Essentially every time I look up someone in the news on LinkedIn, their LinkedIn page documents their international experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The rule is simple: to have achieved enough in your career that you will be mentioned in news reports, or in company alumni newsletters – literally in anything – you needed to have international experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I write this since I looked up the name of the first former employee listed in my former employer’s alumni newsletter. As an undergrad she had studied abroad for a year in Spain. Her career later progressed into being head of worldwide marketing, or sales, depending on the company. Clear international experience on display – and a successful career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I now estimate that 95% of those who I cross check have documented international experience on their LinkedIn resume page. This can take the form of study abroad, worked abroad, or having been born abroad and immigrated – or a combination of multiple international experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is no joke: 95%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Obviously, this varies by career sector and my bias is towards tech, where I made my career. 100% of my former managers and 100% of my former coworkers had international experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you do not have international experience then you should be making a plan to get that experience; this is not an option, it is mandatory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yet another example of the importance of international experience to one’s career trajectory. If you lack international experience, then make a plan to get that experience. International skills are critical in numerous professional careers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background","category-immigration","category-study-intern-abroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}