Question

International experience is valuable for mid-career individuals who aspire to higher positions and greater responsibility, but not for students seeking their first job beyond university. True False

Answer 1

Answer:

False

Explanation:

International experience is valuable both for mid-career individuals and for a first time job seeker. Advantages attached to international experience are valuable both to the individual and firm he works with.

International experience exposes one to a life outside the comfort zone and makes advanced skill acquisition necessary. This in itself, makes a worker with international experience have an edge over those who have only local experience as adaptation to a new system would have been mastered with international experience. These acquired skills could be of high relevance to the employer in improving productivity and efficiency in the workplace.

International experience also sharpens communication skills and creates the opportunity to establish international contacts and relationships which could be very valuable to an organisation.