What Your COIL Experience Provides for You
Participating in COIL provides many benefits, including:
- expanded cultural knowledge and improved intercultural competency
- invaluable job skills (see below)
- teamwork opportunities
Articulating COIL Experiences on Your Resume
Key Phrases to Keep in Mind
Your COIL collaboration can set you apart from others as you apply for a job or advance your career. Consider the following phrases to help you articulate your COIL experiences on your resume:
- Increased cultural competence
- Developed intercultural communication skills
- Advanced communication skills through interaction with foreign college students
- Improvised with nonverbal and verbal cues to overcome communication and language barriers
- Cultivated patience and understanding with non-native English speakers
- Expanded second-language abilities
- Expanded flexibility and openness to risk-taking
- Adapted to unanticipated situations and created new plans in response to unexpected events due to periodic mishaps and unexpected events
- Participated fully in professor’s first-ever COIL project for the course (or newly established COIL program at my college )
- Engaged in innovative learning opportunity between U.S. and international partners
- Exercised responsibility in project planning
- Developed solutions with teammates to maximize project effectiveness
- Collaborated with foreign peers to stay on task
- Managed international time difference to maximize efficiency in group project
- Increased proficiency in social media and online platforms for use in course-based project
- Improved technology and social media skills
- Developed global netiquette skills
- Developed professional approach to using social media for team project