International Assignment Management
Learn how to establish international assignment strategy and policies. This includes planning, implementing, administering and evaluating all activities relating to international assignment and global mobility. Learn all facets of the process: assessment and selection, management and employee decisions, predeparture preparation, on assignment and completing the assignment.

Key topics and issues include:

• Expatriate cost projections
• Types of international assignment policies
• Repatriation patterns and issues

Who should take this course?
This course is one in the Eastern Michigan University Continuing Education Strategic Human Resource Management Series for advanced HR professionals. It is recommended for HR professionals who have strategic-planning or policy-making responsibilities, have at least 3 years of human resources experience, and/or are GPHR/SPHR/ PHR certified.

Cost: $275 (includes all class materials)

HRCI Recertification credit: 8 hours (requires attendance at all sessions)

Where: EMU Livonia, 38777 W. Six Mile Road, Suite 400, Livonia

When: Wednesday evenings, 6 - 8, October 29 - November 19, 2008

To Register: Call 734.487.0442 or register online at ce.emich.edu/cape

Instructor: Kathy Chiaravalli, GPHR
Kathy Chiaravalli has been a global HR executive and consultant for more than twenty years. Ms. Chiaravalli has traveled to over twenty-five countries to design and implement business solutions and has been responsible for international human resource programs covering fifty countries for four different multi-national companies. As Vice President - Total Reward Systems, she was one of the five highest ranking women at Allied Domecq (the world's second largest wine and spirits company). She is currently Managing Partner of Strategic Human Resources. Ms. Chiaravalli has a Masters degree in Human Resources from Cornell University and a Bachelors degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has completed extensive multi-week executive education programs at INSEAD in Fontainebleau France and a Global Leadership program at Babson College in Wellesley Massachusetts.

She has taught International Benefits for the International Employee Benefits Foundation. She was a Global Team Advisor for the ACA and a Board Member and Editor for the New England Chapter of the Human Resource Planning Society. In addition she co chairs the Detroit International Special Interest Group of SHRM and has been affiliated with AIESEC and the NFTC. She teaches the SHRM Global Learning System class in preparation for the GPHR certification exam for EMU.

Many companies pay for this course through tuition assistance or professional development budgets. Ask your employer if you qualify.