[ID:0648]While engineering is a technical profession with substantial emphasis on "hard" skills, the success or failure of an international engineering project most often rests upon "soft" skills. Can you manage a project where language and cultural differences abound? Are you good at handling contrasting approaches, values and expectations?

The cross-cultural aspect of an engineering project may, in fact, be the single most defining factor in your success overseas. For this reason, international recruiters place a lot of emphasis on it when selecting from a pool of candidates.

The engineering profession is very collaborative and interactive. Whatever the focus of...