that can entice even hard-to-woo candidates to sign up, or at least consider what they have to offer. The...
The way recruiters think global mobility as a small part of its hiring process is different from the way companies perceive it, but there's one thing they agree on: Whether a company has to move operations to get the right talents or have the talents relocate...
Many companies may perceive a mobility manager’s job to be limited to recruitment, but this profession goes beyond that. This job also covers HR management, tax, employment law, expatriate remuneration, vendor management, project management, as well as interpersonal and intercultural skills. It is important to note...
With the talent competition heating up all over the world, global mobility managers have to step up in their game. One weapon that they do have in their arsenal is Employer Branding, and with it, Employee Value Proposition (EVP). They are jargon that simply means...
With technology changing faster than many of us can adapt to it, the capability to move with the new changes happening in business, the workforce, the global market, and government regulations is a factor for survival. Agility will become the new normal, and is fast...
It’s that time of the year and the assignees under your charge are both sighing and steeling themselves as they make their New Year’s Resolutions. All of us have been there ourselves, and we all know full well the disappointment of breaking a sincerely made...