Ready to Roar: Intercultural Knowledge
July 16, 2024
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Intercultural knowledge
What is intercultural knowledge?
The ability to demonstrate the awareness, attitude, knowledge, and behavioral skills required to equitably engage and include people from different local and global cultures.
What intercultural knowledge looks like:
- Soliciting and using feedback from multiple cultural perspectives to make fair decisions.
- Promote fair treatment and mutual respect by encouraging practices that ensure all individuals can contribute and thrive in group settings.
- Engage in cross-cultural experiences by seeking opportunities to learn from a variety of communities, enhancing personal growth and global awareness.
- Actively seek out and value alternative perspectives, driving respectful dialouge and creating a collaborative environmment where all opinions are integral to decision-making.
- Identify resources and remove obstacles that hinder success, ensuring fair access and opportunities for all, regardless of background or personal differences.
Where to build intercultural knowledge skills as a student:
- Community Cultural Events
- Student organizations
- Volunteer LSU
- Resident Assistant roles
- Customer service positions
- Class projects
- Study Abroad
How employers may ask about intercultural knowledge:
- Tell me about a time where you went out of your way to ensure that a peer felt like they mattered & belonged.
- Interacting with others can be challenging at times. Describe a situation when you wished you had acted differently with someone.
- Describe a time when you worked to alleviate a problem that someone else was struggling to solve?
- Can you share an example of a time when you worked with someone from a different background than yours? What did you learn from the experience?
How to put intercultural knowledge skills on your resume:
- Volunteered with a local refugee resettlement agency, providing English language instruction and cultural support to new arrivals.
- Provided high level customer service to a broad diverse group of clients in a fast-paced work environment.
- Hosted multiple programs highlighting the varrying cultures of students living in the East Campus Apartments on campus.
- Enhanced cultural competence by studying abroad in Spain, collaborating with local students and navigating daily life in a different cultural context.
- Organized and facilitated a series of workshops on intercultural awareness and communication for my sorority's membership.
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