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SHRM Speech on Emerging Markets

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak about managing talent in emerging markets at the SHRM 2012 Talent Management Conference & Exposition in Washington, D.C. I always enjoy sharing insights with industry colleagues and clients as well as exchanging perspectives on global trends. Combining effective relocation best practices with global talent management solutions continues to provide leading organizations with a competitive advantage in emerging market ventures.

MNCs and global HR professionals remain acutely interested in implementing best practice solutions to optimize ROI in emerging markets. They are more and more committed to reducing the number of policy exceptions often triggered by the intricacies [...] Read More

Talent Mobility in APAC | Worldwide ERC’s Workforce Summit, Shanghai

Cartus is once again a proud sponsor of Worldwide ERC’s annual Global Workforce APAC Summit, this year entitled Talent Mobility in APAC. The event takes place March 22-23 in Shanghai’s Pudong Shangri-La Hotel and is the largest relocation and mobility conference in Asia. More than 450 delegates will take part in educational sessions, trade exhibitions and networking opportunities.

Cartus has been a leader in Asia, helping more than 250 clients with over 4,000 moves into, out of, and within China. This year, we are proud to be moderating two sessions in Shanghai featuring esteemed panels of industry leaders in the region.

Survey Says: Biggest Relo Challenges Are …

Not long ago, Cartus convened a small client focus group to talk about relocation issues from A to Z. Results of our newest survey, “Biggest Domestic and International Relocation Challenges,” had just been compiled, and we wanted to get their reactions to the results we were seeing.

Subgroups were formed to talk about three areas of concern that survey respondents singled out: Employee Entitlement and Expectations, Policy Competitiveness, and Talent Management.

Those who were discussing Employee Expectations agreed with our survey respondents, who said that although keeping an eye on cost was top of mind for them, it was followed by concerns [...] Read More

Connecting Global Talent Management with Global Mobility Management

For the last several years, the National Foreign Trade Council’s International Human Resources program working committees have increasingly focused on linking global talent development and the effective planning and usage of cross-border assignments. Although this is not unexpected, it is surprisingly not common practice — even within major multinational corporations (MNCs).

Certainly there are a small number of leading companies that have been role models for years in their holistic approach to global talent management. In our experience, it is only within the last three to five years that other MNCs, which are successful in their international business activities, have begun [...] Read More