Be a Global-Ready Graduate
What Does Being Global Mean?
- A mindset that appreciates and respects other cultures
- Having experience in multicultural environments either abroad or in your home country
- Understanding and knowledge of what's happening around the world
- Being able to communicate effectively across cultural and linguistic borders
How to Gain Global Competence
- Join international or cross-cultural student organizations. Go to UBLinked
for club listings. - Build relationships with international students on campus
- Learn another language
- Use the languages you already have studied or have learned
- Volunteer or intern at culturally based organizations
- Create an internship with an international focus
- Choose courses that will increase your global awareness
- Obtain your Global Competency Certificate from UB's Intercultural & Diversity Center
- Build international themes into your class assignments
- Join UB's Global Perspectives Academy
- Attend cultural events such as UB International Week held each November
- Watch news broadcasts from other countries or visit their websites
- Connect with UB alumni living in other countries through LinkedIn or UB Career Services Mentor Program (located in BullsEye)
- Study Abroad
- build relationships with others abroad and immerse yourself in another culture
- Studying Abroad Travel Guide
- Intern or work abroad - learn about your field in a global context
- Travel abroad and experience other cultures
Identify Your Global Competencies
- In what languages are you fluent?
- How many countries have you lived in? Worked in? Visited?
- Do you have a professional network in other countries?
- What cultures and nationalities have you experienced?
- Are you familiar with the predominant business practices in more than one country?
- Do you follow the news from other countries regularly?
Examples of Global Competencies
- Empathy and Respect for Other Cultures
- Understanding of Your Individual Impact on the World
- Open-mindedness
- Recognition of Your Biases Based on Culture and Experience
- Cultural Awareness and Understanding Cultural Values
- Contextual Global Knowledge from History and Geography
- Ability to Reduce Prejudices
- Recognition of Commonalities of the Human Condition
- Interacting Effectively with People Who Hold Different Interests, Values or Perspectives
- Experience with Other Cultures
- Ability to Collaborate
- Personal Ethics
- Aptitude for Critical Thinking and Research
- Linguistic Appreciation
- Communicating Ideas in a Manner that Gains Acceptance/Agreement
- Ability to Engage
- Ability to Navigate Conflict Effectively
- Ability to Apply Information to New or Broader Contexts
- Ability to Work as Part of a Team
- Aptitude for Creative Problem Solving
- Identifying Social and Political Implications of Decisions
Demonstrate Global Competencies in Your Job Search
- Incorporate the term 'global competencies' into your job search vocabulary, for use on resumes, cover letters, and interviews
- Offer employers examples describing your global skills
- Highlight cross cultural experiences you gained at UB or through work/study/travel abroad
- Use LinkedIn and other social media to connect with individuals around the world who can assist with your global job search
- Take advantage of Career Service's Mentor Program (located in BullsEye) to network with UB alumni who have had global experience
- Use Career Services' InterviewStream (located in BullsEye under Resource Library) to practice answering employers' questions incorporating your global competencies
- Utilize print and online global job search resources such as GoingGlobal (located in BullsEye under Resource Library) and the Big Guide to Living and Working Overseas (located in the UB Career Services Resource Library.
