There are two types of millennials in Silicon Valley. Those who come here for work as professionals and those who are in here in the summertime -- the interns. If you can’t place what age groups millennials are, they are in the 22- to 36-age...
In an increasingly competitive business landscape, oftentimes opportunity and compensation packages are the deciding factors that make one assignee accept a job offer and turn down others. Yet perks and pay are not the only ones that sweetened that deal and persuaded them to sign...
In an age that is perpetually disrupted by technology, lifelong learning has become a must and a way of life, and no longer an option. It’s not just the course or the subject matter that is changing, but the platforms and methods that bring education...
In an era that has been described as Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous, assignees and the global mobility managers guiding them have to be more agile than most. This observation can come as a mild shock to those concerned, because assignees are expected to be...
It is a situation that has led many global mobility managers scratching their heads. They have done everything by the book and yet their assignee still seems to be faltering. They had invested in these foreign hires’ training, time in family counseling, and the learning...
This big C is like cancer. It’s definitely cancer to the tech world, but they’re cybersecurity threats that have morphed into something far more lethal. They hijack computers and steal important data in exchange for money or payment in the form of bitcoins. The cancer has...
Leisure travel with all-expenses paid for. The latest Tesla just out of the assembly line. Free tickets to the movies and concerts of popular singers. Not so fast. Those are perks that go to the top honchos. They may be enviable perks and certainly something...
Expatriate long-term assignments may be going out of style with permanent transfers now on top of minds of business owners and global mobility managers alike. Why? Some companies in the San Francisco Bay Area find that -- in the long run -- a permanent transfer would...
STEM or the science, technology, engineering, and math is where it’s at. Any company that wants to grow spectacularly and ride the crest of business disruption will always want to fill their ranks with experts in these fields. Or at the very least, the STEM field...
There are many facets to training an assignees or expatriate. They involve cross-cultural social training, cross-cultural business training, security, remote, and repatriation, according to AZCentral. Training starts as soon as they sign the dotted line, and continues until their last day at work. Training should...