“I had many ‘woe is me moments’ and my identity took a hit. For a while I didn’t know who I was without the autocue and bouffant hair!” Nicole and her hotelier husband James, moved to Hong Kong in 2010 when an opportunity came up for him with the W Hotel. Having successfully built her […]
In my latest podcast I talk to Jane Holman who after a five-year senior HR career in New York was told by an Australian recruiter that her overseas experience was not relevant. Not only that, it was a deterrent to future employers. This was despite Jane having a lengthy career in Australia before she left and
Aussie repats share stories of ‘reverse culture shock’ and lost careers in new podcast series As a reported 400,000 Australian expats come home or prepare to as a result of COVID-19, a group of repats are warning of the impact of ‘reverse culture shock’ and of the local rejection of their international experience. ‘Boomeranging –
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Bryce was at the end of a two-year working visa in the UK working for SkyNews when he decided he wasn’t quite ready to come home. He was working for the entertainment desk and one day when habitually swapping his copy of “Heat” magazine for the finance desk’s copy of the “Economist” he stumbled on a job ad for a role that “no one ever gets”. He applied anyway, took a sick day and a Eurostar to Paris and the next ten years, as they say, are history.
Jane had a coveted job as the Head of HR for the AFL when she decided to pack it all in to go to New York with nothing but a suitcase, a three-month tourist visa and a pair of itchy feet.
