Archive for the 'Relocations' Category

When meeting locals or expatriates in Singapore you are most likely to ask:  How long have you been in Singapore?  What brought you here? Of course, you hear a lot of answers like, “I was sent by my company.”  However, the answers are becoming more varied since Asia, for the past several years, is the…    Continue reading

Is there a more compelling place to advance your career than China? Paradoxically, if you’re from China, the answer is yes, but for nearly everyone else China is one of the best places to cut your teeth. India, Brazil and Eastern Europe are among the destinations that would also impress a global-minded recruiter or hiring…    Continue reading

I don’t consider myself a nomadic professional, but I have lived, worked and/or studied in Cairo, Berlin, Bangkok, and Seoul – where I am now. In a matter of weeks I will move to Singapore, where I am exploring my next career opportunity. Professionally, my background is in high technology having been mentored in Silicon…    Continue reading

Sometimes, your career can go global quite by accident. And how you deal with it can make a huge difference in the outcome. About two years ago, I was on a ski vacation with my family when my cell phone rang on the chair lift. It was my boss, telling me that he really needed…    Continue reading

Your dream to live abroad is about to come true. You have checked immigration laws, obtained permits, estimated the cost of living and developed a plan to export your life and work abroad. But there are aspects of a global relocation that you might have overlooked. So before you sublet your place, loan out your…    Continue reading

Patrik Runald and his wife Susanne sold their things and left Sweden to build a global career. He and his wife, key employees of a Finnish security software firm, moved to London three years ago, resettled in Singapore and then tried Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. When the Runald’s pine for Sweden they go to the nearest Ikea…    Continue reading

Is there a more compelling place to advance your career than China? Paradoxically, if you’re from China, the answer is yes, but for nearly everyone else China is one of the best places to cut your teeth. India, Brazil and Eastern Europe are among the destinations that would also impress a global-minded recruiter or hiring…    Continue reading

Ten years ago, Joy J. Bellefontaine was fresh out of university, looking for adventure and hoping to ease the burden of student loans. Today, the 35-year-old Canadian is an IT project manager for DHL in Singapore. Spending her entire professional career abroad, Joy has worked as an embalmer in Japan, earned an MBA in Germany and…    Continue reading

We think about the jobs. We think about the weather, possibly the schools, and the culture. But how many of us stop to consider infrastructure in choosing where to work? In the current BusinessWeek, my former colleague Steve Hamm reports on how India’s decaying infrastructure undermines the country’s otherwise stellar economic growth. Hamm says India’s…    Continue reading

William Herbert aspired to a global life earlier than most of us elect to tackle a second language. From high school on, Herbert, who grew up in Seattle, American Samoa and Guam, planned to speak and study Japanese and eventually move to Japan. Herbert, a trailblazing lawyer with expertise in global trade, realized his expatriate…    Continue reading