Directorate of Academic and Student Affairs
Mark Turnbull
Careers Counsellor
Oxford Brookes University
Careers Centre
EXCHANGE
Recruitment | Culture | Language | Social
Directorate of Academic and Student Affairs
EXCHANGE: Today’s agenda
• Introduction
• Quiz
• The Exchange Programme
• Design
• Delivery
• Evaluation
• Questions
Directorate of Academic and Student Affairs
EXCHANGE: Introduction
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Pilot: International students
Not an expert
Developed based on some research
Put myself in their place
Used own experience of teaching IS
Directorate of Academic and Student Affairs
EXCHANGE: Quiz
1)
When dining with a group of co-workers in a restaurant in Japan, you pour yourself a
glass of beer, is this seen as:
i. Bad etiquette, as you should also pour your neighbour’s beer?
ii. Good etiquette, as getting drunk is the expected thing to do?
iii. Bad etiquette, as pouring your own beer is rude?
2)
Name three political parties in India
3)
In Thailand it is normal for a person to include their family details on their CV
including parents’ employment:
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True? Or
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False?
4)
What do you think the following Chinese proverbs mean:
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“Whoever tied the knot on the bell is the one to untie it”
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“If you don't go into the cave of the tiger, how are you going to get its cub?”
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“Hold on to the blue mountain, there'll be no shortage of faggots for fire”.
Directorate of Academic and Student Affairs
EXCHANGE: Quiz
1)
When dining with a group of co-workers in a restaurant in Japan, you pour yourself a
glass of beer, is this seen as:
i. Bad etiquette, as you should also pour your neighbour’s beer?
ii. Good etiquette, as getting drunk is the expected thing to do?
iii. Bad etiquette, as pouring your own beer is rude?
2)
Name three political parties in India
3)
In Thailand it is normal for a person to include their family details on their CV
including parents’ employment:
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True? Or
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False?
4)
What do you think the following Chinese proverbs mean:
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“Whoever tied the knot on the bell is the one to untie it”
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“If you don't go into the cave of the tiger, how are you going to get its cub?”
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“Hold on to the blue mountain, there'll be no shortage of faggots for fire”.
Directorate of Academic and Student Affairs
EXCHANGE: Audience
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Open up or restrict?
HTLM
EFL teacher
2 year Masters
Placement - experiencing recruitment process
Allowed for tracking
126 IS over year, average of 14 per workshop
Chinese, Indian, Taiwanese, Japanese, Portuguese,
Turkish, Thai, South Korean, Brazilian.
Directorate of Academic and Student Affairs
EXCHANGE: Design
Vocabulary
Interactive
Buddies
Each workshop split into three areas:
1) Careers education
2) EFL
3) Culture
Directorate of Academic and Student Affairs
EXCHANGE: Careers Education
“Traditional” workshops:
Job Hunting and
Networking
CV and CL
Application forms
Interview Skills
Assessment Centres
Mock Assessment Centre
“New” workshops:
Induction
Cultural Awareness
Diversity
Evaluation and Quiz
Directorate of Academic and Student Affairs
EXCHANGE: Design – EFL techniques
• Gap fill
• CV and CLs
• Create letter from sample paragraphs.
• CV and CLs
• Video analysis
• Job hunting and networking
• Role play – following up a lead
• Job hunting and networking
• Video recording
• Interviews
Directorate of Academic and Student Affairs
EXCHANGE: Design – Culture
• Cultural Awareness
• Dos and Don’ts
• Interview skills
• Assessment Centres
• Regional Accents
• Christmas
• Diversity
• Discrimination legal framework
Directorate of Academic and Student Affairs
EXCHANGE: Buddy scheme
Home students
Social activities
Pass on their own experience
Encourage IS to break away
Encourage IS to speak English
Encourage IS to explore UK culture
Directorate of Academic and Student Affairs
EXCHANGE: Worked well & not worked well
Good
• Interactive activities
• esp interview skills
and group
discussion
• Team teaching
• Workshop structure
• Time to explain
Bad
• Culture – hit and miss
• Buddies
Directorate of Academic and Student Affairs
EXCHANGE: Do differently
More time
More structure for Culture
e.g. organisational structure, gender, religion, etc
Pay buddies
Link in with employers
Audio recording
Test knowledge – before and after
Directorate of Academic and Student Affairs
EXCHANGE: Tracking
• 50% have jobs
• Will meet some of them in their jobs
• Identify how the programme helped them
Directorate of Academic and Student Affairs
EXCHANGE: Conclusion
• Not assume that IS have the same learning style as
the teaching style in their own country
Directorate of Academic and Student Affairs
EXCHANGE:
Any Questions?
Directorate of Academic and Student Affairs
CAREERS SERVICE
• CONTACT:
Mark Turnbull
[email protected]
01865 484674
www.brookes.ac.uk/careers
Directorate of Academic and Student Affairs
Directorate of Academic and Student Affairs
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Mark Turnbull