20.2.2008
Finishing school for foreign students
Only a few years ago officials at Arizona State University officials noticed an
unsettling trend: Foreign-born graduates of the school's MBA program
were getting fewer job offers and making less money than their
U.S.-born counterparts.
The reason was not academics. Students raised in other countries often had cultural problems:
Making small talk, dressing appropriately and other important factors in a workplace were new and foreign to them.
That's
why the university launched a type of finishing school for its
full-time foreign MBA student where they earn things such as correct posture in a job
interview, appropriate ways to interrupt and even how to shake hands.
"Now, they're getting slightly higher salaries than the U.S. students,"
said Gerry Keim, associate dean at Arizona State's W.P. Carey School of
Business.
Source: Cincinnati Enquirer |
