Hi A,
Different companies offer three types of transfers:
- Temporary project assignment abroad (for the duration of the project)
- Short-term office exchange programms (usually between 3 and 12 months depending on the company)
- Permanent office transfer
All of them are different in terms of difficulty to get. While project assignments abroad are quite common and easy to get, permanent office transfers are very challenging and require hard work from your end and a bit of luck.
In any way you would need the support of your mentor, the staffing manager in your region as well as partner in the targeted office, who will push your transfer.
I had two transfers in my career:
- From the Financial Services practice to Automotive within the same region
- From Munich to Dubai office
I need to say that transfers are a pretty tricky thing and require a lot of sensitive political skills.
If you need any help, just drop me a PM.
Happy to share my experience.
Best,
André
Thanks Clara! How do you build a relationship with the target office? In other words how do you get on projects with them? For ex: I am in a NA office and i want to do a project with an Australian office.
If you don´t have any built relationship that you can already leverage, once you are hired you can get yourself staffed in projects with partners from that geography. This is what people normally do, and it works very well -but needs big time investments, months-. Cheers!
Hi Clara, may you elaborate why it is impossible to transfer to Singapore? As an overseas Singaporean, I was hoping to stay in London for a couple of years after my studies before transferring back home to sg. Thank you