How To Choose A Quality University
What do you look for when shopping for a university? Whether they have the program you want is certainly one factor. How good that program is would be another. Leaving financial …
Category: Adjusting to Life in Another Culture
Tips For Your First Job
It’s your first week at work. You moved to Seattle for a new job. New country, new culture, new language. Exciting and scary, right? Completely natural. To help ease you into …
Study Skills That Help International Students Succeed
You have just left home for the first time to study abroad. Here you are, in a new culture, using a foreign language everyday. Perhaps even eating food you are not …
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How To Build Professional Connections In A New Country
You just left a successful career behind and moved to a new country. Perhaps your spouse got a job here, and the whole family is moving, starting a new life. You …
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How To Help Children Adjust To A New Culture
Changing culture can be an exciting experience. For both adults and children. At times, it can also feel a bit uncomfortable. Adults can reach out to resources in the community. But …
Use Your Five Senses To Help With Cultural Adjustment
How easy is cultural adjustment for you? Is it an adventure? Relatively easy? Exciting? Challenging? The experience is different for each person. If the adjustment is easy for you, wonderful! If …
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Fostering Cultural Understanding at Work
When you hear the phrase Fostering cultural understanding at work, what do you think of? Do you automatically think of Human Resources organizing a cultural sensitivity workshop? Or that HR is making …
Tips for a Smooth Cultural Adjustment
You have just moved to another country. And not just a change of country, but also a change of culture. And you have brought your children with you. So in addition …
Practice the Cultural Aspects of Interviews
Interviews can be uncomfortable for some people, especially if it’s your first one in a new culture. It’s not knowing what to expect, what is culturally appropriate, etc. etc. Here are …
Career Advancement Tips for Immigrants
How do you advance your career in your native culture? Some of those ways probably apply in the U.S. as well. This article offers some career advancement tips for immigrants in …