What experience do you have working in a culturally diverse environment?
One of the NSA's core values is centered on ensuring that every member of their workforce feels respected, included, and valued for their perspectives, experience, and skills, regardless of their diversity. Discuss with your interviewer any experience you have working in an inclusive and culturally diverse environment. If you've had any formal training in diversity and inclusion, share that experience.
"I had the privilege of growing up in a very culturally diverse neighborhood, and many of my family members are engaged in diverse relationships, and live unconventional lifestyles. I come from a very broad-minded upbringing. To me, diversity spans culture, gender, identity, and so much more. I am very sensitive to others and respectful of their cultures, pronouns, and dietary restrictions. So, I am no different in my professional life, except in that I would not choose to pursue a career with an organization that lacked diversity."
"At NSA, we enrich ourselves and our mission by working together, not in spite of differences, but because of them. Success happens when we rely on a diversity of skills and embrace the vast range of experience and perspectives that results from a workforce composed of a variety of backgrounds, including race, cultures, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientation, age, and ability. Building and maintaining a culture of inclusion, fairness, equity, and equality, which allows every employee the opportunity to have a positive impact on the Agency's mission to protect America and its citizens."
Their diversity, equality, and inclusion agency have defined additional values that express their identity "as an organization and inform the way that we treat each other and interact with our partners and the public. Collaboration: working with an individual or group to achieve a common goal. Communication: two-way process of reaching mutual understanding, in which participants not only exchange information, news, ideas and feelings but also create and share meaning. Competence: ability to do something successfully and efficiently. Courage: acting in accordance with one's beliefs, especially in spite of criticism. Fairness: the state, condition, or quality of being free from bias or injustice; giving as much advantage, consideration, or latitude to one party as it is given to another. Professionalism: the skill, good judgment, and polite behavior that is expected from a person who is trained to do a job well. Trust: relying on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of an individual or group."
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