By Philippe Riboton, Managing Director at HR Partners International Executive Search

We all know that expatriate assignments generally represent a huge acceleration of professional and personal development for senior executives. But what happens to “expatriates” when coming back home as they become “repatriates”?

by Philippe Riboton, Managing Partner at HR Partners International Executive Search

There was a time when having a job meant staying in an office from 9 AM to 5 PM from Monday to Friday.

By Philippe Riboton, Managing Director at HR Partners International Executive Search

This is the least-guarded secret in Central Europe at the moment. From Warsaw to Budapest and from Prague to Bratislava, business leaders will tell you before you even ask: their major issue is not business growth, their main problem is people.

by Philippe Riboton, Managing Partner at HR Partners International Executive Search

So you just closed the recruitment of your new commercial director for one of your subsidiaries and you’re happy. But what you don’t know yet is that you just made a EUR 50,000 mistake.