Alain Verstandig,
Managing Director, Net Expat
I was delighted the other day. I met a young lady who turned out to be an expat with a large multinational. I explained what Net Expat does, how we offer solutions to Dual Career problems. Her reply was the big, warm smile of someone who had just been given the solution to an uncertain future. In the end she added: "It's good to see that finally services like yours are emerging."
As well as this gratefull smile, the whole Net Expat team, whitch is growing rather quickly, is proud to announce the opening of our new offices in Paris: Net Expat is now located in a lively, typically Parisian district near "Place la Madeleine". our French team will be pleased to meet you at:
Boulevard Malesherbes 19-75008 Paris Tél.:0810/105688 - Fax: 0810/105689
And to close this introduction on a hight note, net Expat has been granted the prestigious Award of "King Baudouin Foundation". It is an honour whitch I would like to share with the rest of our team and our customers: we all deserve it for successfully launching a new generation of services dedicated to improving employees' mobility within multinational companies!
Philippe Mauchard,
Senior Engagement Manager 
If we carry our
analogy with marketing a step further, the executive talent pool
can be segmented into four groups. All care deeply about culture,
values, and autonomy, but each differs in what it looks for in
a company:
Luc Tayard
de Borms, Managing Director "
in
foreign commerce, or the Economic Circle which is a think tank
on economic matters and their link with society, or Trust Funds
for young persons setting up in business.
Net Expat
interviewed Mrs. Eva Domènech who benefited from a Career
Program in 1998 and has now been working for Melia Travel Europe
for a year.
- Mentally, you
should be ready to approach the job market as if you were starting
from scratch, and you must be prepared for criticism of your
linguistic shortcomings. Therefore, the preparation for interviews
is key in order to sell your best skills, and stress your extra
value to a Belgian employer. You also need to be very persistent
and mentally strong but the process of looking for a job is already
an enriching experience in itself.
Geneviève
Brame, Consultant at
globe, I can see my own country
from a distance, and it's comforting to sleep with the earth
in my room". But when words and things they take for
granted at home are not available, the unknown intrigues and
even frightens them: "I thought I was going to get lost
in the strangeness", "I was afraid of losing my language".
It's clear that it is vital to have a link between the country
of early childhood and the country of destination. As well as
necessary reference points in space and time, the luggage list
must include "memory objects" to help the transition,
"each time we have to build a nest as the birds do, with
things we've always had", "I took some conkers from
my garden, they wouldn't grow in the sand". As children
aren't spared from nostalgia, we have to listen to what they
say "sometimes I miss my Granddad, my stone, my grass",
"my Dad's invisible because he's always at work and we don't
count".
Theresa Leary,
Head of Admissions, Vesalius College-
multi-lingual interns
as well as graduates with excellent communication skills. Our
students, who are sharing the international experience with their
parents, may have lived in several countries by the time they
come to us. Many adult expatriates find the flexibility of the
American style system at Vesalius suitable to the pursuit of
their educational goals while on overseas assignment with their
family.