This article examines the process of selecting expatriate managers. Thanks to a symbolical interactionist approach, the authors show how, within a dynamic between “self” and “exo-identities”, stereotypical representations of identity take part to build an “attributed identity”, which will act as a rational founding for a decision of assignment, doomed to failure. Finally, according to an approach focused on the individual, the authors show that the possibility of an international assignment acts predominantly as an implicit promise for a successful career. Thus, from the conception of “Promethean” trajectory, the eventually expatriate will experience the multiple phases of a “Protean” journey.