What next?

1. Visit your Careers Service.

How your Careers Service can help:

• help you find work experience or voluntary placements (‘How Do I Find Work?)
• mock interviews (‘How do I Get a Job Offer?)
• skills workshops - e.g., interviewing, business skills, presentation skills
• explore with you and suggest ways to 'Get Involved!'

What your Careers Service won't do:

• Make assumptions about you or your cultural background
• Provide language instruction
• Act as a spell-checker and grammar checker on your CV—they can advise you on what makes an effective CV, but writing it is entirely up to you

2. Read more about Scotland

Find out more about what it is like to live, work and study here. Discover its history, society, culture and people.

Some useful print resources are listed below. The list is not comprehensive, but it will provide you with the basic information you need to be prepared and feel more confident about living, studying and working in Scotland :

• Culture Shock! Scotland by Jamie Grant
• Live and Work in Scotland by Nicola Taylor
• Culture Shock! Britain : A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette by Terry Tan
• Living and working in Britain by David Hampshire

There are also several publications which address specifically the challenges of working in a different culture or working effectively with people from a range of cultures different from you own. Some of these are:

• Kiss, Bow or Shake Hands: How to Do Business in Sixty Countries by Terri Morrison and Wayne A. Conway
• Do's and Taboos Around the World by Roger Axtell
• Mind your Manners: Managing Business Culture in a Global Europe by John Mole

Literature, fiction as well as non-fiction, is also a good way to find out more about life in Scotland . This is by no means a complete list of books about Scotland, but hopefully this short list will inspire you to find other books that interest you:

• Scotland: A Short History by Christopher Harvie ( Scotland from prehistory to the present)
• Modern Scotland: The History of a Society 1914-2000 by Richard Finley (Just what the title says…)
• Being Scottish: Personal Reflections on Scottish Identity Today edited by Tom Devine and Paddy Logue (100 essays, mostly from Scots, but including some international views, about the meaning of ‘being Scottish')
• Scottish Customs from the Cradle to the Grave by Margaret Bennett (A history of Scottish social customs over the past 400 years)

3. Take the initiative!

Visit www.visitscotland.com to find an event or activity you would like to see or take part in or find a place you would like to visit—and do it!