Relaunching Your Career After a Career Break
Re -entering the job market after a professional break due to parental leave, burn-out, returning to your ‘home country’ or relocating abroad can be rather overwhelming, as plenty of questions start popping up in your head, combined with a lack of self-confidence, and...
My 5 Steps For Managing Fear And Anxiety
I am happy to share the unique perspective that Rawia Liverpool gave to COVID, using it as an acronym. Instead of only thinking of the devastation the virus has brought us, it is also important to recognise how it may have helped us grow and learn. Are you feeling...
Where Do You Stand With Your Career Spring Clean?
I don’t know about you, but the Spring season is the perfect time to tidy things up. It energises me. Is that the case for you? Home Spring Clean I get rid of things I don’t use any more and give it to people. I keep what I like and what remains meaningful to me. I...
What’s The Right Move When You Relocate Abroad?
Expat partners must be realistic about looking to enter the local job market on arrival in a new country. Even when there are opportunities, one expert advises taking a patient approach.
Personal Branding In The Workplace
Personal branding...it sounds like something that the PR professionals of celebrities and politicians have to deal with. I have to admit when I first heard about the concept myself, I didn’t really see it as a concept even vaguely applicable to me. Well, this was...
Live Your Best Life
Live Your Best Life: How understanding your values can be your personal compass Picture this scene: It is seven o’clock in the evening and your children’s homework has been completed. Your children have all been bathed and the concerns of the office have been...
Developing A Flexible Career
When I think about the word flexible, I immediately think of yogis, rubber bands and my career. Traditionally, we viewed a career as linear. This, however, has changed as most of us will enjoy two or more career paths in our lifetime. The ‘zigzag career’ is becoming a...
Marie’s Expat Journey
Marie’s Expat Journey: How my life-on-the-move has helped me reinvent myself My life as an “expat wife” started more than 20 years ago. Newly wed, we left our home country Belgium for a first posting in The Netherlands, where we stayed 18 months. Having just graduated...