It’s high time you start thinking of yourself as a global mobility leader, and not just a global mobility specialist or manager. In case you haven’t noticed, your executives are relying on you to help them out with their decision-making, and not just when it...
It’s the one thing that you may not have seen coming, but in retrospect, should have kept in mind. Unlike most homegrown members of the workforce, assignees or foreign nationals who come to work in the United States do feel and show a deep loyalty...
In the 2017 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland early this year, this statement was burnished everywhere: “We live in a fast-paced and interconnected world where breakthrough technologies, demographic shifts and political transformations have far-reaching societal and economic consequences. More than ever, leaders need to...
The warning signs may not be noticeable at first. After all, as a global mobility manager, you are used to seeing assignees exude an unmistakable self-confidence. They know they have to perform and perhaps outshine their colleagues, simply because they are foreigners working in a...
Global mobility specialists who are relocating assignees to either Silicon Valley and/or the San Francisco Bay Area might have to make the effort to distinguish the two. While these new workers who are foreign nationals would already have done their research after signing their contracts, chances...
After years of recruiting the cream of the crop from various countries, global mobility specialists will have acquired a thorough and working knowledge of what finally influences these gifted foreign talents to sign the dotted line. They know the kind of compensation packages that will attract...
The current administration might be on a roll to reduce the number of immigrant workers coming into the United States, but one thing it cannot stop is the rise of bilingualism, because it’s tied to a company’s goal. Businesses and their owners are grappling with...
Today’s hardworking assignee may be more of tomorrow’s minimum “six-months-in-your-office” employee---although he will be called an “international commuter” instead. That is one trend forecasted by the Accounting Global Network that will soon be part of a global movement that is seeing more and more employees...
When hiring talent, there’s a long list of qualifications that a global mobility manager relies on, aside from the job interview. If the talent meets all of them, well and good. If he turns out to be, say, a narcissist, not so good. It doesn’t...
Global mobility specialists like yourself are trained to observe what is acceptable in one culture and what is prohibited in another. Business etiquette, sign language, and gift-giving traditions fall under this category. It is important to distinguish how each culture treats these behavior patterns separately,...