How to win the interview and get the job, even if you are new to the country
Let me tell you about my friend Mary. She is a very qualified accountant from Cameroon and has her CPA designation – that puts her at the highest level of qualified accountants in Canada. For almost two years she has been single-mindedly trying to find work in...
8 Social Assumptions and What To Do About Them
8 Social Assumptions and What To Do About Them Are your social assumptions about people’s motivations accurate? Have you noticed yourself or others making any of these kinds of statements? Engaging in comm skills training can help you challenge these assumptions and...
Basic cultural themes that affect the workplace: Theme #1 speech patterns
Every piece of communication shared requires a sender and a receiver – someone to send the message and someone to receive it. Inevitably, there exists a space between the sender and the receiver where interpretation of the message occurs. Culture and...
Basic cultural themes that affect the workplace: Theme #2 hierarchy
In the last post I spoke about how speech and silence are interpreted differently across cultures and then considered ways to use this knowledge to improve cross-cultural communication. Let’s look deeper. When there are differences between how people communicate...
“Three cups of tea”: The principle behind building your network and getting results
Yes, you do need to network! In some countries people are introduced or placed by friends and family into jobs or brought into a business. In other countries, graduates find their first jobs because they are automatically placed by an educational institution,...
