1. Marketing Your International Experience
Articulating your Education Abroad Experience & Wowing Employers

2. Agenda Reflect, Connect, Professionalize You are the 10%
What Employers Want
Your International Experience
Identifying Transferable Skills
Practice Your Elevator Pitch
Resources & Staying Involved

3. Stats from 2015 Open Doors Report
You are the 10%!

4. Employers Value International Experiences
Cross-cultural competency
Understanding of the “global workplace”
Programs that have “real world experience” with another culture
Introduce the fact that employers value international experiences as they relate to the “Global Workplace” etc.
Develop transferrable skills
Develop transferrable skills

5. NACE Job Outlook Report 2014*
Top resume attributes after GPA include:
Communication skills
Leadership
Problem-solving skills
Strong work ethic, teamwork
Initiative
Flexibility/Adaptability
Entrepreneurial Skills/ Risk- Taker
NACE Report – what skills are important? Which skills might you learn from an International experience?
*NACE 2014 Survey-From August 5, 2013, through September 13, 2013, data was collected for the Job Outlook 2014 survey. A total of 208 surveys were returned—a 19.8 percent response rate.

6. Components of Your International Experience
Academic
Cultural
Personal
Community Engagement
Professional
Environment

7. Holistic Experience
Components:
Housing
Academics
Community Engagement
Travel
Student clubs/ organizations
Volunteering
Internships
Visas process
Academics – Community Engagement – Housing – Environment – Individual
Glavin – MM
You are not limited to these components- what else made your experience yours?
Note: shorten the time for this exercise, stress that they can work on this at home, just do 1-3 in the session

8. Chris Minor, Babson College class of 2014
Example
Urban Dorm Living
Debate Skills
Original Thinking
Logical Thought Processes
Emotional Intelligence
Classroom Differences
Engaging with students of different backgrounds
City Immersion
Maintaining U.S. identity
Being outgoing instead of shy
Staying active on campus
Public transportation knowledge
Geography
Cultural curiosity
Organizations
Environment
How to travel safely and frequently via trains, planes, and buses
Example of student’s pie chart showing skills learned abroad
Note: look for other examples to show – Int. Student etc.
International business skills
Application styles
Using culture to network
Career Networking
Ease of Travel
Chris Minor, Babson College class of 2014

9. Activity 1: Holistic Experience
Identify components of your experience
Write 1+ thing you learned from each component
Share the components and learned skills with your table

10. Connecting Transferable Skills
Circle skills that you can highlight as transferable skills for the workplace
Top resume attributes after GPA include:
Communication skills
Leadership
Problem-solving skills
Strong work ethic, teamwork
Initiative
Flexibility/Adaptability
Entrepreneurial Skills/ Risk-Taker
Example skills:
Be self-confident, yet able to listen and learn from people whose value systems are different
Contribute to an ethnically diverse team
Creatively solve problems by applying familiar concepts to unfamiliar situations
Take personal risks and act independently
Be flexible and adaptable to rapidly changing situations
Imagine, forecast, analyze or address business situations from a different cultural frame of reference
Have a basic command of the local language, and able to use it in practical situations
*NACE 2014 Survey-From August 5, 2013, through September 13, 2013, data was collected for the Job Outlook 2014 survey. A total of 208 surveys were returned—a 19.8 percent response rate.

11. Branding Transferable Skills: The Interview
An interview IS:
A meeting in order to get to know each other
A conversation about possibilities
A chance to learn about the company
An opportunity to present yourself as the best candidate for the job
An interview is NOT:
A life or death situation
A test
A one way street
And YET:
It is an artificial situation
You will be judged from the very first minute you walk in

12. Activity 2: Elevator Pitch
Choose 2 or 3 skills to highlight
Write a statement of your international experience and what you learned from it
Glavin:
Note: instead of writing out pitch in the session – take 5 minutes and talk it out with a friend or write out statements for a skill or two
Mix & Match skills depending on your audience

13. London School of Economics, Academic Year 2012-13
Example
London School of Economics, Academic Year
“The skills that I learned at the London School of Economics really have made me a more complete person in as many ways as I can think of. In the classroom, I learned how to think quickly and logically on my feet since the teachers use debate as a tool for communicating ideas clearly and powerfully. And after the classroom, I would make sure to hang out with the fulltime students, either on campus or somewhere off in the city. It really was through conversing with these students and the city that helped me understand different perspectives and develop the global mindset in a different way than I have here at Babson.”
Chris Minor
Glavin

14. Photo by Marzan Khan, Education Abroad Photo Contest 2012
Bottom Line
Employers value your ability to . . .
Demonstrate cross-cultural competence
Articulate lessons learned and skills developed through your international experience.
CCD - Megan
Photo by Marzan Khan, Education Abroad Photo Contest 2012

15. Additional Resources Going Global Uniworld Online Directories
American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries
Foreign Firms Operating in the United States
CareerBeam
Branding Documents & Prep
Virtual Mock Interview
American Chambers of Congress Abroad
Your Campus Career Center
CCD – Megan
Note: would be nice to emphasize GoinGlobal
Photo by Nina Shapiro, Education Abroad Photo Contest 2012

16. Thank you! Allie Agati aagati@providence.edu
Center for International Studies Providence College
Erin Bell
Global Projects Program
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
Glavin
Photo by Annemarie Kraan, IEW Photo Contest 2008