About

Talent on the Move was born out of Charlotte’s own global journey. In 2016 when she and her recent husband set their mind on moving to Australia after working 5 years, they trialed all the options to move there in the best conditions. They first investigated the job assignment path with both their companies which turned out to be unsuccessful. Companies have cut down on their global mobility programs and are more likely to be recruiting locally than to be sending their employees abroad. They searched for a job from offshore which was incredibly difficult without knowing the labour market and knowing how to position themselves, without an adapted career toolkit and the right network in place, and finally without knowing both the companies and those who are open to sponsoring foreign skilled migrants within their respective industries. They ended up quitting their comfortable full-time jobs and moving to Australia job-less, giving themselves 6 months to find jobs.  They managed to get both sponsored within 3 months on the ground. They found the whole process a lot more challenging than they’d anticipated, and noticed that many migrants – from junior to senior levels – ended up sacrificing parts of their project’s key criteria, or even giving up.