You should never limit the development of your career. Once you get the opportunity to advance, you must not think twice to take it. Today, industrial technology has merged with the digital one. The industrial revolution 4.0 is on the horizon, and those who are not mobile enough to find where their skills are valued the most will be left behind.
Here, you will learn how to be a professional who is always ready to work overseas. You can build new networks, get involved with a new working environment, and grow your personality.
Understanding the Standardization
You might be a high-achiever in your current company, and you will have no trouble with applying for a new job with the same appreciation. The sole reason for that condition to be possible is that they all measure your capacity and experience with the same standard. When you go overseas, things may surprise you.
For example, if you plan to work in Australia, they have the recognition of prior learning (RPL), which is a standardization grading system that allows an overseas employee to be rated with the Australian standards. The authority makes this system necessary to protect themselves from unskilled workers.
In your case, you have to make sure that all of your qualifications are translatable into the authorized grading system in your target country. Another example: you are confident with your fluency in Korean because you have joined a course from a well-known Korean course institute in your home country, and you have got the graduation certificates. Once you get to Korea, you will be surprised and disappointed because most companies and universities only recognize TOPIC (Test of Proficiency in Korean).
Accommodation
If your company handles all of your daily expenses, then you can skip this section. Those who move overseas and survive on their budgets should read this to the end.
The seemingly-profitable promises of overseas companies often sway people. Those companies do provide high pay rates, but the candidate employees usually ignore the fact that the accommodation there is also expensive. As a result, the net income will be not as much as expected.
You should carefully calculate the accommodation to live in your destination country. Moreover, you have to make some native friends first to know the real costs of living there.
Protect Yourself with Insurance
If you are abroad, you want to be safe. In the United States, for example, it is a common sense that a foreign worker without medical insurance is a dead worker. The cost of dental care alone there can reach $5000 per visit. Imagine that large amount of money without coverage. It will be distressing, won’t it be?
Therefore, you have to scrutinize all the rules and policies of the insurance in your destination country. You cannot and shall not rely everything on your employer because they are driven by profits not sympathy.…
Read More