CAITLIN PYETT
DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT, ASIA,
CROWN WORLD MOBILITY
PROMOTING WOMEN ON INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS
“I always knew that I wanted to work overseas, and I wanted to have that experience, but I just thought that would never happen for me, because there were no examples out there,” says Caitlin Pyett.
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or Caitlin, it reminded her of that phrase: you can't become what you can't see. “As a much younger woman, I couldn't see any assignees that looked like me. There were a handful of
very well-paid high-level traders, but for someone in my kind of role, and a woman, I just didn't think it would ever happen. I kind of mentally wrote it off, which is tremendously damaging, really.” Yet at age 40, Caitlin was offered a role working in
Singapore, and she now lives and works in Hong Kong. As well as being director of account management for the Asia region, Caitlin is also consulting lead and client advisory board lead at Crown World Mobility. She is a senior global mobility professional with 20
years' experience across policy, operations, advisory and strategy. She joined Crown in 2018 and before that she worked as global mobility policies & practices manager at AMEC in Singapore, and for BHP, Standard Chartered, ABN AMRO and BNP Paribas banks in London. “When I first started working in mobility in the late
90s, most of the assignees were men of a certain age, 30 to 40, with what they called a ‘trailing family’,” she explains. “Things are definitely changing now, but one thing that companies can do is to change the narrative internally by creating visibility about diversity in their assignment demographics. They can highlight women who've gone on assignment and they can make sure that all the policies are inclusive. That can go a long way to making a difference.”
A GLOBAL CAREER AND A WEALTH OF MOBILITY EXPERIENCE Caitlin
always knew that she wanted to work
internationally, having studied languages at university. “I've always been very interested in other places and
cultures. I got offered a role quite by chance when I was in my late 20s to be the relocation person for an IT
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