Career Networking
Think strategicially how study abroad fits into your long-term professional goals. Reflect on the relationships you made while abroad. Stay in touch with your friends and colleagues from China or India. Reach out to Alliance students from other sites and study terms.
Don’t forget to put your study abroad experience on your resume! Specific examples from an internship or research project are great talking points in interviews and can highlight cross-cultural competency as well as other important qualities and skills.
Think about these skills you might have acquired*:
- Understand cultural differences and similarities
- Inquisitiveness
- Learn through listening and observation
- Establish rapport quickly
- Adaptability - flexibility and comfort with ambiguity
- Ability to make “transitions”
- Initiative and willingness to take risks
- Time management skills
- Accept responsibility
- Creativity
- Interest in continuous learning
- Communicate despite barriers
- Learn quickly
- Ability to handle stress and difficult situations
- Manage/organize
- Lead others in formal/informal groups
- Conduct research despite language and cultural differences
- Cope with rejection
- Ownership of projects
- Self reliance
- Open-mindedness
- Assertiveness
- Self-confidence
- Goal orientation - clear cut goals and objectives
- Motivation to achieve
- Positive outlook toward hardship and adversity
- Resourcefulness
- Relationship building skill
- Adventurous spirit, curiosity
*List taken from the website of Arcadia University’s The College of Global Studies.
