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. How do you plan to adapt to the working environment and culture abroad?
How do you plan to adapt to the working environment and culture abroad?
Question Intent
When asking this question, the employer is in fact asking:
Do you have the maturity and understanding of how different life will be outside of Canada? Have you given going international sufficient consideration?
Answer Tips
You may want to show your maturity and preparation by pulling your answers from previous experiences, be it adapting to another culture while traveling, adapting to life in a new city, or adapting to the pressures of university. Examples of challenges you faced and how you personally adapted to overcome them and succeed are excellent evidence of your maturaity. Moreoever, by speculating on what challenges you anticipate facing while abroad, you allow yourself the chance to present both your willingness to encounter these challenges and the ways in which you will deal with them.
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