Should Students Study and Work Abroad
TRUONG LAN
Topic: In the context of globalization, should college students have a few years learning and working abroad?
As the world is opening and on-going globalized, many people assume that a few years learning and working abroad is really beneficial to students, enhancing their employment opportunities, having themselves developed and giving them intercultural experience. Personally, I am not an exception to this.
First, college students learning or working abroad are more likely to be employable in big companies. As a researcher for a head-hunting company, I know that résumes featured by experience of learning or working abroad are more highly focused and prior compared to those without such experience. In addition, some certain big or foreign companies tend to recruit those who have high level of English, along with their professional knowledge. In this way, people often presume that students studying abroad must possess high English skills as they have a favorable environment to learn English.
More importantly, spending several years living abroad contributes to the self-development of students. As in another country without much relatives or parents beside, students have to manage everything on their own. This may be quite challenging, but also an opportunity for them to discover new strengths and abilities, and solve new problems. They may face situations that are wholly unfamiliar to them, and learn to adapt and respond in effective ways.
Interestingly, learning or working abroad afford students a chance to travel, make friends around the world, and experience multiple new cultures. Although it is not easy to get through culture shocks, immerging in new cultures may give students new ideas, and perspectives about themselves as well as their own culture. The experience may enable students to see their own culture through the eyes of someone else, or to embrace new concepts, refreshing their life view when returning their homeland.
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Topic: In the context of globalization, should college students have a few years learning and working abroad?
As the world is opening and on-going globalized, many people assume that a few years learning and working abroad is really beneficial to students, enhancing their employment opportunities, having themselves developed and giving them intercultural experience. Personally, I am not an exception to this.
First, college students learning or working abroad are more likely to be employable in big companies. As a researcher for a head-hunting company, I know that résumes featured by experience of learning or working abroad are more highly focused and prior compared to those without such experience. In addition, some certain big or foreign companies tend to recruit those who have high level of English, along with their professional knowledge. In this way, people often presume that students studying abroad must possess high English skills as they have a favorable environment to learn English.
More importantly, spending several years living abroad contributes to the self-development of students. As in another country without much relatives or parents beside, students have to manage everything on their own. This may be quite challenging, but also an opportunity for them to discover new strengths and abilities, and solve new problems. They may face situations that are wholly unfamiliar to them, and learn to adapt and respond in effective ways.
Interestingly, learning or working abroad afford students a chance to travel, make friends around the world, and experience multiple new cultures. Although it is not easy to get through culture shocks, immerging in new cultures may give students new ideas, and perspectives about themselves as well as their own culture. The experience may enable students to see their own culture through the eyes of someone else, or to embrace new concepts, refreshing their life view when returning their homeland.
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