HDA

OUR SERVICES
Spousal Relocation Consultancy

 

Why we work in this area

HDA has worked in this area for almost 30 years, with significant success supporting the spouses and partners of senior managers relocating to another country, including helping them to secure offshore employment, self employment opportunities, and so on.

Often senior clients relocate internationally and this creates a range of problems and opportunities for their partners and spouses. Most often, organisations relocating key staff provide domestic support to spouses and partners in the form of eg. access to language training, access to legal advice (work permits, etc), access to local networking, introductions to local schools, clubs and so on, however, it is very infrequently that effective career leverage support is provided to their partners/spouses.

Very often that partners/spouses of senior relocatees are developing their careers as well, and our service gives them the best possible leverage to optimize their offshore opportunities.

 

Our competencies in this area

• HDA’s team has significant experience providing career transition leverage for senior and high potential clients, in the UK and globally, providing highly tailored individual support to secure new opportunities in the host country
• HDA’s international network, CareerNet International is especially well placed to support a broad range of spousal/partner needs globally – being able to provide local support and essential local knowledge in many overseas locations to help with specific cultural or family settlement issues

 

Our approach in this area

• HDA actively coordinates foreign career transition support activity wherever in the world it is required via our network of international offices, to secure new opportunities for partners/spouses in the employed and self-employed sectors, and to achieve speedy integration in the host country
• Our consultant work flexibly within the programme and tailor the content to the needs of individuals.
• The Programme includes one-to-one coaching and tangible support in the following areas:
  • Awareness of skills, experience and options, including psychometric profiling
  • Clarification and ownership of career goals in the host country
  • Development of local networking skills and local contact-making
  • Active Marketing of individuals in the local market

 

Who we work with on international career development assignments

HDA has recently worked with organisations like Fidelity Investments, Orange, Woodside Energy, Powerwave, RMS and many others in this area. See more here.

 

Who to contact about our services in this area

Luke Bennett, Senior Account Manager - llb@hda.co.uk / +44 (0) 207 484 5481

Joanne Simpson, Managing Career Consultant - jxs@hda.co.uk / +44 (0) 1202 481 811

Tricia Dicks, CEO - phd@hda.co.uk / +44 (0) 1202 481 811