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.
You spend most of your life inside your head... Make it a nice place to be in.
Wondering how to re-enter the workforce?
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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Most recent Blog Posts
Why some assignments fail
Not every posting ends happily. Many secondments fail, affecting not only corporate projects but also, especially in the long term, family and personal satisfaction. In this blog post, I would like to share a few insights that I was able to find in the course of my research on this topic. I like to refer to academic studies and large-scale studies and I am glad that there have been more studies on this topic especially in the last 20 years. If you want to look more into the topic feel free to check out this info box. In this box, I put the names of some papers and studies that I consider relevant.
I know I am a much more fun mum when I have my own project – Role Model Story of Marloes
Together with her two kids (now 6 & 8 years old) Marloes and her husband moved from the Netherlands to Taiwan. Back in the Netherlands Marloes worked as a consultant and it was their first international move. In this role model portrait, Marloes is reflecting on her path from a corporate working mum in the Netherlands to distributing fun & supportive workbooks for children moving abroad as an entrepreneur.
The New Post Pandemic Workplace – implications for the expat partner and international career couple
In this blog post, I share with you possible changes due to COVID-19 and how you can respond and benefit as the expat partners. Make yourself ready for a new work culture
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