This Week’s Feature
Workforce Reentry After a Break (Even a Lengthy One)
Résumé writing. For some, those two words bring anxiety, dread, and procrastination. For me, they represent reinvention, opportunity, and moving forward. After a 16-year break from the traditional workforce, I now create customized marketing materials…
Employee Relocation
Enhance Your Career During Your International Assignment
Most international assignments typically last 2-3 years. If your spouse or partner is the one who has been assigned, you may be considering your options for the next few years. Now may be the right…
Employee Relocation
How Children Learn a Second Language
It was once thought that teaching a young child a second language created language confusion or intellectual disability. Linguistic researchers at Cornell University discovered just the opposite – teaching a young child how to speak…
Employee Relocation
How Important is French in Montreal?
Relocating to Canada for your job? Concerned about language barriers? Here’s some advice to help you make a relocation decision. Moving for your job is a big step – but it can be a tremendous…
Employee Relocation
10 Tips for When the Global Relocation Honeymoon Phase is Over
The weeks leading up to, during and after a relocation can pass by in a blur – packing, unpacking, organising and preparing your family is often physically, mentally and emotionally draining. Often during this time,…
Employee Relocation
20 Ideas for Networking in the UAE
Networking should be an integral part of your “getting hired” strategy in the Middle East. Relationships truly do matter. Despite the explosion in online networking, traditional face-to-face meetups are still key in the UAE’s business…
Employee Relocation
30 Social Etiquette Tips for Hong Kong
Etiquette in Asian countries varies as much from country to country as it does in any other global region. A lack of knowledge about local customs and social expectations of the country you are in…
Employee Relocation
3 Things You Won’t Anticipate when Repatriating
When you relocate abroad, you anticipate that adjusting to the new country will bring both joys and challenges. You likely spend a lot of time learning about the culture, the language, and the locals. You…
Employee Relocation
4 Ways to Prepare Everyone in Your Family for Your Global Relocation
As you embark on your global relocation, there are so many variables in the equation. It may surprise you how long it takes to settle in, even if you are moving to a familiar country….
Employee Relocation
5 UAE Social Etiquette Tips
Before becoming too concerned with UAE social etiquette within the Muslim culture, let’s develop a bit of perspective. Particularly in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, the Emirati population makes up about 20% of the population. An…