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General Info » Hello HR |
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Moving assignees with children poses many challenges:
- understanding how the education system works in different locations
- facing the worldwide competition for school places
- dealing with the difficulty of moving families at non-entry point times and grades
- negotiating the politics of the waitlist
- evaluating and funding the high costs of private education
- balancing the needs of schooling and housing
- providing accurate, up-to-date information from multiple sources
- juggling the tight timetable of relocation with lengthy admissions cycles
- accommodating the learning needs of each child, including special needs
- making the choice between private and public
- knowing the differences in curricula
- coping with the stress on the family and on you to get it right
School Choice International is the premier education consulting firm, trusted by dozens of Fortune 100 companies to effectively fulfill the school placement piece of employment relocation packages.
School Choice International knows that your company’s success depends on instant productivity when you relocate your staff and School Choice International delivers peace of mind by ensuring that the transition goes smoothly.
"It's official - you and your team are AMAZING!! Absolutely perfect - wonderful update, planned itinerary, oh my goodness - if all of my providers were this fantastical."
As an employer, you cannot afford to ignore your relocating employees’ concerns about their children’s education. The statistics make it clear:
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84% of assignees cite worries about their children's education as a reason for not accepting an overseas assignment.
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71% of assignees cite difficult family adjustment as a reason for an early return.
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51% of assignees have children accompanying them.*
*(Figures: Cendant Mobility 2004, Cartus 2007 Policy and Practices Survey and GMAC Global Relocation Trends 2008)
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 Getting back to business…faster
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You’ve asked your employee to relocate because the position she can fill will benefit your company—but her work can’t start until she and her family are adequately settled in their new home. Knowing that a spouse is relaxed and happy, that children are steadily adjusting, and that the family is feeling positive about a move will free your employee’s time, focus, and energy. As an education consulting firm, our job is to relieve the stress and complexity of school placement so that your employee can focus on the job she’s there to do.
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Increasing employees’ trust in you |
Maintaining your employees’ positive attitude about your company is critical to your business. When your employee feels supported by management in the changes he is being asked to make, his investment in your company increases. Employment relocation packages that include school placement services contribute to the overall feeling that the company is looking out not only for their own interests, but for the interests of the employee and his family. This enhanced level of trust can only mean a more positive work relationship between the assignee and you. Deliver peace of mind with School Choice International.
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Preparing employees for relocation |
Across the board, our business clients find that employer support for family relocation creates a positive atmosphere around job transition. School Choice International offers webinars and worksite seminars to companies that frequently relocate employees, or companies embarking on group moves.
Webinar and seminar example topics include:
- Negotiating the US education system
- How to help your child during a time of transition
- Moving with a child with special needs
- General educational overviews of countries/areas
We also offer telephone hotlines for group moves and individual consulting services for employees, executives, and senior staff.
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Global Education Explorer |
 Relocating families now have a cost-effective, web-based resource to best understand and compare educational systems across the globe. Global Education ExplorerTM will enable you and your assignees to quickly compare curriculum, assessments and customs between countries simply by inputting the home and destination countries, and the child's birthdates.
Global Education ExplorerTM, encompasses all aspects of children's educational experiences - including academic content, curriculum mapping, and traditions like what to wear to school, how birthdays are celebrated, and what to get the teacher for holidays. It's everything parents 'need to know' that will make all the difference in a successful transition.
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Research |
If you’re a business that frequently relocates employees to the same country, you may want to consider offering employees an overview of schooling options in that area. School Choice offers research on educational and relocation issues on a contract or fee-for-service basis.
Some examples of our research projects are:
- International school tuition and fees
- Curriculum comparisons
- Local and international schools by location
- Educational viability studies
Preparing your assignees ahead of time for the educational options in their destination country will contribute to their rapid adjustment, allowing families to become settled more quickly, and getting staff back to work painlessly. Employer support for family relocation is crucial to maintaining a positive relationship between company and assignee - a simple School Choice report on a destination country will give employees the sense of being supported throughout their relocation process.
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Books in Bulk |
One of our publications may provide an excellent preparation guide for your relocating employees. We offer discounts on bulk orders of our books for companies who relocate employees regularly, including books on specific regions as well as on topics like repatriation. Assignees greatly appreciate having access to written information about the relocation and repatriation experiences as part of employee relocation packages.
Contact Jeryss Haynes at jeryss@schoolchoiceintl.com for further information on ordering your bulk copies.
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You are responsible for transferring a senior executive to start your company's new office overseas. He informs you that his wife is not prepared to go. His 3 year old son is due to begin at one of the city's most prestigious nursery schools next year; he has been on the wait list for two years. Furthermore, his older daughter was just been given a solo in the spring concert.
You assure him that there are plenty of excellent schools in the new location. You phone a school that your colleague has mentioned and ask how to sign up. It is February. You quickly learn that the admissions season for schools is just about wrapped up and the director tells you that you may call back in a few months to see if any space has opened up but it's not likely.
You don't know what to do next, but it is your responsibility to make this move happen.
Imagine...
You are responsible for a group move to Mexico City. You will be transferring 200 employees over a two year period, many of them with children. You do not yet know who will be going, how many will have children, or what their ages will be, but you are fairly sure that the international schools will have insufficient capacity to accommodate all of your families. Your experience working on previous assignments tells you that if the parents are unhappy with available schooling, they will not move.
How can you ensure that the schools available in Mexico City will be satisfactory for potential transferees with children?
What kinds of assistance will your families require in order to investigate schooling and make the most out of non-traditional educational options?
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