by Wendela Elsen | Aug 17, 2021 | Content blogs
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...
by Wendela Elsen | Jul 1, 2021 | Content blogs
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...
by Wendela Elsen | Jun 11, 2021 | Content blogs
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...
by Wendela Elsen | May 20, 2021 | Content blogs
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...
by Wendela Elsen | Apr 2, 2021 | Taiwan stories
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...
by Wendela Elsen | Mar 18, 2021 | Taiwan stories
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...
by Wendela Elsen | Feb 27, 2021 | Content blogs
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...
by Wendela Elsen | Feb 19, 2021 | Taiwan stories
We had been in Taipei for two years and I was working as Regional HR manager for one of the Big Four professional services firms. My British boss, Jim, was unpredictable and could be hugely unpleasant but as he was traveling 95% of the time, it was bearable and I was...
by Wendela Elsen | Jan 26, 2021 | Taiwan stories
Is there ever a good time to fall pregnant when you are a career-minded woman? I had seen several of my friends, when I still lived back home in the Netherlands, become pregnant, have babies and go back to work. Their stories were not very encouraging. The struggle...
