Marketing Your International Experience
Whether you have lived, interned, studied, or volunteered abroad, you have demonstrated these skills:
- Adaptability
- Appreciation for diversity and other perspectives
- Community building
- Conflict and crisis management
- Creativity
- Foreign culture and language competency
- Knowledge of international issues and politics
- Independence, initiative, and self-reliance
- Interpersonal communication
- Motivation, drive, and perseverance
- Open-mindedness
- Organization and time management
- Problem-solving
- Self-confidence
Be Memorable by Displaying Your International Experience Effectively:
- Reflect upon your experience and review the skills you have enhanced.
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- Professional growth
- Personal development
- Knowledge gained
- Connect this experience to characteristics that employers/graduate schools seek in their candidates.
- Utilize these accomplishments in your updated resume/cover letter/elevator pitch.
Be Intentional When Connecting Your International Experiences.
Practice answering interview questions related to your experience. For example:
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- Tell me about a time when you had to adapt quickly to change. What are the top three lessons you learned?
- How did this experience change your life?
Check out Interstride for more job-searching tips for international students.