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Advantages of foreign exchange experience


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Adam Cooper MA in International Relations, now a Competitive Price Analyst at Centrica

"The major benefit of my post-grad degree and by going off and doing a foreign exchange in Iran was that on the recruitment process it helped in that it made me very distinct from the general stream.

"In actual work I suppose a lot of the soft skills I developed, it’s a bit hard to quantify but the networking, communicating across cultures and communicating when there’s linguistic barriers and things like that and just mental resilience when confronted with difficult situations."

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