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Our Mission: We provide practical solutions for your practical problems dealing with international labour mobility. ELM supplies accurate information on local HR issues and makes working and living abroad into a successful experience for all parties involved.

Expertise in Labour Mobility is a knowledge-based consultancy, specialised in customising solutions for international labour mobility. With research, information provision, and training we enhance international assignments.
Our greatest strength is in helping businesses and individuals to become an integral part of the global workplace.

EXPERT NETWORK: Our e-community consists of a strong international network of 400 experts globally. It covers information requests at all levels of working and living abroad. From cultural management and recruitment differences to social security, labour law and expat taxation issues, ELM has information available. ELM works with a small core team of experts in Rotterdam, headed by ELM founder Nannette Ripmeester, who is considered a leading international expert on working, living and managing successfully across borders. The ELM Team truly understands that the success of your business is built on awareness of global possibilities, flexibility of approach and maximum use of professional talent across the world.

Our practical information on HR issues, labour migration, recruitment abroad, cultural management differences, and living and working conditions overseas has already facilitated many organisations and individuals in making the utmost of mobility.


ELM's added value at corporate level

For organisations Expertise in Labour Mobility represents a one-stop-shop possibility for all international mobility questions when entering a new market: ranging from regional labour market insights to taxation legislation and from cultural matters to HR related issues.

In today's knowledge-based world, employers depend more than ever on the ability and commitment of their staff. To ensure global corporate success, Expertise in Labour Mobility has developed several products to help companies make a success of working across borders and between cultures.

  • Our service HR Abroad helps companies to become more effective more quickly as they enter a foreign market.
  • We run for instance a workshop on Creating a Global Company aimed at managers, who are responsible for international business development within their companies, to help them improve their understanding of other cultures.
  • Likewise, Enhancing Global Corporate Success is aimed at multi-cultural teams. This intensive training at board and senior management level will ensure that the different cultures around the table add to your company's global corporate success.
  • Making Expatriation Work! is more than a course, it is a practical consulting product, consisting of various elements that improve the success rate of your company's expatriation policy.

ELM's added value at individual level

For individuals we ran workshops on the theme Looking for work around the Globe. Next to our highly praised series of Looking for work in... guides covering over 40 countries in more than 30 guides. These guides tell you how to job hunt in the country of your choice. Remember a career abroad entails more than translating your CV!
A donation for each guide sold is made to Save the Children, to improve the well being of children around the world.
As an extra individual service, we offer Career Consult,to ensure all your International career questions are answered in detail.

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