Working Overseas Improves Career Prospects!
Career advancement is something that has traditionally been achieved through hard work and sector specific knowledge and experience. However, a growing number of companies are now increasingly looking to employ and promote people with experience of working if different countries and cultures, according to an article by Susan Karlin for IEEE Spectrum.
Carlos Founard, who worked in a plethora of European countries before returning to his native Spain, and now actively recruits foreign programmers for IT company iA Soft Aragón explains:
“I believe working abroad exposes you to new technologies and creative approaches, and working with multicultural teams makes you more flexible. You have to cope with ways of thinking that you could never imagine.”
In addition to career and personal development Founard cites greater autonomy in the work place, higher pay, tax breaks and the adventures of travel as further good reasons for taking up overseas postings.
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