Almost half (45%) of HR professionals would be willing to move overseas to enhance their career prospects, according to a report by recruitment consultants Robert Half International.
But 44% of respondents admitted that they did not explore potential opportunities to work overseas within their own companies before moving abroad.
Nearly three-quarters of HR professionals (71%) said that training on intercultural behaviour would be useful when trying to understand cultural differences, the international survey of 1,800 HR and finance executives in 11 countries showed.
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Four in 10 HR employees believed the best time to live abroad was after a couple of years of work, before “settling down”, and more than one-third (36%) said the best time was shortly after graduating.
Phil Sheridan, managing director of Robert Half Finance & Accounting, said: “Where appropriate, companies must help their staff further their careers internationally, and encourage them to look internally for opportunities abroad rather than looking elsewhere.”
