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Partner Support
News & Comment
Focus fend off expat winter blues with new programmes for 2008
If you’re planning a warm welcome for expatriates arriving in the New Year then check out the programme of support from Focus in 2008.
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New Title for Trailing Spouses
A new book by a trailing spouse provides a wealth of practical tips and coping strategies for partners accompanying their other halves overseas, or waiting behind for their return.
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22/02/2007 Statistics on working women highlights need for dual career support
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Articles
A warm and
practical welcome
As the expatriate organisation FOCUS celebrates the end of its 25th-birthday
year, Anna Lambert talks to those involved about the secret of its success.
Read this article in full in the Winter 2007/8 issue. Access a digital copy.
Career counselling – why it makes a difference
As case studies show, career counselling can help trailing partners buy-in to the move, upgrade their careers and – in doing so – it aids retention.
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Career counselling case studies
Download our Re:locate Factsheet on Career Counselling for Partners
Spinning in the right direction
If you’re helping a relocating partner who’s looking for work, the Career Wheel, developed to help people identify what they want in their career could prove invaluable. Sue Clarke explains how it works.
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Clearing the mobility hurdles
Dual-career and education concerns have long been cited as key inhibitors to mobility. But there’s more to these issues than practicalities alone – and companies need to tailor their policies accordingly, as Sue Shortland explains.
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Trail Blazers
If companies are to retain relocated employees, they must ensure that partners are equally satisfied with their new environments and the career opportunities available to them. Elizabeth Stafford looks at how ‘trailers’ can get the most from a posting abroad.
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Practical Advice
Advice for settling in
You’ll feel settled in a new area as soon as you start to feel that you know people there and have got a handle on what’s going on. Here are just a few ways of ensuring this happens sooner rather than later!
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Advice for partners
Having to deal with the upheaval and personal change that relocation necessitates offers both a challenge and an opportunity. If you’re employed too, and are following a relocating partner, you’ll almost certainly be considering the future of your own career. We look at the options.
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