Five requirements for finding employment as an expat partner
When your partner is offered a career enhancing assignment overseas, you have to decide what you want to do with your career. Some lucky accompanying partners get the opportunity to either join the overseas branch or subsidiary of their current employer or continue...
Wanting to work as an expat partner? Do you really want to?
When your partner is offered a career enhancing opportunity abroad and you decide together to take the step, the family will enter a whole new phase in family life. If you are happy to leave your job behind and look forward to spending more time with the family and...
Giving up your job to become an expat partner – how will that impact you?
Not everyone outside the expat community responds positively when you talk about being an expat. Sometimes judgement is apparent; you are seen as a spoiled, stay-at-home expat partner with no material needs or wants, spending lazy afternoons at the pool-side sipping...
Reflections of a TCK mum – will I ever know if I have done the right thing?
I am far from being a Third Culture Kid. I was born and raised in the same town in the Netherlands, in the same house even. I left that house when I was 18 and my Dutch parents continued living there for another 25 years. When I go back to my hometown, I feel that I...
11. Reflecting on six years living and working in Taiwan
I always think of my time in Taiwan with a smile on my face. It was our first overseas posting and definitely a very good one. I knew very little about Taiwan before we went. It turned out I wasn’t the only one. Many conversations with friends and acquaintances went...
10. I made a quick sidestep to land the next perfect job
My son was one year old and I had just left my job, that required me to travel frequently, for a role in a local Taiwanese HR consulting firm. I was hired as the only non-Taiwanese in an office of about 80 staff and my job was to penetrate the foreign business...
International Women’s Day 2021 #ChooseToChallenge
I am on a mission and have been for most of my working life
My life’s mission is to take away barriers and offer support so that women can develop themselves, follow their ambitions and create the lives for themselves that they aspire to. I am currently working with expat partners, usually women, who give up their jobs to...