Home Ties
Explore the challenges of maintaining family relationships, managing property back home, and staying connected whilst building your life overseas.
Asking Your Boss for a Transfer or Sabbatical
A transfer or sabbatical is a great way to experience working abroad without necessarily having to say goodbye to your current job. If you work for an intern...
Considerations on Returning to the UK
When moving back to Britain, you will, of course, have to deal with exactly the same kinds of issues as you did when going abroad in the first place, except...
Expatriate Communities
Once you’ve made the move abroad, you’ll often be feeling a little bewildered. You’re in a strange country; you may not speak the language at all or on...
Getting a New UK Passport When Working Abroad
If you happen to be working abroad when your UK passport is up for renewal, you can still get a new passport, as long as you leave plenty of time and plan ca...
Maintaining Your Business Network When Working Abroad
With a bit of organisation and commitment, you can actually use your time working abroad as an excellent marketing tool. If you think of the kind of crazy �...
Making Cheap International Phone Calls
Wherever you go to work abroad, you’re going to want to stay in touch with your friends and family back home. But it’s not just in Britain that internati...
Renting Out Your Home in the UK
Many people who go and work abroad have a home in the UK that they decide to rent out. It can be a great way to make sure the mortgage is paid while you are...
Should You Go Work Abroad on Your Own?
Making the decision to go and work abroad is exciting and exhilarating, whether you’re going as part of a team, with a friend or on secondment from your em...
The Importance of Having an EU Driving Licence
When you decide to work abroad, you will quickly realise the papers, gadgets and phases that help you get by when you’re away from home. So while a univers...
Things to Do Before You Leave the UK
In all the excitement of moving abroad, it's easy to forget something important. So here's a list of things you should do before leaving Britain Checklist Ge...
Updating Your CV After Working Abroad
Working abroad will add an extra dimension to your CV, so it is important that you maximise the impact of your overseas experience. You may think that, becau...
Using Agencies to Help You Relocate
Moving house, even within your own country, is generally considered to be one of the most stressful events any of us ever experience. How much more stressful...
Voting While Outside the UK
You don’t need to lose your right to vote just because you decide to work abroad. An alarming number of expat Britons don’t seem to know this, however. A...