Leaving Ireland in 2 months, looking for a new challenge.

// January 25th, 2010 // work

Press release
For all who didn’t know yet (or don’t speak Dutch) a short summary of the press release that went out last week: Tribal Internet Marketing is changing its international strategy and relocating the German, Irish and Belgium activities to the office in Amsterdam – the Netherlands. Relocating the different offices will reduce overhead costs, creates a more efficient work-flow, improves the quality of work, is easier to manage etc. The old strategy focused on following clients into different countries by opening offices and hiring locals to do the work, a strategy that’s hard to keep up with. You don’t need an office in Spain to hire a Spanish native person, especially in a city like Amsterdam you find people from all over the world.

How do I feel about this?
I fully support the decisions made and see the benefits of one bigger international office against three rather small local offices. Not only should this result in an even better quality of services, but it also creates a great working environment; having people from all over the world in one team. The decision wasn’t easy to make,  especially from a personal point of view since I always expected to stay in Ireland for at least 3 years. After discussing everything extensively, I could only conclude that relocating the Irish office is the best way to ensure a healthy growth of Tribal’s international activities. When you look at the bigger picture it means certain investments only have to be made once in stead of three times (e.g. staff, training, office locations) there will be a stronger focus on the international clients with  more dedicated team members plus executive management and the communication lines will be shorter. The goal date to have everything transfered to Amsterdam is 31st of March so that still gives me over 2 months in Ireland.

What’s next for me?
This was a really hard decision but I’m leaving Tribal and will not join the Amsterdam office. I’ve always loved working for Tribal but after more then three years I feel it’s time for a change in my career, I want to broaden my work experience and look for a new challenge. I’m also not yet done with my international adventures and would like to move somewhere else in the world, meet new people, different cultures and explore a new country. I’ll write a blog post soon about the type of job I’m looking for, right now I’m still working on my CV and am not even sure where I want to go. All suggestions are welcome off course! I’ll be working with Tribal till the 31st of March, take the month April off (finalize things if needed) and hopefully start a new job at the beginning of May.