“What is the right age to recruit someone or send them for an international assignment?” If you ask that question in the United States, you’ll get into heaps of trouble. For global mobility managers, that’s the question they have been asking themselves. Age, when it...
Suspend for a second whatever reservations you have about artificial intelligence, and the supposed threat it holds over your (and your colleagues’) jobs. Recent tech developments show that it can indeed be a vital tool in your daily task of managing the global business landscape...
Finding and hiring a qualified assignee should be par for the course for an experienced global mobility manager. Prepping and sending them for their next dynamic assignment, after the first one has run its course, is an ongoing goal to aspire for. Sending an assignee back...
On average, an expatriate employee or assignee earns $99,903 a year which, depending on the region of employment, can come with some other perks like corporate housing with the best amenities as well as the heady promise of an Ivy-League-like education for their children. Three...
That San Francisco, especially the tech companies in Silicon Valley, has a cultural perpetually open-door policy to qualified immigrants is no secret. A vast number of its employees are either foreign-born, children of first-generation immigrants who did grow up in the United States, or graduates from...
The San Jose, California metro recorded the largest share (71%) of foreign graduates working in the area under the Optional Practical Training program (OPT) who graduated from other metros, according to a Pew Research Center analysis. Two other California metro areas followed: San Jose (44,500),...
Globalization can generally be positive for the global mobility sector and its managers and professionals. Company expansion into new markets and the strengthening of intercultural relationships between countries and their communities serve to lower previously existing barriers while promoting trust and cooperation. Along with the mutual...
Some call it permanent transfer. Others call it expatriate localization. For decades, expatriates have been around to expand the reach of their companies. However, a “permanent transfer” is radically different from the traditional expatriate assignment which usually lasts for three to five years. Younger assignees...
Where else can global mobility managers nurture a talent pool of local and foreign potential hires than in schools? Despite the more restrictive laws posed by the current government administration for foreign students, one that would facilitate a quick transition from student status to one...
Mention the words “data breach,” ransomware,” and “cyber attack,” and the first industries that come to most people’s minds are the banking/finance, tech, ecommerce, and retail industries. Real estate and property development rarely come a close second or third. Perhaps it’s because many still associate...