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Expat Book Review: A Career in Your Suitcase

A Career in Your Suitcase, written by renowned expatriate author  Jo Parfitt, is a comprehensive guide to managing a portable career and the challenges and opportunities associated with working overseas. Jo is a serial expatriate and having ...

Are You Vulnerable as an Expat

Many people who move overseas to a new country are met with unfamiliarity: the people, places and customs can all feel so strange and this can quite often seem overwhelming to the average expatriate. New arrivals in a given location can often sta...

Expat Interview: How to Untour Shanghai

Today we meet Kyle Long, an expatriate who loved his student life in Shanghai so much that he decided to stay. Unable to find a job that interested him and met his needs for a challenge, Kyle took the bull by the horns and started his own business: U...

Expat Book Review : The Expats

Reinventing yourself in a foreign land is the stuff of dreams for many people and this couldn’t be truer for Katherine Moore, who jumps at the opportunity to move overseas with her husband, Dexter, when he is offered a plush expat contract in L...

16 LinkedIn Groups All Expats Should Join

LinkedIn is arguably one of the best tools available for building networks and connecting with people. The beauty of LinkedIn is that it allows you to actively search for people who share similar interests as you or who may be able to help you with a...

Expat Interviews : The White Collar Vagabonds

This week we meet Jennifer and Konrad, a young couple who have decided to leave the rat race far behind them and live out an expat lifestyle while running their business remotely. Keen to ensure that they choose the very best expatriate destination t...

5 Expat Coaches That Could Help You to Transform Your Life

Moving overseas and living in a foreign country far away from your friends and family can present a huge challenge, even for people who have previous experience of living abroad. If you do relocate, and find that you are having a hard time adjusti...

9 Top Tips for Surviving a Long Distance Relationship

Quite often international relocation can mean living apart from a loved one for any given period of time. Although this may not be the ideal scenario it is something that many expats face. If you’re contemplating, or are involved in, a long di...

5 Great Ways Trailing Spouses Can Earn Their Keep

There’s no end of coverage on trailing spouse syndrome and the potentially damaging emotional effects that can occur when an individual relocates to new country so that their partner can pursue their own career and interests. However, a life damned...

3 Things That Expats Overlook When Negotiating Their Contracts

1) The type of contract on offer. One major area that many expats overlook their expat contract negotiation is the type of contract they will ultimately be bound by; a local contract or international contract. The type of contract should have a major...