New York, New York…If you can make it here, they say you can make it anywhere. And Scott Cooper is living proof. Scott initially went to New York following his partner and her career. He didn’t have a job or people he knew and to make his situation even more challenging, this expat thought his new life was the right time to ditch his day job in civil engineering and move into digital marketing.
Trena Blair will be the first to admit, she didn’t want to come home from New York. In her two and half years in the city that never sleeps, she had met all three of her New York goals – to volunteer at the Met, to study at NYU and to secure a role. And she was happy. Very happy. But a career opportunity back home in Sydney for her husband, meant their New York dream had to come to an end.
Despite the appearance of ‘fate’, tales of people turning chance meetings with strangers into career opportunities is rarely an accident. Sydney business founder, Trena Blair is a case in point. Seven years ago, she set her career off on a new trajectory after answering one question from a stranger sitting beside her at a graduation
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People often do extreme things to avoid Sydney house prices but none more extreme than Chris Edwards and her husband. Fifteen years ago when staring down an exorbitant quote to renovate their tiny, inner city cottage – they decided to take an easier option. Move to Singapore. On their own coin and for Chris, without a job.
A common surprise many expats face when returning home to Australia according to the latest Advance research, is the lack of value the local recruitment market places on international experience. It is easily the number one challenge I discuss with Insync members and the number one contributor I believe to the barrier expats face finding
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Podcast producers Margot Andersen and Simone Pregellio share the expat stories from both the podcast and six months of conversations with Australians who have been part of the 600,000 contingent who have come home during COVID.
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Balancing two expat careers in the one family. If someone tells you they know the definitive way for couples to manage the demands and needs of two global expat careers in the one family, they are clearly lying to you. Every family is different, every circumstance is different. The only thing families in this situation
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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.
