I have always been fascinated by the idea of working abroad. The prospect of experiencing a different culture, meeting new people, and gaining global professional experience has always been a dream of mine. So, in my last year of university, I decided to embark on a journey to find a job overseas. In this blog post, I will share my experiences, lessons learned, and some tips for fellow students who are considering a similar path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Step 1: Research & Identify Your Target Job Market<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The first step in finding a job overseas is to identify which countries and industries you are interested in. I started my research by exploring different job markets and considering factors such as language requirements, visa regulations, and job prospects. A helpful resource I used was MyWorldAbroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For me, I had a keen interest in working in Asia, particularly in the technology industry. After some research, I narrowed down my target job market to Singapore and Hong Kong, as both cities are known for their booming tech scenes and being expat-friendly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Step 2: Networking & Building Connections<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Once I had identified my target job market, I focused on building connections with professionals in those countries. I started by reaching out to alumni from my university who were working in Singapore and Hong Kong. I found the LinkedIn Alumni Tool to be extremely helpful in connecting me with fellow graduates who were more than willing to share their experiences and insights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to reaching out to alumni, I also attended various networking events organized by my university’s career center and industry-specific organizations. Networking not only helped me gain valuable insights into the job market but also opened up potential opportunities through referrals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Step 3: Customizing Your Job Application Materials<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As an American applying for jobs abroad, I quickly realized that I needed to tailor my job application materials to the local context. This meant adapting my resume and cover letter to the specific country’s norms and expectations. For example, in some countries, it is common to include a photo and personal information such as age and marital status in your resume, while this is not the norm in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I also had to be mindful of the language requirements for my target job market. As I was applying for jobs in Singapore and Hong Kong, I made sure to highlight my proficiency in Mandarin, which is a highly desirable skill in these markets. If you’re applying for jobs in countries where English is not the primary language, consider taking language courses or obtaining a language proficiency certification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Step 4: Preparing for Interviews & Cultural Differences<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n When it came to interviewing for jobs overseas, I had to be prepared to navigate cultural differences and different interview styles. In some countries, interviews may be more formal, while others may have a more relaxed approach. I found websites like Glassdoor<\/a> and InterviewPrep<\/a> helpful in getting a sense of what to expect during interviews in my target job market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition, I made sure to research the company’s culture and values to ensure that I would be a good fit for the organization. This not only helped me during the interview process but also gave me a better understanding of what to expect when working in a different country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Final Thoughts & Tips<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n My journey in finding a job overseas was filled with challenges and valuable lessons. While the process was not easy, it was definitely rewarding, as I am now working in a fantastic tech company in Singapore. Here are some tips that I would like to share with fellow students who are considering working abroad:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Good luck on your journey to finding a job overseas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have always been fascinated by the idea of working abroad. 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There are many exciting professional paths that center on the singular goal of better health, opening up a broad variety of options.<\/p>\n Understanding the nuances of public health vs. health promotion management helps prospective practitioners expedite and enhance their professional journey.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Public Health<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n From the ever-increasing life expectancy to childhood obesity, global pandemics and even the environment, public health is a concept that touches everyone. It\u2019s a hotbed issue that\u2019s deeply ingrained at the political, organizational and personal level.<\/p>\n \u201cPublic health systems are commonly defined as \u2018all public, private, and voluntary entities that contribute to the delivery of essential public health services within a jurisdiction, \u201d says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>. This includes:<\/p>\n SOURCE: The CDC<\/em><\/p>\n Health Promotion Management<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Health promotion<\/a> is the science and art of helping people, organizations, and communities change lifestyle behaviors to move toward a state of improved health, resulting in decreases in chronic disease and health care costs.<\/p>\n University-level health promotion management programs focus on the development of managerial skills with knowledge in subjects such as exercise physiology, human biochemistry, behavioral psychology and nutrition. Students can pursue an emphasis in areas including:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Public Health Career Opportunities<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Virtually anyone within the broad spectrum of the health field could reap benefits from a public health degree program.<\/p>\n While a public health degree certainly can prove useful in private sector positions, it\u2019s particularly applicable in the nonprofit, government and medical sectors.