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- 2. In the United Kingdom, ______ service is not listed, and there is no personal information.
- 4. Résumés in _____ begin with personal information (name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, nationality, date of birth, and gender).
- 8. Poor service of both mail and telephone systems occurs during the _______ seasons that a number of countries experience.
- 12. Since education is very important in ______, include awards, courses, and training you have received.
- 13. In China, duties and responsibilities are described using _____ verbs.
- 14. Use short, simple _______.
- 15. In the United States, ending negative messages on a positive note is important, although the ________ do not consider this important.
- 16. Latin Americas do not use ______; they avoid the negative news completely, feeling it is discourteous to bring bad news.
- 18. _____ is one of the best ways to obtain a position in the United States.
- 20. Women writing to men _______ must be very careful about the tone and word choice.
- 22. The preferred style in the United States are the block and ________ block.
- 23. Be generous with ________.
- 26. When using e-mail internationally, you should use the same writing techniques you use for a(n) ________.
- 27. The ______ try to present negative news in a positive manner, a quality that has sometimes cause a U.S. counterpart to feel that the person was deceitful.
- 28. It is difficult to get a long-term work visa in ______; however short visits for academic study or employment are possible.
- 29. The _______ of the inside address may vary.
Down
- 1. Avoid ______ on cultural differences.
- 3. In The Netherlands, if you are seriously considered for a position, school grades and letters of ______ will be requested later.
- 5. Because _______ is used for most international written messages, making these messages as clear as possible is important.
- 6. The tone and writing style of __________ from foreign countries are usually more formal and traditional than that typically used by U.S. companies.
- 7. A _____ résumé is a complete dossier of the candidate.
- 9. The ______ should be written as you would write a letter.
- 10. In order to use international English, three cultural factors are important: an understanding of business communication in the other culture, an idea of how business communication is taught in the other culture, and a knowledge that ________errors are more difficult than language errors for people in another culture to discern.
- 11. The _________ or ethnocentrism that so many U.S. people display in their writing to other cultures can easily be tempered with knowledge of the person to whom they are writing.
- 17. A simple résumé should be ______ in Japanese.
- 19. _______ strategies differ when a group of Dutch businesspeople use their native language or use English.
- 21. use the _______ approach for bad-news messages.
- 24. Job applicants in _____ are advised to use reverse chronological order when listing information related to work experience and education.
- 25. ______ has many trade, professional, and social networking organizations that can help with finding a position.