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 inclusive and equity-minded decisions.
- Actively contributing to inclusive and equitable practices that influence individual and systemic change.
- Advocating for inclusion, equitable practices, justice, and empowerment for historically marginalized communities.
- Seeking global cross-cultural interactions and experiences that enhance one’s understanding of people from different demographic groups, and lead to personal growth.
- Keeping an open mind to diverse ideas and new ways of thinking.
- Identifying resources and eliminating barriers resulting from individual and systemic racism, inequities, and biases.
Where to build intercultural knowledge skills as a student:
- Cultural Center programs
- Student organizations
- Volunteer LSU
- Resident Assistant /Ambassador roles/Student Government
- Customer service positions
- Class projects
- Service Learning courses
- Student exchange programs
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 do you ensure that a client or colleague’s opinions are heard and valued during a discussion?
How to put intercultural knowledge skills on your resume:
- Led a team of 10 diverse students in developing and implementing a diversity and inclusion training program for the university community.
- Organized and facilitated a series of workshops on intercultural awareness and communication for my sorority’s membership.
- 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 diverse cultures of students living in the East Campus Apartments on campus.
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