Whenever someone asks me the quickest way to increase your salary by 20%, I always reply them "work overseas!"
Being someone who has been working around the globe for the past
5 years, I know exactly what that means in terms of remuneration. For doing the same thing as in the home country, you get paid for accomodation, subsistence allowance, hardship allowance and occassionally you do get relocation package and a certain percentage rise in salary if your assignment is long(ish) enough.
Now, I can hear people shouting that overseas opportunities are hard to come by - which I disagree, to be brutally honest. It's true that people doing professional/technical work (like engineering, accounting, financial analysis, medicine etc) find themselves easier to move around than people involving in specific areas such as law and teaching, which are country-specific for more often than not.
Just this morning I read from the Saturday Recuit (6th Oct 2007) that IE Singapore are looking for a number of positions and apparently they are all required to travel.
So what are you waiting for?
Being someone who has been working around the globe for the past
5 years, I know exactly what that means in terms of remuneration. For doing the same thing as in the home country, you get paid for accomodation, subsistence allowance, hardship allowance and occassionally you do get relocation package and a certain percentage rise in salary if your assignment is long(ish) enough.Now, I can hear people shouting that overseas opportunities are hard to come by - which I disagree, to be brutally honest. It's true that people doing professional/technical work (like engineering, accounting, financial analysis, medicine etc) find themselves easier to move around than people involving in specific areas such as law and teaching, which are country-specific for more often than not.
Just this morning I read from the Saturday Recuit (6th Oct 2007) that IE Singapore are looking for a number of positions and apparently they are all required to travel.
So what are you waiting for?
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