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...
Northern California is one of the sunniest recruitment spots that attract local talents and skilled foreign nationals. While remaining a gateway to career advancement and a training ground for those who want to be experts in global innovation, each of the region’s many cities has...
With the rise of global mobility over the next few years, global mobility specialists and human resource professionals who deal with expatriates are beginning to consider the use of Global Mobility Management solutions (GMMs). As defined by Aragon Research, GMMs are business applications that oversee and...
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...