Learn how to describe and market your experience for future academic and professional opportunities. Find resources on resumes, cover letters, and interview tips that will help you articulate how your experience impacted you and prepared you to achieve future goals. You can also schedule a meeting with an adviser from Career Services to further talk through how to present your experience to potential employers and graduate schools.
Interview Tips
Interviews are an opportunity to share experiences that best showcase your skills and strengths most applicable to the position for which you are interviewing. Many employers ask behavioral questions, which require specific examples of how you used or developed relevant knowledge, strengths, and skills for the job. Learn how stories from your academics, work experiences, involvement, and education abroad may be used to answer behavioral questions.
Resumes and Cover Letters
Including your education abroad experience in your resume, cover letters, and personal statements introduces that experience to prospective employers and graduate schools. View examples of how to best include your education abroad experience in your application materials.
Transferable Skills
Employers are often interested in skill sets that can be transferred from one industry or field to another, or “transferable skills.” You likely developed and strengthened many of these transferable skills during your time abroad. Learn how to identify and document transferable skills developed from your experiences abroad.
Reflection Guide
Use a reflection guide to discover and document relevant experiences you can use as you develop cover letters and personal statements and prepare for interviews.