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6 Benefits To Ask Your Employer For When Working Abroad

If you enjoy traveling and discovering new cultures, working overseas can be a tremendously rewarding experience. You can not only work and live overseas, but you can also learn about a new culture and develop new abilities that will benefit your career in the long term. But, choosing to work overseas is a big decision…

Preparing Your LinkedIn Profile For An International Move

LinkedIn is one of the most important sources of new roles today. When moving abroad it is important to ensure your LinkedIn profile gives the right message. This infographic from Hansen & Company gives top tips on preparing your LinkedIn profile for an international move.

How To Apply For A Chattel Mortgage In Australia?

Have you just started a new business in Australia? And are you in need of business vehicles or equipment but lack the finances to acquire them? If yes, don’t worry because this post will talk about chattel mortgages in Australia, an extremely useful type of loan when it comes to business equipment. But what are…

6 Expat Job Hunting Tips To Get Your Dream Job

Almost all of us have been taught by our parents to continue our education so that we can have the perfect job that impacts both our own lives and the rest of society. As we get older, we really want to find our dream job, even if that dream job leads us to a…

How To Explain A Gap In Your CV

There can be many reasons why you have a gap in your CV and many try to hide the reasons feeling it will reduce their chances of getting the next job even if the gap was for a valid reason. How should you deal with the career break? Illness, accident, caring…

Best Cities In Australia For Digital Nomads

Digital nomads seek new locations to experience, explore, work from, and add to their impressive list of “places I’ve been to and worked from”. Office Needle has compiled a list of the best 54 cities for digital nomads around the world. Here we list the best cities in Australia for digital nomads. …

4 Work Tips For Digital Nomads

One of the best things about living in a time when working remotely is accepted is that you can travel and see the world while holding down a full-time job. If you’ve ever felt the urge to pack your bags and move to a new country temporarily, being a digital nomad is probably the…

3 Quick Ways To Put LinkedIn In Your Resume

These days, it’s almost impossible to imagine a job search without LinkedIn. This handy tool helps us with many things: from analyzing career trends to contacting recruiters and representing our accomplishments. So, you’ve written a catchy summary and a headline, included key skills and added samples of your work. Once…

Wanting To Work As An Expat Partner? Do You Really Want To?

When your partner is offered a career enhancing opportunity abroad and you decide together to take the step, the family will enter a whole new phase in family life. If you are happy to leave your job behind and look forward to spending more time with the family and building a new life in the…

The Impact Of Giving Up Your Job To Become An Expat Partner

Not everyone outside the expat community responds positively when you talk about being an expat. Sometimes judgement is apparent; you can be seen as a spoiled, stay-at-home expat partner with no material needs or wants, spending lazy afternoons at the pool-side sipping cocktails with friends. This may or may not have been true many decades…