Could this strategy potentially work or pay dividends?
#16
Re: Could this strategy potentially work or pay dividends?
IMO that is massively more likely than any US employer hiring a foreigner to work in the domestic US HR department. .... Haven't you even stopped to think how daft an idea that sounds?
#17
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Re: Could this strategy potentially work or pay dividends?
I pity his wife - who, as it turns out, may be his ticket to the US... but he doesn't actually realize it yet.
Ian
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Re: Could this strategy potentially work or pay dividends?
Have a read on here to get a feel for the US job market, particularly for older workers: Work and Employment Forum - Jobs, employers, employees, hiring, resumes, occupations, government, laws, unions, contracts, workers, part-time - City-Data Forum
The best working assumption is that if you're director-level in a large corporate and get laid off once mid-50s or older, it will be nigh on impossible to match that level of job or income again. The safest way to plan a career in a corporate environment here is to financially plan that you won't be working much past 55; you'd want to be set up so that you could get a few contract roles if lucky, and use savings to gap fill the years until the pensions kick in.
Non-standard qualifications or experiences are also very, very tedious to job hunt with, as my husband found last year. Many of the online application forms are impossible to complete with addresses that don't include a zip code, or a degree that doesn't have a GPA. There is often simply no way to proceed to the next screen.
The best working assumption is that if you're director-level in a large corporate and get laid off once mid-50s or older, it will be nigh on impossible to match that level of job or income again. The safest way to plan a career in a corporate environment here is to financially plan that you won't be working much past 55; you'd want to be set up so that you could get a few contract roles if lucky, and use savings to gap fill the years until the pensions kick in.
Non-standard qualifications or experiences are also very, very tedious to job hunt with, as my husband found last year. Many of the online application forms are impossible to complete with addresses that don't include a zip code, or a degree that doesn't have a GPA. There is often simply no way to proceed to the next screen.
#19
Re: Could this strategy potentially work or pay dividends?
The OP has been given good advice therefore I am closing this thread.