Preparing for International Employment Looking forward to new intercultural experiences in the context of an international job assignment can be enhanced and improved by looking back at past experiences and through insight of knowledge and understanding.  By examining your experiences with people from other cultures, you can begin to see how your awareness of intercultural communication can improve future interactions. As you consider the knowledge and skills you have gained, also consider how you have changed, and how your cultural perceptions have changed, over time. What are your strengths, and what represents opportunities for growth? In this Assignment, you evaluate your experiences and your knowledge and focus on future growth. To prepare for this Assignment: Review your papers from Weeks 2–4. What are some of the key areas of learning that you gained from the course so far? After using the BASIC and D-I-E tools in the Week 2 Assignment, how have you changed your cultural perceptions and ways of communicating with other cultures? How will this influence which country and/or culture you select? Consider what you have learned from this course. What have you learned about yourself? What do you consider as your strengths in communicating across cultures? What are the areas that you need to work on developing in order to become more interculturally competent?  How will your new location and/or culture present you with new challenges, and how will you prepare yourself to meet them? Bring to mind an experience in which you traveled to a new place. How were the people distinct or different, and how did you adapt? How might you use your knowledge of intercultural communication and competency to improve upon your intercultural interactions in this international job assignment? Submit a 2- page paper in which you: Identify a culture to study for an international job assignment as a communication consultant. Explain why you have selected this culture and/or country. Describe your personal culture and how it compares to the culture of your international job assignment. Describe your prior knowledge of the culture you have selected to study and why you selected this culture. Explain what you hope to learn or achieve by studying this culture in this manner. Cite all references using APA style citations. ...

1. Preparing for International Employment
Looking forward to new intercultural experiences in the context
of an international job assignment can be enhanced and
improved by looking back at past experiences and through
insight of knowledge and understanding. By examining your
experiences with people from other cultures, you can begin to
see how your awareness of intercultural communication can
improve future interactions.
As you consider the knowledge and skills you have gained, also
consider how you have changed, and how your cultural
perceptions have changed, over time. What are your strengths,
and what represents opportunities for growth? In this
Assignment, you evaluate your experiences and your knowledge
and focus on future growth.
To prepare for this Assignment:
Review your papers from Weeks 2–4. What are some of the key
areas of learning that you gained from the course so far? After
using the BASIC and D-I-E tools in the Week 2 Assignment,
how have you changed your cultural perceptions and ways of
communicating with other cultures? How will this influence
which country and/or culture you select?
Consider what you have learned from this course. What have
you learned about yourself? What do you consider as your
strengths in communicating across cultures? What are the areas
that you need to work on developing in order to become more
interculturally competent? How will your new location and/or

2. culture present you with new challenges, and how will you
prepare yourself to meet them?
Bring to mind an experience in which you traveled to a new
place. How were the people distinct or different, and how did
you adapt? How might you use your knowledge of intercultural
communication and competency to improve upon your
intercultural interactions in this international job assignment?
Submit
a 2- page paper in which you:
Identify a culture to study for an international job assignment as
a communication consultant.
Explain why you have selected this culture and/or country.
Describe your personal culture and how it compares to the
culture of your international job assignment.
Describe your prior knowledge of the culture you have selected
to study and why you selected this culture.
Explain what you hope to learn or achieve by studying this
culture in this manner.
Cite all references using APA style citations.