Part of NAFSA's vision for its role in international education includes Global Workforce Development. As their site states, NAFSA's Board recognized "mounting evidence of the compelling forces, permeating every discipline within the academy, that call for greater international competencies in preparing students for leadership roles in a global future."

As part of that goal, NAFSA sponsored a webinar that included Martin Tillman as one of the presenters. You can find his article, "The Right Tool For the Job" at NAFSA's website.

In this article, Tillman explores some of the reasons that employers value education abroad experience, the partnerships that exist between businesses and educational institutions, and the way that students can market their experiences abroad to employers. He points out that the "capability to interpret the value of an education abroad experience to an employer is made easier if a students' decision to go abroad is linked to their career goals." This present a challenge to study abroad advisers to help students link their study abroad choices to their career goals before they ever leave campus.

Martin Tillman is associate director of the Office of Career Services at The John Hopkins University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. You can download "The Right Tool for the Job" from NAFSA's website.

In addition to that article, Tillman has also published two separate volumes available on the AIFS website on the impact of study abroad on career development.