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Why Expats should know about Hofstede and his study of the five dimensions of culture You just received an excellent job offer abroad, or maybe you decide to open a company abroad and have the full plan read. Either way, you concluded that you checked what to consider when moving away from home. You think […]
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International Students and Young Professionals: A Guide for Adjusting to a New Culture Step 1 on the Cultural Adjustment Process When adapting to a new culture, get over the fact that you will never be 100% native. And you don’t need to. I start this article by making a minor excuse: the phrase you see
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Why Any Expat Before a Move to a New Country Should Consider This This is the second part of the Moving Abroad Checklist (the first you can find here). To give the perfect context to the importance of researching where you live, I will start with a personal anecdote. A Personal Tale: The Questions That
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When we start a new life abroad, sometimes we ignore the chances it might not go as expected. We want to keep our morale, confidence and spirit that this is going to be an exceptional year. It is the survivorship bias.
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How to Adapt in a New Country Faster with 3 Simple Actions Sitting here on my desk while I complete nearly a decade living abroad, I wondered what lessons I wish I knew at the beginning of my journey that would make immigrant adaptation (meaning my own adaptation to life in a new country) much
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Often Cases of Expat Assignment Failure are Easy to Avoid We will list the reasons for expat failure in this article, but first, let’s define what that means. What do expatriate failure and expatriate success refer to? Expatriate failure can be defined as a group of factors that impede an expatriate’s success, such as early
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Understanding the ways to overcome homesickness when living abroad Feeling homesickness while living abroad is common. Incredibly common. What is not usual is a true understanding of why we feel that, and this is something that can change lives. Let me tell you a story. I remember clearly how my last weekend before moving abroad
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What Causes Cultural Shock and how the Hofstede Dimensions of Culture works. Or: What does culture shock mean? Here is the short answer: Cultural shock is a condition experienced by an individual abruptly exposed to a different culture. There may also be symptoms, such as frustration and alienation. It may result from visiting or living
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