Expat Career & Business Success Tips

Expat & International Careers: Your Brand DNA is Critical to your Career Success Abroad

Megan Fitzgerald, Expat Personal Branding Coach — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:36:11 PST

In today's competitive global marketplace, you cannot afford to not set yourself up for success or jeopardize your performance with poor role and environment choices. Being able to compete with top talent requires demonstrating a history of results that comes with performing well at work. Given the investment an expat makes to move to a new country is usually not a small one, and the fact that we spend at least a third of our waking hours in our jobs, (un)knowingly putting yourself at a disadvantage at work is unwise and tragic in my opinion. By positioning yourself using your...

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Expat and International Careers: Personal Branding is the Key to Expat and International Career Success

Megan Fitzgerald, Expat Personal Branding Coach — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:12:00 PST

In today’s dynamic, competitive, global marketplace where employers are seeking out talent across the globe, we must be visible to right decision makers so when those choice projects and job opportunities come up we are well positioned to secure them. This is why personal branding is what any current or aspiring expat should be using to guide their career management or international job search. My recent article in the Expat Career Column on Expat Focus, a top online resource for all aspects of expat life, describes numerous other benefits of using personal branding to drive your...

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Expat Stories: Big in China's Alan Paul on Blogging and Balancing Passion and Practicality for Success Abroad

Megan Fitzgerald, Expat Personal Branding Coach — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:19:16 PST

Imagine being settled into a comfortable life not too far from New York City. Things are going well for you professionally. You feel secure, confident and in control of your future. All in all life is pretty good. Now imagine your spouse being offered a job half way around the world in a country you know little about. A place where you are certain that there would be few local professional prospects given you don't speak the language. A place where you know no one and have no idea what living would really look like. Understandably, you experience a gamut...

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Expat Stories: Acclaimed Author & Fine Art Photographer Living 'As the Romans Do'

Megan Fitzgerald, Expat Personal Branding Coach — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:35:39 PST

Photography by Diane Epstein Diane and Alan Epstein are both great examples of what is possible when you commit to facing whatever obstacles you encounter head on in order to realize your dream of living and working abroad. They went from owning a business in San Francisco to living in Rome as an acclaimed author and fine art photographer that exhibits her work worldwide. I first met Diane during a creativity workshop she was running in the Roman countryside about 6 years ago. Her passion for creative expression and photography was obvious even then. I recall speaking with her at...

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