Career Practitioner Conversations with NCDA
Career Practitioner Conversations with NCDA
NCDA
Beyond Cultural Awareness: Charting the Course for Intercultural Competence in Career Services
35 minutes Posted May 12, 2026 at 1:00 pm.
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Daniel Pack hosts a conversation about intercultural competence in advising international students with Esther Ra and Vicky Lee. Vicky recounts an early negative career services experience that revealed advisors’ lack of understanding of international students’ nuanced needs, including immigration and cultural norms. The speakers emphasize cultural humility and relational advising and present the LBC framework—Launchpad, Bridge, Coach—as a scaffolded approach to culturally responsive career s...