Build International Skills

Build International Skills

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Being a truly international person requires more than just wanderlust! Your international skill set will set you apart from the crowd. Achieving career success in our globalized world depends on your adaptability and cross-cultural competencies. It’s easy to become proficient at describing cultures professionally (including your own home culture) and open the door to a world of career possibilities!

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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist
Uma
Volunteered in Guatemala & Peru
College of Saint Elizabeth
Her thoughts on Homestays
Going with my volunteer program, we stayed in a local host home and ate traditional cuisine three times a day. This approach to going abroad made me feel like I was much more a part of the culture than I would have been staying at a hotel.

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