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Why coping is not good enough and why expat partners should act now

Why coping is not good enough and why expat partners should act now

by Wendela Elsen | Oct 18, 2021 | Content blogs

I keep going on about this; if you are an expat partner and you feel professionally unfulfilled because you had to leave your job behind and are currently not working in your host country, please, please, please do something now. You can push your feelings and...
Five requirements for finding employment as an expat partner

Five requirements for finding employment as an expat partner

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...
Wanting to work as an expat partner? Do you really want to?

Wanting to work as an expat partner? Do you really want to?

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...
Giving up your job to become an expat partner – how will that impact you?

Giving up your job to become an expat partner – how will that impact you?

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...
Reflections of a TCK mum – will I ever know if I have done the right thing?

Reflections of a TCK mum – will I ever know if I have done the right thing?

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...
I am on a mission and have been for most of my working life

I am on a mission and have been for most of my working life

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...
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