Does working abroad appeal to you? Does it sound like a great adventure or a perfect get away from your home country? Or perhaps the opportunity to experience a new country and a new culture? Do not underestimate the situation: career hunting abroad requires more than translating your CV! Different cultures all require their own approach.

An ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach will not work. Stop sending out hundreds of more or less similar applications every week. Each job, employer and count...

Does working abroad appeal to you? Does it sound like a great adventure or a perfect get away from your home country? Or perhaps the opportunity to experience a new country and a new culture? Do not underestimate the situation: career hunting abroad requires more than translating your CV! Different cultures all require their own approach. An `one-size-fits-all' approach will not work. Stop sending out hundreds of more or less similar applications every week. Each job, employer and country ne...

Does working abroad appeal to you? Does it sound like a great adventure or a perfect get away from your home country? Or perhaps the opportunity to experience a new country and a new culture? Do not underestimate the situation: career hunting abroad requires more than translating your CV! Different cultures all require their own approach.

An ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach will not work. Stop sending out hundreds of more or less similar applications every week. Each job, employer and count...

Does working abroad appeal to you? Does it sound like a great adventure or a perfect get away from your home country? Or perhaps the opportunity to experience a new country and a new culture? Do not underestimate the situation: career hunting abroad requires more than translating your CV! Different cultures all require their own approach. An `one-size-fits-all approach will not work. Stop sending out hundreds of more or less similar applications every week. Each job, employer and country nee...

Does working abroad appeal to you? Does it sound like a great adventure or a perfect get away from your home country? Or perhaps the opportunity to experience a new country and a new culture? Do not underestimate the situation: career hunting abroad requires more than translating your CV! Different cultures all require their own approach.

An ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach will not work. Stop sending out hundreds of more or less similar applications every week. Each job, employer and count...

Imaginations, expectations, and motivations that propel the pursuit of migration

Although contemporary migration in and from Africa can be understood as a continuation of earlier forms of interregional and international migration, current processes of migration seem to have taken on a new quality. This volume argues that one of the main reasons for this is the fact that local worlds are increasingly measured against a set of possibilities whose referents are global, not local. Due to this gl...

An in-depth analysis of Belgium's public finance in the recent past

Prior to the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008 Belgium's fiscal balances and debt ratios seemed to be on a firm consolidation path. Today, however, Belgium is facing a major budgetary challenge, albeit to some extent lesser than that of other European countries. A proper understanding of the current situation and the design of the most appropriate policy response always benefit from an in-depth analysis of the recent p...

Met dit boek krijgt de lezer een overzicht van vijfentwintig eeuwen geschiedschrijving van West-Europa. In het eerste deel, over de Oudheid, behandelt de auteur de historiografie in het klassieke Hellas, het Romeinse Rijk, het oude Israël en het vroege christendom. In een tweede deel overloopt hij de geschiedschrijving van duizend jaar West-Europese christelijke Middeleeuwen. In het derde deel wordt de uiteenzetting voortgezet van de Renaissance tot de eeuw van de Verlichting; bijzondere aan...

Otto Scharmer en Katrin Kaufer maken een grondige analyse van de onderliggende oorzaken van de economische, sociale en spiritueel-culturele crises van onze tijd. Voorts bieden zij een praktische methode waarmee leiders de belangrijkste uitdagingen van onze tijd kunnen aangaan om een economie te creëren die zorg draagt voor het welzijn van iedereen. We moeten af van een verouderd 'ego-systeem'-bewustzijn dat zich volledig richt op het welzijn van het individu - hetzij een enkel persoon, een g...

De case study, de bestudering van een verschijnsel in zijn natuurlijke omgeving, wordt in het Nederlandse en internationale sociale onderzoek steeds belangrijker. De vraag hoe case studies uitgevoerd (moeten) worden is niet eenvoudig te beantwoorden. In verschillende wetenschappelijke benaderingen worden uiteenlopende antwoorden op deze vraag gegeven.

In Case studies vindt de lezer een grondige bespreking van de verschillende mogelijkheden. Aan de hand van enkele centrale vragen komen de moge...