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 | Story blogs
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 | Story blogs
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...
by Wendela Elsen | Dec 11, 2020 | Story blogs
I had landed on my feet. After about seven months in the local Taipei office of one of the Big Four accounting firms, working in a complete Taiwanese environment without speaking the language, I had moved on to the Asia Pacific Regional office in the role of Regional...
by Wendela Elsen | Dec 8, 2020 | Content blogs
Living your values is the greatest success in life for each individual. Values are the foundation of your purpose in life and living according to your values brings fulfilment. Values are very personal; for one they may be around money and career, for another around...
by Wendela Elsen | Dec 8, 2020 | Content blogs
When clients tell me that they are not happy with their current lives, I generally don’t focus on that word ‘happy’; I talk about fulfilment. But what exactly is fulfilment and why do I prefer using that word over happiness? These days there is a particular focus on...
by Wendela Elsen | Dec 8, 2020 | Story blogs
After about six months in my new job in Taipei it was Chinese New Year, in February. This meant that the office would close for a whole week! I was hired locally and that meant that I had no right to annual leave in the first year. As a European, I found that...
by Wendela Elsen | Dec 8, 2020 | Story blogs
I had followed my boyfriend to Taipei where he was sent on an assignment by his company and I was locally hired by one of the Big Four accounting firms as an executive search professional. My job was to penetrate the Western business community to find new clients for...
by Wendela Elsen | Dec 8, 2020 | Story blogs
Through contacts and a lot of luck I had landed this great job in Taipei. My boyfriend had been sent there by his company and I managed to get employed by one of the Big Four accounting firms as a recruiter. They had wanted to hire a foreigner to penetrate the Western...
by Wendela Elsen | Dec 8, 2020 | Story blogs
I had survived my first day of our look-see visit in Taipei. It was an amazing experience to wander the streets and take in all these new impressions. It was so different from back home in the Netherlands, nothing I had ever experienced before. It even smelt...
