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Skills
Perseverance
Perseverance is a skill that I really worked on during my time abroad. Not only with group excursions that pushed us, but with dealing with difficult situations in a foreign country and there was simply myself to handle them. This skill will most definitely be tapped into often as I forge ahead into my career.
Organization
Dublin is one of Ireland's largest cities and where I lived, where I attended University and where I worked were all on other sides of the cities. I had to quickly learn how to navigate the public transportation and organize my days accordingly.
Adaptability
Adaptability is a skill I have learned while studying abroad and with all my travels! To be successful in environments foreign to you, adapting to the situation is crucial. Being able to adapt to different perspectives when working on teams with international backgrounds can be the different between a successful and failing project. Even times when I had to adapt to 24 hour days with no sun, added to my adaptability skills. Each experience helps you realize that being flexible and approaching everything with a positive attitude can completely alter the experience.
Cultural Awareness
Throughout all my travels, cultural awareness as a skill was most definitely honed as it is so important to learn and understand about cultures as a tool to better understand communicating and becoming mindful of how easy it can be to infer incorrectly and take something that was meant as a positive, negatively due to not being culturally aware.
However, my experiences with the international scholars program and on campus cultural events opens up a completely different type of cultural awareness that often times is more subtle when you are in your native country. The importance of being culturally aware can dramatically enhance communications at home. Diverse teams, require all of us to hone our cultural awareness skills.