Part 1 of 2 pieces How much do you really know about global mobility? How does a company decide to send an employee to work in another country? How does one coordinate the lifecycle of an international assignment? In an age of increasing global mobility with...
Who actually recommends the company they work for to a friend? It turns out it’s common in the San Francisco Bay Area. In Northern California, it’s normal for friends to recommend their friends to their employers. This is because they also get an incentive or...
If the San Francisco Bay Area were a country, it would be the 19th largest economy in the world, according to a new report. This is not surprising, considering it is home to the biggest tech giants in the world -- Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google...
A wise man once said, “When you cannot measure, you cannot know.” To which highly respected management leader Peter Drucker expands on, saying, “What you cannot measure, you cannot manage.” Metrics and the tools to accurately determine the effectiveness of programs and the standard of...
Do single women avoid career-enhancing actions because these actions signal undesirable traits, like ambition, to the marriage market? This was a question in a Harvard study of more than 2,200 Harvard Business School students called “Acting Wife’: Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments.” The study’s...
With the low unemployment rate currently now at 3.7%, the lowest it has been in 49 years, recruiters now face the fact that it’s going to be harder to fill up some key positions. What else is there to do but choose those out of...
In Bladerunner 2049, Ryan Gosling’s character comes home to find Joi preparing his dinner. She flickers like a hologram but her voice is clear, like the voice assistants we’re already used to now, in 2018. The tone in Joi’s voice is something close to our...
The year 2020 is roughly two years away, but global mobility managers should start planning for it this early. Why? While the recruitment and hiring of foreign nationals increased by 25 percent in the last ten years, they will soar by 50 percent from this...
There was a time when culture-fit was as simple as knowing if someone fits in a specific corporate culture. Now they’re even saying that there’s a difference between corporate culture-fit and organizational culture-fit. While traditional homegrown recruiters have to consider the first aspect of this employee...
What company, regardless of size or scale, does not want the global marketplace? America has always thrived for its inclusivity and diversity. As the World Economic Forum points out, inclusivity affects positive changes for companies. Revenues can increase. Market share can expand. The figures in...