Part 1:Make a current intercultural skills inventory. The Wheel of Intercultural Skills can help you identify the specific skills you have on offer interculturally. Use the template below to answer all the questions!

Step 1: Write down (in text) the intercultural experiences you have had already that contribute to your expertise in the following areas

1.Formal education: What is your formal training and education? What relevant courses have you taken or subjects have you studied that can be linked to intercultural competence? How can you demonstrate your understanding of the research and theories in the intercultural field?

2.Life experience: What intercultural experiences have already shaped you and will constitute your own experiences working across cultures later, such as time living abroad, working in holidays abroad, being in an intercultural relationship, having intercultural friendships, having a diverse cultural background, daily intercultural interactions

3.Work experience (if any): What is your relevant experience working with people from other cultures, working in different sectors? (This could also be experience through volunteering or in summer jobs.)

4.Personal qualities: What talents and strengths do you have that help you walk the talk and demonstrate skills you need interculturally, what character traits help you most?

5.Application areas: What are the topics and areas that interest you most and that you have experience with interculturally(e.g. working in team, studying, gaming, leading people, practising sports, youth movement...)

6.Methods skills: What methods and approaches will you use to carry out future intercultural work, which ones have you already used(e.g. teambuilding, training and helping other people, advising, socialing, helping, negotiating,) List associations you belong to or certificates you have received, multicultural interest groups you belong to..

Once you have completed a Skills inventory for the Wheel of Intercultural skills, you can share and compare your profile with others. You can use the wheel to help you when you write or update your resume or BIO. It will help you present your intercultural skills.

Step 2: Rate Your Current Skills level What score would you give your current skills level in each of the 6 areas? Mark your level of expertise (mind: a score of 6 will be expert, and can only be achieved after an entire career) 1 being low and 6 being high. Colour in the levels for each of the areas. For each of the scores, explain in text why you give yourself this score:

Formal education:

Life experience:

Work experience:

Personal qualities:

Application areas:

Methods:.

Step 3: Visualize step 1 and 2 in the wheel of intercultural skills. In the template you find an empty wheel of intercultural skills. You can print the wheel, add all the information, then scan it or take a picture of it and include the .jpg in the template. Leave out the empty one.

Part 2: Skills for an intercultural job. Look at online job ads for a specific job, role or profession (probably an international job) that calls for intercultural skills. A job abroad or a job advertisement of an English company is not what we stress here: it has to be a job for which you will need intercultural skills! Look at the job ad, map what types of experiences, qualifications, traits and expertise you believe would prepare someone for this role.

Step 1: Provide the link to the job advertisement(posting) Provide the link to the job advertisement in the template.

Step 2: Add a screenshot of the job advertisement. Add a screenshot of the job ad in the template.

Step 3: Skills profile Write down in sentences. what you learnt from the job ad and anything else you think is needed to do this intercultural job well.

Step 4:Compare with your own current skills inventory. Answer the following questions (in sentences) to compare the skills profile of this intercultural job with your own current skills inventory(part 1)

1.As you mapped these skills, were there some that you believe are more important for this role than others?

2.What would you consider to be the minimum type of experience you need in each of these areas for the role/job to qualify someone to apply for this position?

3.How does this list of needed skills compare to your own skills in the Current skills inventory? What similarities and differences do you notice between your current skills and this new job profile?

Part 3: Action plan(focus on further development of cultural skills)

Step 1: Brainstorm

Spend a few minutes brainstorming all the ways you can further develop in each area. Write down your ideas for each area of the wheel(in bullets). Be creative. Consider traditional and unconventional ways in which you can develop skills. Seek the input of other people for additional ideas.

Step 2: Compare Focus in on the career that you are studying for. In which areas do you have the greatest skills gap between your experience in Intercultural Communication and the experience needed for a job in your line of work(the job your studies prepare you for). How will you need ICC for a job in line with your studies?

Step 3: Evaluate Now return to your list of brainstormed development opportunities. Ask yourself:

1.Which of these will help me advance the most in the field? (Mark them with a star)

2.Which of these can I realistically act on within the next 5 years? (Mark them with a check mark )

Step 4: Make an action plan Make an action plan for your development in ICC within the next 3 years. Write down what you will do (in bullets). Dont give general statements but concrete, practical steps.

Step 5: Visualize your action plan In the template you find an empty wheel of intercultural skills. You can print the wheel, add all the information, then scan it or take a picture of it and include the .jpg below. Leave out the empty one. Use this below Template

Use this below template

Part 1: current intercultural skills

1)Write down (in text) the intercultural experiences you have had that contribute to your expertise in the following areas:

Formal education:

Life experience:

Work experience (if any):

Personal qualities:

Application areas:

Methods skills:

2)Rate your current skills level in each of the 6 areas and explain why you give yourself this score (in text).

Formal education

Life experience:

Work experience:

Personal qualities

Application areas:

Methods skills

3) Visualize step 1 and 2 in the wheel of intercultural skills.(You can print the wheel, add all the information, then scan it or take a picture of it and include the .jpg below. Leave out the empty one.)

Part 2: skills for an intercultural job

1)Provide the link to your online job advertisement:

2)Add a screenshot of your job advertisement that calls for intercultural skills:

3)Write down (in sentences) what you learnt from the job advertisement and anything else you think is needed to do the job well.

4)Compare with your own current skills inventory. Answer the following discussion questions(in sentences)As you mapped these skills, were there some that you believe are more important for this job than others.? What would you consider to be the minimum type of experience you need in each of these areas for the role/job to qualify someone to apply for this position?

How does this list of needed skills compare to your own skills in the current skills inventory? What similarities and differences do you notice between your current skills and this new job profile?

Part 3: action plan

1)Brainstorm: write down your ideas for each area of the wheel(in bullets)

Formal education

Life experience:

Work experience:

Personal qualities

Application areas:

Methods skills

2)Compare: In which areas do you have the greatest skills gap between your experience in ICC and the experience needed for a job in your line of work (the job your studies prepare you for). How will you need ICC for a job in line with your studies?

Write down in bullets.

3) Evaluate: return to your list of brainstormed development opportunities and evaluate them. Copy them and ask yourself . Which of these will help me advance the most in the field? (Mark them with a star)Which of these can I realistically act on within the next 5 years? (Mark them with a check mark )

Formal education

Life experience:

Work experience:

Personal qualities

Application areas:

Methods skills

4)Action plan: make an action plan for your development in ICC within the next 3 years. Write down what you will do (in bullets). Dont give general statements but concrete, practical steps.4)Visualize your action plan(You can print the wheel, add all the information, then scan it or take a picture of it and include the .jpg below. Leave out the empty one.)