<\/p>\n Health Promotion Management Job Opportunities<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n For students who foresee a career spent leading and educating people and groups to make better, fact-based decisions to improve their quality of life, a health promotion management (HPM) program often is the best choice. At American University in Washington, D.C., HPM alumni are impacting communities locally, nationally and globally at organizations such as:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Addressing Public Danger<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n The CDC Foundation calls the CDC<\/a>, \u201cour nation\u2019s premier public health agency.\u201d Most public health degree programs prepare students for careers that are in step with the CDC\u2019s mission<\/a>: \u201cCDC\u00a0works 24\/7<\/a>\u00a0to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are chronic or acute, curable or preventable, human error or deliberate attack, CDC fights disease and supports communities and citizens to do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n In other words, earning a degree in public health is an important step toward protecting people from a wide variety of health concerns.<\/p>\n Innovative Engagement Through Health Promotion Management<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n When American University started the first U.S. degree program combining the concepts of health and wellness with the principles of business and management, it put a new spin on public health. HPM students learn about everything from individual decision-making and corporate America to government policy in an effort to promote healthy behaviors and improve quality of life.<\/p>\n Whether serving in a Fortune 500 company\u2019s health and wellness department or as a leading decision-maker at a think-tank, an HPM graduate has the tools to improve health and well-being from the ground up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Advancements in science, technology and healthcare have made at least one thing crystal clear, it will take everyone\u2019s best efforts to improve health in communities all over the world. This far-flung realization has led to a wealth of career opportunities for people who are passionate about health. There are many exciting professional paths that center\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":757,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/college101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/college101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/college101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/college101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/757"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/college101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/college101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/college101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/college101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/college101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":13,"date":"2021-02-09T18:05:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T18:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/college101\/?p=13"},"modified":"2021-09-09T18:05:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T18:05:45","slug":"fostering-innovation-and-resilience-in-a-year-of-unknowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/college101\/2021\/02\/09\/fostering-innovation-and-resilience-in-a-year-of-unknowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Fostering Innovation and Resilience in a Year of Unknowns"},"content":{"rendered":" The end of a year is a time many of us take a moment to reflect on what we\u2019ve done or accomplished in the past year, and perhaps set some new goals, aspirations, or dreams for the upcoming twelve months. 2020 will be a year many of us will remember for a long, long time, not for good reasons, and for good reasons, wish we could forget.<\/p>\n I remember joking to myself and a few friends this time last year that I\u2019d like to take a Rip Van Winkle type of nap and wake up November 4th<\/sup> when what I was anticipating would be a nasty presidential campaign and election would be over. You know, stick my head in the sand to avoid all the toxic negativity until it was all over.<\/p>\n Now just imagine my fantasy self waking then and realizing how much my life and the world had changed in unimaginable ways that no one predicted or could have even dreamed of a year ago.\u00a0 Oh, what a year it has been! And the election arguing still isn\u2019t over! Makes you want to go right back to sleep.<\/p>\n It\u2019s been a year of devastating change and tragedy for so many all over the world. No one has been untouched by the events of this past year and some of us, who have survived so far, may never fully recover.<\/p>\n But what has also struck me is the amazing strength and resilience of people in facing an incredible, unexpected challenge that we were unable to anticipate or prepare for. We\u2019ve created whole new systems for interacting with others, sharing space (carefully), working, playing, learning, even presidential campaigning.<\/p>\n I have been incredibly impressed with how we at Key Executive Leadership Programs adapted to this new normal. In March we were told to begin working from home. We didn\u2019t know how long this new work from home policy would last and how it would impact our work delivering leadership programs to numerous government agencies (who were also moving to work from home).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Since then, in a manner of a few months, we moved from full in-person\/live instruction to completely delivering online classes and programs. How did we do that? We had no plan, or experience with online delivery of programs. But we needed to continue to deliver programming to our clients, so we needed to adapt and radically change our method of delivery in response to an incredible, unexpected situation.<\/p>\n I was so impressed with how the Key staff responded to the challenge, learned new skills, taught those skills to a bevy of faculty and classroom coaches in a short period of time so that our mission of delivering high quality leadership development programs continued. We were also incredibly supported by Key leadership in our efforts. In essence our Key leaders gave us the autonomy to develop new skills, practice and teach those new skills, and most importantly I believe, trusted us to deliver. At our recent Roger Jones Award Ceremony (on Zoom of course) during a panel discussion with the awardees, the awardees were discussing leadership excellence. Matthew<\/strong> Alessandrino<\/strong>, Assistant IG for Investigations with FDIC, talked about the current situation and what leaders could do enable their employees to be successful in their jobs.