During my final year I made the decision to seek a postdoc position overseas, and was thrilled when I was offered a fellowship at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, which had been on top of my list of possible destinations.
"It will close the gap, but Coke is still in a superior position overseas," said Robert H. Beeby, president and chief executive of Pepsi Cola International.
John McNamara, 54, the national director of international assignments for Deloitte & Touche, also worried about how his family would adapt to his position overseas.
If, as reported, Mr. Wilson's meetings with Libyans were unauthorized, the question arises why he was able to retain his position overseas for so long.
Of the younger generation of Indian bioscientists, a good number seek postdoc positions overseas, some of them seeking excellence and others believing that this will help jump-start their careers.
However, if Canada's experiences are anything to go by, positioning overseas aid as a handmaiden of the national interest brings inconsistencies and undercuts its potential benefits.
They lined up Thor Global Enterprises, a company on the Caribbean island of Tortola specializing in "placing foreign servicemen in private security positions overseas," according to a contract signed last May.
Most try to prepare students for leadership positions overseas through study-abroad programmes, international consulting projects or immersion trips.
As recently as last fall, financial professionals who lost their jobs as Wall Street bled could hope for new positions overseas.
Kitfield writes that "the Army and Marine Corps have also depleted their stocks of equipment pre-positioned overseas, which will hamper their ability to respond quickly to emergencies elsewhere.
