Seminars
- GenXpat: Seminar for young people on making a successful life and career abroad.
- U.S. and Canadian Workplace 101: Seminar for international students on the cultural underpinnings of the U.S. and Canadian recruitment process.
- Hiring and Retaining GenXpats: Seminar for managers, HR and relocation professionals who wish to develop packages that attract and retain GenXpats.
GenXpat
Target Audience : Students and young professionals planning internationally mobile careers. This seminar is most often booked by groups of outbound students and university student mobility centres.
GenXpats are often drawn by the excitement of a jet-setting career, without considering the impact on their future professional and personal development. The GenXpat seminar helps participants examine both the professional and personal challenges young people face as they embark on a career abroad. Participants will look at the factors to consider when deciding to become a GenXpat, strategies for contract negotiation and international career planning, as well as methods balancing professional aspirations with a satisfying a personal life ‘on the move’.
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Target Audience : Students and young professionals planning internationally mobile careers. This seminar is most often booked by groups of outbound students and university student mobility centres.
GenXpats are often drawn by the excitement of a jet-setting career, without considering the impact on their future professional and personal development. The GenXpat seminar helps participants examine both the professional and personal challenges young people face as they embark on a career abroad. Participants will look at the factors to consider when deciding to become a GenXpat, strategies for contract negotiation and international career planning, as well as methods balancing professional aspirations with a satisfying a personal life ‘on the move’.
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U.S. and Canadian Workplace 101
Target Audience : International students and graduates who wish to understand the U.S. and Canadian approach to job-hunting, interviewing and résumé-writing. This seminar is most often booked by university career centres.
International students are often frustrated when their high academic and professional qualifications don’t seem to impress U.S. and Canadian employers. They feel uncomfortable “selling themselves” because they believe their credentials should speak for them. This seminar helps international students understand the cultural underpinnings of the U.S. and Canadian recruitment process by looking at the rationale for accomplishment-based rather than credential-based candidate assessment. Students will learn to re-frame their self-presentation in a way that will make the greatest impact with U.S and Canadian employers.
Request a detailed proposal
Target Audience : International students and graduates who wish to understand the U.S. and Canadian approach to job-hunting, interviewing and résumé-writing. This seminar is most often booked by university career centres.
International students are often frustrated when their high academic and professional qualifications don’t seem to impress U.S. and Canadian employers. They feel uncomfortable “selling themselves” because they believe their credentials should speak for them. This seminar helps international students understand the cultural underpinnings of the U.S. and Canadian recruitment process by looking at the rationale for accomplishment-based rather than credential-based candidate assessment. Students will learn to re-frame their self-presentation in a way that will make the greatest impact with U.S and Canadian employers.
Request a detailed proposal
Hiring and Retaining GenXpats
Target Audience : Managers, HR and relocation professionals who wish to develop packages that attract and retain GenXpats.
Relocating senior mangers with their spouses and children is (almost) a thing of the past. Why go to the trouble and expense of moving an entire family, when you can send a young, single, cosmopolitan and talented manager abroad instead? The number of such GenXpats is on the rise though they are often “stealth-expats”: hired as “locals” in a foreign country, or sent on short-term or commuter assignments, all to avoid awarding the expensive full-fledged expatriate package. However, such policy contortions have a negative impact on the transparency of the compensation system and they represent a missed opportunity to attract the best young talent.
This seminar makes the case for the creation of a “GenXpat package”, in which international school budgets and home-sale subsidies are replaced with benefits that are both cheaper and more relevant to childless, apartment-renting GenXpats. Not only would the “GenXpat package” save money vs. the traditional model and allow a greater number of expats to be formally “on the books”, it would be a major attracting factor for GenXpat talent, showing that their needs will be recognized and met.
Request a detailed proposal
Target Audience : Managers, HR and relocation professionals who wish to develop packages that attract and retain GenXpats.
Relocating senior mangers with their spouses and children is (almost) a thing of the past. Why go to the trouble and expense of moving an entire family, when you can send a young, single, cosmopolitan and talented manager abroad instead? The number of such GenXpats is on the rise though they are often “stealth-expats”: hired as “locals” in a foreign country, or sent on short-term or commuter assignments, all to avoid awarding the expensive full-fledged expatriate package. However, such policy contortions have a negative impact on the transparency of the compensation system and they represent a missed opportunity to attract the best young talent.
This seminar makes the case for the creation of a “GenXpat package”, in which international school budgets and home-sale subsidies are replaced with benefits that are both cheaper and more relevant to childless, apartment-renting GenXpats. Not only would the “GenXpat package” save money vs. the traditional model and allow a greater number of expats to be formally “on the books”, it would be a major attracting factor for GenXpat talent, showing that their needs will be recognized and met.
Request a detailed proposal