As far as expats go – humanitarians are hands down the toughest. Highly skilled and educated, their careers are full of choice. Yet they sacrifice salary and security to take jobs that can also put them in danger.
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It was the Aussie sense of adventure that took journalist Prue Clarke to New York in 2000, it was the American dream that kept her there for 19 years.
Kissed on the backside by a fairy, is how expat Andy Whitford has described his luck being relocated back to Australia with an Asia Pacific role during COVID.
3 reasons we may lose Australians once borders open. Commentators and media have speculated that COVID could be both a ‘brain gain’ and a ‘brain drain’ for Australia. Neither side has the stats yet to take the win as the debate is playing out real time but where the argument for ‘gains’ was initially streaking
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I wish I knew how it would be to be free.” Nina Simone
This was the song that Michael Ellis used to describe his year of lockdown in the UK and his decision (and subsequent adventure) to get back home after 19 years living in London.
Relax returned expats, questioning your decision to return home is just part of the process. If I had a dollar for every time, I had a returning expat say to me ‘What have I done?’, I would be running Insync from my private jet. I know when I get hit with this question, I am
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For Change Manager Sarah, coming home from ten years in London was a change she thought she could handle.
Nicole had a great career in Australia as a well-regarded journalist and newsreader with Sky News when her hotelier husband James was offered a new role, first in Hong Kong and then in the ancient Chinese city of Xi’an.
Is local recruitment doing enough to keep Australian expats here once borders open again? Last week the government announced a suite of budget measures designed to ‘attract global talent’ and to set Australia up for the future. These measures, recommended by the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Global Business and Talent Attraction, Peter Verwer include
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Michael Waite, his wife Whitney and three kids were on an 18-month round-the-world adventure and in Australia for the Southern Hemisphere chapter of their trip to visit family when COVID and family tragedy struck.
