Relocating for work

The world we are destined to live in is shaped by human migration.
Economically more developed areas attract people to migrate in order to earn a
better living. In today's environment people do so when there is lack of
employment opportunities in their native area. Globalization has increased
interaction among cultures and nations. This globalization has increased
interaction and caused intensive migration and relocation.

In the last two years, the unemployed managers' percentage has jumped to the
highest figure. It is quite obvious that once you are disappointed after trying all
possible alternatives to get a job in your locality, you will be willing to do
whatever it takes to get a good one anywhere in the world. In my opinion
people are now calculating that it is better to relocate themselves rather than
being jobless, as it may prove more costly.

In addition to very positive signs showed by the labor market, there are still
millions of jobless people living in different countries and searching for the job
anywhere round the globe. Even before the time of recession, it was pretty
difficult to find a job and to make both ends meet. Moreover, in the recent
economic conditions, most of the unemployed people are left with no other
option but to relocate and move out for the sake of seeking a good job.

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It has been reported that out of the workers laid off during the year 2011, 20%
find a good and relevant job up to year 2012 mainly by relocating themselves.
Moreover, 32% employers are ready to pay their employees for relocation if they
do so for shifting in some other branch of the same company.

REASONS FOR RELOCATION

An opportunity to start with

In the start of your new career, you just need a job to begin with in order to
groom your personality and to get some experience. Additionally, if you get a
good and impressive job in the beginning you would never like to loose it.
Therefore, in order to take a good start you will not like to leave the very first
opportunity knocking at your door. And if that opportunity needs you to
relocate almost 90% of the people will agree to go if this is their first job ever.

Chasing the job intensive areas

For some of the specified and specialized type of careers, jobs are confined to
some specific areas only. Consequently, people need to relocate themselves to
get a good and attractive job in such a specialized industry. In such cases,
people are left with no other option instead of migrating to the place where
exactly the jobs are. Agriculture, Forestry, Finance and insurance industries are
some example of such specialized sectors. While there are certain areas, which
do not require you to relocate as their jobs are available worldwide like
Information Technology field.

Changing priorities

In order to advance in your career and to remain more competitive, people
prefer to migrate or relocate. While in some cases people after exhausting the
limited available job options in their own area, decide to go elsewhere in order
to get a better one.



Offered an increase pay

In case company asks you to go somewhere else you will see what incentives
are offered by the organization. If there is a remarkable increase in your
compensation package and other perquisites as well, you will definitely be
adopting the change. Additionally, if your employer assists you in the cost of
relocation and in selling your house etc. opting relocation offer will be very
useful for you.

STATISTICS OF PEOPLE RELOCATING FOR WORK

In the first half of 2011, 9.4% of the unemployed people round the globe moved
out of the town to find jobs, which is greater than the last year figure that was
7.6%. Moreover, the percentage of 2010 was a little greater than that of 2009,
which were 7.5% migrants who relocated themselves for the sake of work. Some
statistics, of the people relocating for work, of last few years are plotted and
are showing the following pattern.

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16
14
12
10
8 Relocation
%
6
4
2
0
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011



To relocate yourself or your whole family for the purpose of finding a better job
is the most difficult decision one will ever have to make. Additionally, better
standard of living and lower cost of living are also some key factors causing
relocation.

Up till November 2011 the statistics of people relocating for the sake of finding
work showed an irregular trend. It cannot be explained exactly in increasing or
decreasing pattern. However it is quite obvious from the historical data that
most of the migrating people are moving towards United Kingdom considering
UK the widest and linguistically the most assorted place. In Europe, statistics
showed a 46.7% increase in number of people relocating and migrating towards
China for finding jobs and to earn their living. But UK is still getting the highest
number of foreign country nationals coming there with an expectation to get a
good job relatively easily

PLACES WHERE MOST OF THE PEOPLE GO FOR RELOCATION

The most famous and favorite destinations where the people would probably
want to relocate are USA, UK and Spain. But this is just a general view as the
preferences of the people may change depending upon their present location as
well. As China is preferred by most of the Asians and United Kingdom is the
popular destination for the people of EMEA (Erasmus Mundus Europe Asia)
region. Following is the Pie chart representation of the percentage of people



migrating towards each of the country for finding work.

