What to do with my career after becoming a mum moving abroad a long break ?
What to do with my career after becoming a mum moving abroad a long break ?
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6 action steps to re-enter the workforce after moving abroad / taking a career break
Welcome to Sharethelove
Moving abroad entails more than cultural obstacles and language barriers. It also brings change into your life on every dimension. Relationships and marriages do change along the way, friends are missed, professional identity is on stake and most women are struggling finding new fulfillment in their life when the former job can’t be packed in a box and brought along on this adventure of living abroad. This website is here to help, to inspire, to empower, and to show you that the time abroad is a great opportunity for personal development if used right.
Career Planning
Plan your career as the Expat Partner and enjoy your professional life abroad.
Facts & Figures
Read about culture shock and adaptation theories abroad and prepare yourself
Community
Connect with strong women around the globe and learn from role models
Why is it called SharetheLove?
SharetheLove is about motivating and supporting each other. The journey of an expat partner can be very lonely. In times of big change and lack of support network, you often feel misunderstood or out of place. SharetheLove is a home for all expats, expat partners, and global minds to learn from each other, inspire each other and realize that you are not alone with your problems. In the spirit of SharetheLove, the world is a better place when we are open to change and willing to walk the planet with an open heart and open eyes.
Thoughts of other fellow readers and clients
Who am I without my career?
The profession is an important pillar and fulfillment for me. What to do if I can't continue my career as planned?
I feel lost and alone
My new life is exciting but also lonely. How do I create a new home abroad?
The calm before the storm
The move abroad or back is imminent. I would like to prepare for it and consciously control my next steps.
Do you question your own abilities? Do you struggle to communicate confidently and tackle your next professional step with joy and ease? Join this interactive Confidence Workshop February 9th.
In this 60 minute workshop I will introduce you to the concept of the so-called impostor syndrome. I will share a your personal toolkit to gain back your confidence and we work on positioning yourself in a way that feels authentic and comfortable to you.
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1:1 Coaching Program
From Career Break to Career Boost! The 3-months rebounce program for global mums.
Mastermind Group
Jumpstart your Career after moving abroad or moving back home. The 4 weeks mastermind group for global women looking to make their career a priority again.
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I offer monthly Global Coffee Dates and workshops about career planning and gaining clarity on your next step.
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Free workbook to tackle the job hunt abroad
Moving your career abroad or planning to re-enter the workforce after spending time with the family can be a long journey of frustration and unforeseen challenges. But no worries, there is just the right support waiting for you.
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The thriving Female Expat study
Unfiltered and raw insights into the lives of the female breadwinner with a global career. The one who deliberately chose to pack her bags aims for an international career against all odds.
Learn about career plans, family planning, and different approaches to master a global professional life.
Most recent Blog Posts
Should I stay or should I go?
The pandemic is entering a new phase. How do I know that? The fact that more women are approaching me again who are faced with the decision of whether or not to move abroad tells me the world starts spinning again. For a long time, companies froze and suspended their international assignments. Now it seems to start slowly again and especially women from Europe with possible assignments to America are just approaching me. So I thought it would be a good time to talk about this crucial phase of the decision-making process.
The 4 different types of expat partners
In this blog post, I will paint a picture of the accompanying partner trying to summarize different study findings. It will help you to get a feeling for the wide range of personalities of the expat partners.
Your path to a purposeful career
Finding your purpose. It’s become a bit of a buzzword, hasn’t it? An entire generation (and now parts of previous generations as well) are striving for a job that not only offers an attractive paycheck but is also fulfilling and singing. In other words, it has a purpose.
But what is a career led by purpose and how do I find it? I will answer these questions in this blog post.
Most discussed Blog Posts
What do spouses work when moving abroad?
Learn how many expat partners are working abroad, the question of having a work permit or not and what to do when Plan A of continuing your former career does not work out.
The Protean Career
In the literature, a distinction is often made between the typical male and straight career path (alpha career) and the typical female, more volatile career path (beta career). Indeed, to this day, women face additional constraints and challenges in career planning. This article briefly describes the Protean Career – where women define their own definition of a successful career.
How to write a CV as the expat partner
In my coaching, I have spoken to so many expats who are struggling with including their time abroad in a way that portraits it as an accomplishment. Therefore, I want to dedicate this blog post to all those who want to improve their CV right now and need a bit of motivation to finally do it right.
The aimless & spoiled expat spouse – an opinion piece
A couple of days ago, I stumbled across yet another media coverage about expat spouses and the fact that those well-educated women are throwing away their career ambitions to follow their husband abroad. Interestingly enough, the comments below the post have been even more prejudiced than the article itself. I wonder why it is so hard to change the image of the expat spouse and what we can do to become recognized as what we are: amazing, brave, solution-oriented globe trotters with a lot of understanding for global issues?
The Impostor Syndrom: Why it is such a big deal for Expats/Expat Partners
I recently joined a webinar about the Impostor Syndrom amongst the Expat community by Monika Evje. It was really interesting and offered a lot of helpful information, so I did some further research and decided to share my learnings in a blog post.
The 5 phases of culture shock and how to go through smoothly
Culture shock is what you can expect when moving to another country. It does not matter if you move to a place similar to your own culture or you are changing continents. No matter the distance, you will still experience a cultural shock and the different phases it comes with.
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