Components

This program will equip you with the cross-cultural competencies and international skillset required in a well-rounded graduate with a skill set that extends well beyond the technicalities of your degree discipline.

Whether you are a student looking to work in Australia, planning to join a global organisation, or someone who hopes to gain work experience overseas, join this program to take the first step towards developing a truly global mindset!

The program is composed of 2 main strands, students are required to participate in all components to successfully complete the program:

  • 1. Mentee Training and Mentor Introduction

    This two part session will guide you through developing your Intercultural Skills, and then  you will meet your mentors and fellow group-members. Main training topics will include:

    • Different aspects of the local and global knowledge important for employment, including expectations of local and international employers, established workplace processes in local and international organizations, and hierarchical structure in local and international organisations
    • Intercultural resilience and mindfulness including cultural self-awareness and socio-linguistic awareness, openness and curiosity to different opinions, cultural sensitivities in work discussions and interviews, and listening and observing skills.

    Details of Training Session

    Thursday 25 July 2024 

    Section 1 - 1:00PM - 5:00PM

    Project Global Citizen will deliver a session to students participating in the Intercultural Career Mentoring Program. The session is designed to create an uplift in the benefits of any mentoring process by increasing both levels of cultural awareness and specific intercultural skills.

    During the session participants will create their own personal cultural profile to highlight how their own cultural background influences many common behaviours.

    From here they will create templates for dealing respectfully with people whose cultural background differs from their own.

    The session integrates activities designed to clearly demonstrate the differences that are usually unconsciously disregarded or assumed to be non-existent.

    Direct outcomes for participants of this session are:

    • To be able to identify their own personal cultural orientation.
    • To be able to critically analyse any intercultural situation.
    • To correctly use templates that assist mentees in applying their intercultural skills until these skills become fully integrated in a mentee’s behaviour.
    • To understand when cultural differences may not require a modification in behaviour.

    As indirect outcomes of this training, participants will have a better understanding of the intercultural barriers to employment and how to mitigate risk factors as well as increased confidence in dealing with people from an unfamiliar background.

    Thursday 25 July 2024

    Section 2 - 6:00PM - 8:30PM

    Intercultural Career Mentoring Workshop. In this component you will meet your mentors and fellow mentees. The mentors and mentees will be from various fields of Engineering and IT as well as various different cultural backgrounds, however have similar goals to achieve from the program. You will have the opportunity to share experiences and advice, connect and learn from each other.

    Following the Group Mentoring Workshop, should the members of your mentoring group be interested, you are welcome to continue your mentoring conversation via online platforms.

  • 2. Networking Night

    Thursday, 12 September 2024

    6:00PM - 8:30PM

    The final event of this program will be the Networking Night. Here you will be invited to come along, network and connect with all the participants of the program. An opportunity to build connections and further your professional partnerships whilst in real time putting your learning from the program to practice, as well as to build connections with the other mentors and students in the program who aren't in your immediate group. This is a great opportunity to learn more from the mentors about the industries in which they are working - industries you may move in to following graduation.