5%
10% 21%
9%

5%
15%
4% 8%
8% 4% 11%

UK Germany China Italy
Malaysia Singapore India Japan
Netherland Australia France

You can see that the highest percentages of unemployed people are migrating
towards UK for work. Germany is the second most popular place for such
people and the other countries are following UK and Germany with relatively
very small percentages. The reason behind this result is that United Kingdom
has become the hub of business world and a central or focal point for lots of
multinational organizations. The increase in the job opportunities in UK is
mainly due to the monopoly of European Union. After the formation of EU,
United Kingdom has become more popular among the MNCs as well. As a
result, there are ample of job opportunities in almost all the fields and
industries of UK due to which it is now becoming the most popular destination
for the job hunters. Especially for those who are unable to find a good and
profitable job in their own country. Such people can easily relocate themselves
and get settled in UK as they found UK job market very attractive. Getting a job
is easier there due to availability of plenty of job opportunities.



WHAT TO DO WHILE YOU ARE FACING RELOCATION FOR WORK

Sometimes, people do not move out of a job willingly rather they are forced to
do so by their employer companies. Organizations mostly decide that they can
operate in some other city or country as well and it is better for them to take
their own experienced employees on the other place in order to start
successfully. In such a situation you must first think and decide whether you
will be relocating or you will be finding a new job and will quit this one. Lots of
practical factors are there to think about. Cost of living, standard of living and
cost of relocation; everything should be kept in mind while deciding what to do.
A good and wise cost benefit analysis will take you towards the most favorable
decision.

WILLINGNESS OF THE PEOPLE FOR RELOCATION

A depressed market and downward going market conditions are the basic
factors that force people to relocate themselves in order to find a better
opportunity. This relocation for the sake of work is a big move and it can put so
many heads on fire especially family disturbance is there, every time you
relocate. That is the major reason that people hesitate to go for opting
relocation.

In addition, thinking and perception of people belonging to different areas
differ depending upon their own culture and priorities. People from Mexico,
Brazil, Turkey and Russia are more fond of exploring and seeing new
opportunities round the globe. In contrast, people of United States, Belgium
and Sweden are more interested to stay in their own countries, whatever the
situation might be. They prefer to stay closer to their homes therefore, they will
hardly go for migrating somewhere for doing job.

Last month results of a research study were released in which almost 28000
employees were surveyed across about 27 different countries of the world. As



per the study, 31% of those employees are willing to relocate for a better job
and career. These 31% are ready to go anywhere in the world in order to
increase their standard of living. Out of these 31% people willing to relocate for
work 78% are ready to migrate anywhere within their national borders or
offshore for a more lucrative career and to earn a better living. However out of
them 41% are willing to relocate permanently while the rest 37% will be willing
to migrate on temporary basis.

percentage of people willing to relocate for work
not w illing
22%
ready to move
permanently
41%

ready to move
temporarily
37%

A per the research, 20% of the people responded that they would be willing to
work abroad only if they will be offered at least 10% rise in their salary. This
shows that it is not that easy for so many people to shift somewhere else
leaving everything behind. Nevertheless, the economic situation prevailing in
the world right now and the increasing unemployment level force people to opt
such choices even if they are not happy with it.



Another rather more important fact is that job seekers' age and their career
level is major the deciding factor whether they will be willing to relocate for
work or not. As it is thought by most of the leading and multinational
organizations that bachelor, young and fresh graduates are more interested in
relocation as they take it as an adventure. Also, such job seekers have relatively
less family problems to cope with. May be due to this reason most of the
companies operating in more than one country require a lower aged person or
the one who is at a very initial stage in his career.

Another survey made by some British researcher reported that there are quite a
few employers who are willing to pay the relocation cost and all the related
expenses only to some specified, experienced and competent employees in
order to motivate or convince them to relocate for the sake of companies'
betterment. The employer compensates even the losses of selling the houses in
some cases. In such circumstances, relocation percentage increases
significantly and more people seem to be willing to migrate to other places for
the sake of work. This trend is normally seen in big and leading organizations.
However, in small and medium sized companies, are not expected to
compensate the employees and therefore in such organizations people usually
are not willing to relocate for work. They will either prefer to continue where
they are or they will find a better job.

Considering the option of relocation is not at all feasible for all the people.
However, if someone is facing severe financial problems and in addition to that
if the circumstances are right for him and his family to go for relocation, this
option should definitely be discussed. As most of the people say that when a
job hunter is exposed to extended geographical boundaries, he is more likely
to get a good job in a better organization.

Concluding the whole story, it is clear that recession has left very dark marks
on the economy of the world and to get the revival is not that easy. Due to this
reason, unemployment is consistently increasing and therefore in order to cope



with that people are trying to seek available job opportunities in almost all the
areas of the world. Consequently, people need to relocate for finding a good
lucrative job. Additionally, we noticed that job hunters are more eager to
migrate towards United Kingdom, Spain and China as the job opportunities are
growing remarkably in these countries.

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