<\/p>\n Daniel<\/strong> Pink<\/strong> writes about this in his book, Drive<\/em>.\u00a0 He writes that if employees are paid fairly and therefore money is not an issue, that what motivates employees in work and life are three things: autonomy<\/strong> (our desire to be self-directed), mastery <\/strong>(our desire to get better at what we do \u2013 and truly care<\/em> about what we do), and purpose<\/strong> (that what we do has meaning and is important).<\/p>\n In my leadership classes I\u2019ve told my students the difference between leadership and management is your ability to affect change. Here was an example where our purpose was clear. We faced a challenge that allowed us in Key to demonstrate our mastery largely because we were given the autonomy to create a new learning paradigm for our clients.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t think we would have been any more successful in accomplishing that if we had had the luxury of planning for it. It\u2019s a huge credit to the Key staff for their mastery and our leadership for having the faith and trust in us to carry it out. I wonder if we could have accomplished what we have this year at Key if we had the luxury of planning for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The end of a year is a time many of us take a moment to reflect on what we\u2019ve done or accomplished in the past year, and perhaps set some new goals, aspirations, or dreams for the upcoming twelve months. 2020 will be a year many of us will remember for a long, long time,\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":757,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/college101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/college101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/college101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/college101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/757"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/college101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/college101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/college101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/college101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/college101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":16,"date":"2020-04-09T18:07:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T18:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/college101\/?p=16"},"modified":"2021-09-09T18:10:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T18:10:57","slug":"mindset-mindset-mindset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/college101\/2020\/04\/09\/mindset-mindset-mindset\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindset, Mindset, Mindset"},"content":{"rendered":" March 2020 will go down in the history books, hopefully, as lessons gained from the COVID-19 global pandemic that shook the world and touched every single person worldwide. A crisis so tragic, as of this writing, taking the lives of nearly 5000,000 people.<\/p>\n I say hopefully gained because a repeat of such a tragedy, be it in the realm of possibility, could again change individuals and societies, possibly in more significant ways we can\u2019t imagine.<\/p>\n Take a moment now to consider who we were as a society in February 2020.<\/p>\n For many of us, myself included, we have been able to work from home, a luxury for which I have gained untold gratitude. With the time gained from this new work environment, I have thought deeply about the still disproportionately affected. Especially those who have had and continue to go to work, regardless of the CDC\u2019s guidelines and the ever-looming uncertainty that will surely continue to shape our lives. This second statistic probably affects every one of us with a family member, friend, colleague, a friend of a colleague, your neighbor, bus driver, dry cleaner, or your Amazon delivery driver.<\/p>\n Then in May, the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis while in police custody, and the protests that followed, brought the juxtaposition of mass health and safety, people exercising their the First Amendment rights en masse, and the challenges of the political landscape.<\/p>\n Yes that\u2019s right folks, all of these events in an election year. I am not saying similar events have never occurred on this scale, but with the added pandemic crisis, it tends to redefine many of our previous notions.<\/p>\n So now my fellow professionals, how do we interact with our teams as we reconstitute back into our physical work environment?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n How do we digest the totality of what has occurred when presented with a new, uncertain environment, continue to build relationships, maintain and grow our self and social awareness, and yes, achieve the results?<\/p>\n Being mindful of what our employees and colleagues have experienced the past 3 months will ensure they feel invested and valued. Our mindset has enumerable impacts and is key in determining the level of success of our goals and remains one of the key capabilities we have as managers and leaders.<\/p>\n In this new and uncertain environment, tap into that personal courage to remain agile and open to new ways of thinking. Be there for those who need you. Engage with your teams in new ways while being an active listener. And as always, practice that continual learning every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 2020 will go down in the history books, hopefully, as lessons gained from the COVID-19 global pandemic that shook the world and touched every single person worldwide. A crisis so tragic, as of this writing, taking the lives of nearly 5000,000 people. 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Defining Public Health vs. Health Promotion Management<\/h2>\n
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Discovering the Right Career For You<\/h2>\n
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Emphasis on Care vs. Innovation in Education<\/h2>\n
\nI was going to focus this blog post on the Spring 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer update, where global trust in the government is up from 54% to 65% (essentially pre and post-current pandemic). But more sobering, the second update has to do with the flip side of government trust, the rise in societal fears for \u201cthose with less education, less money and fewer resources are bearing a disproportionate burden of the suffering, risk of illness and need to sacrifice in the pandemic, and more than half are very worried about long-term, COVID-related job loss.\u201d<\/p>\n