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Fortunately I have received
multiple opportunities to travel abroad for work and experience the work
culture there from my own eyes.
The most recent
international work experience for me was when I travelled to XYZ in 2015. I
have travelled to XYZ a few times before(2010, 2011, 2013), but this visit
was different because this time I went there for pure business understanding
rather than technical assignments as was the case in earlier visits. This visit
also gave me confidence to shift my role from technology to business analysis.
My earlier visits were equally fruitful for the technical work that was expected
of my role. In all these visits, which lasted a total of 5 to 6 months, I learnt
some of the important qualities of XYZ colleagues, such as adhering to
meeting times or following deadlines, taking ownership of one’s work without
need of supervisor’s push, and most importantly high number of women in the
workforce (almost 50%).
Prior to that, I travelled
to ABC from my previous employer in 2009. In this assignment,
being the only person representing my project, I performed the role of analyst,
developer, tester, documenter and held important business discussions with
customer. This assignment, lasting about 7-8 months, taught me to perform in
all roles that an employee at my role can be asked to do. Here I learnt several
important attributes of ABCian work culture, such as informal style of
communication in the workplace yet high commitment to work, socializing between
colleagues, and their multicultural ethos which make it easy for outsider to
gel.
I have been using the
learnings from my all international deputations into my daily work and plan to
continue doing so.
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