The smart efficient allocation of resources will always be on the agenda of global mobility specialists. They do a lot of traveling for recruitment, training, conferences, and other official functions, and they always have to be on call to pack up and fly (or take...
By the nature of his job, a global mobility specialist is focused on three major aspects: the global developments that affect the various economies, governments, and institutions he deals with; the flows and currents of the current workforce and the factors that change and transform...
What is the best part about living in San Mateo? If you’re primary concern is commuting, it does take about 30 minutes from any part of the Bay Area. Living next to the 92 bridge means you can avoid Bay Bridge traffic. Also, San Mateo...
It is not enough for global mobility specialists to become human resource experts, skilled diplomats, a recruitment whiz, and a walking database packed with international laws and customs. In an era that has been characterized as volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous, they must learn agility...
Google is set to make job searches easier. We all know how the seemingly all-encompassing search engines can look for and locate research topics, breaking news items, venue locations and their addresses, images, videos, and entire map sections -- so why not jobs but in...
How much does a domestic relocation package cost today? The figures cited by The HR Capitalist a few years ago placed it at about $10,000 to $20,000. But it is reasonable to assume that the prices have gone up since then. With costs a constant...
Because global mobility specialists spend a lot of time networking with their partners and dealing with their assignees, a lot of their colleagues -- and perhaps even their bosses -- assume that their job is mostly a social one. While that is often true, there is...
The term “world-class” has been used frequently to the point of user exhaustion, but it still remains the gold standard for global mobility specialists who are always actively recruiting the best candidates from all over the world. “World-class” means an individual, organization, product and/or service possesses...
There is a world of a difference between being a “specialist” and being an “expert.” The functions and strengths of these two talents may sound identical; both after all have made a name and a career in handling niche, complex jobs that require a depth...
A host country’s employee or boss can be unwelcoming to foreigners but unfathomable as it may sound, your assignee, a foreign national who was once used to living within his own culture, may also have ingrained biases and prejudices against other beliefs, work practices, and...