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Unravel the World

Welcome to Knowledge MustKnowledge Must is a leading intercultural solutions provider that assists students, professionals, and organisations to successfully cross cultural boundaries, mainly between East Asia, South Asia, and the Western world. Unlike other solutions in the market, we offer complete service packages with our five company divisions: Career Must, Language Must, Training Must, Travel Must, and Culture Must. Starting with career counselling, we provide study and work experience, language immersion, culture-specific and process-oriented training, individualised travel arrangements, and intercultural events, in order to fully equip our clients to work more effectively across a multitude of cultures.

Our team of highly qualified experts has the knowledge, experience, diversity, and passion to provide you with the best customised solutions to achieve your individual objectives. We at Knowledge Must are genuine cultural immersion specialists. We aim at full cultural fluency, knowing what to do when, where, and why. What others consider as cultural gaps we understand as opportunities to learn and grow.

We help individuals as well as organisations to grow to their full potential. The unique chance to immerse yourself in the daily routine of another culture opens totally new professional and personal perspectives, and helps you to pursue your goals in life. Accordingly, we provide professional and creative intercultural solutions to help organisations achieve their particular mission and to drive through internationalisation strategies in a cost-effective way. At Knowledge Must we understand that embracing diverse ideas, creating diverse opportunities, and developing diverse partnerships will positively impact the communities that we engage. The synergies generated when people of diverse cultures collaborate are truly borderless. Join hands with us! Unravel the World!

With our division Career Must, we at Knowledge Must assist students and professionals to build an international career and provide organisations with the best in career and Human Resources solutions. Career Must's platform directly interlinks requirements to select highly qualified personnel for organisations and rewarding work prospects for outstanding job seekers. We help to bring the right people together, even across the largest cultural gaps, and handle the ensuing complexities in an effective and efficient manner.

Solutions for Individuals: In the light of increasing globalisation, an ever rising number of people experienced in working across cultures is sought after. To gather this experience, more and more individuals decide to learn other languages, travel abroad, and work in other countries. We offer you all these opportunities and more. We invite you to get in touch with us to learn more about our Career Solutions for Individuals, whether it be a thorough Career Counselling or Study Abroad programme. At Career Must we also arrange outstanding internships. We broaden your internship choices by locating exceptional internships, securing positions, and organising all of the logistics involved, such as arranging housing and transport.

Solutions for Organisations: In today’s environment of increasing global diversity and cross-border mobility of people, organisations encounter ever new challenges. Managing a global workforce requires heightened awareness, in-depth knowledge, and innovative leadership. Many organisations are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills. Since talent will never catch up with its demand, we supply you our knowledge, resources, and experience to meet your HR needs. Please contact us to learn how we locate, assess, and develop the right talent for your organisation. Unlock Your Potential!

With our division Language Must, we at Knowledge Must offer the best in language teaching. Whether you are working or studying abroad, travelling for business, or sending your employees on an expatriate assignment, effectively crossing cultural boundaries requires a considerable level of language proficiency. Students, professionals, and organisations alike benefit from the Language Must Method of language training: systematic, experiential, and enjoyable learning utilising the most advanced teaching approaches and the most authentic cultural content. We equip you with the tools to effectively communicate with people from other cultures.

Our experts have designed well proven and tested training modules that are most suited for real-life applications and that are adjusted to the needs of each of our clients. We offer a comprehensive range of language courses on an individual or small group basis. Our flexible starting dates and programme lengths allow you to take classes anytime throughout the year, from less than a week to more than twelve months. We currently focus on teaching three core languages for the cultural regions we are active in: Chinese, German, and Hindustani / Hindi / Urdu.

We consider language to be the key to cultural immersion. If you want to understand the nuances of another culture, there is no way around learning its language. And as you learn a new language, you will discover new people to talk to, new places to explore, and a new appreciation for a culture that you can now experience more fully. A new language opens a new world of opportunities. Being able to get your message across in the language of your destination allows you to transition more comfortably to your new host community and avoid misunderstandings. Language Must will enable you to speak more fluently and confidently regardless of the set and setting. Express Yourself!

With our division Training Must, we at Knowledge Must offer a range of flexible and effective intercultural training solutions for students, professionals, and organisations worldwide that are both practicable and tailored to each particular cultural challenge. In today’s increasingly smaller world, understanding the ways of other peoples' cultures is an essential. From process-oriented to culture-specific competencies, Training Must instils in you the ability to interact effectively across cultural boundar-ies.

Our Process-Oriented Trainings deal with one or more specific tasks related to intercultural exchange. They range from narrow activities, such as preparing for an international conference, to more broad activities, such as leveraging the intercultural potential of your organisation. Our Intercultural Training equips our clients with the knowledge and skills to effectively operate and socialise across cultural boundaries. Our Vocational Training prepares clients for specific vocations. Learning from the distinctive occupations and trades of other cultures gives our clients unlimited opportunities to pursue their passions.

Our Culture-Specific Trainings enable you to learn from and share the wealth of others' traditions. Whether you require Target Culture Training or would like to explore Specific Cultural Activities, we customise the optimal training solution for your individual endeavours. Trainings on fashion, dance, music, and cuisine make you experience how it looks, feels, sounds, and tastes like to be a local. Preparing your organisation's staff for a particular Target Culture will result in substantial time and cost savings among many other benefits. We are dedicated to working with people to deepen their professional know-how and expand their skills, allowing them and their ventures to succeed across cultures. Develop Your Skills!

With our division Travel Must, we at Knowledge Must offer the best in intercultural travels. Because travel is such a precious commodity, part education, part relaxation, part life-enriching experience, part adventure, Travel Must takes utmost care to fulfil your individual expectations. From executives to students, from urbanites to outdoor enthusiasts, Travel Must offers you great ways to immerse yourself in a foreign environment and culture. Over the years, we have developed an extensive support network so that we can assure you a safe and enriching experience, whether you touch down in Beijing, Berlin, or Bombay.

Travel Must does not offer the normal tourist fare, but rather experiences with an intimate level of cultural interaction, combining your special interests with unique cultural sharing opportunities to connect with local people in their everyday lives. We bring you full-fledged services right from consulting on possible destinations and activities, over bookings of accommodation and transport, to conducting adventur-ous expeditions. You will enjoy the spontaneity of exploration when we take you to fascinating places that are not always easy to navigate on your own. Meet everyday extraordinary people, immerse yourself in deep-rooted cultures, marvel at nature's bounty, and have the time of your life doing it all!

Our team will design a personalised itinerary tailored to your interests, objectives, timeframe, and budget. Whether you are a seasoned international traveller or a first-timer, enjoying luxurious palaces or rock-bottom lodges, we create a cultural adventure that matches your imagination. From the moment you contact us, our highly individual service guarantees you the attention you need to develop your vision of travel into an exciting itinerary. Embark with Travel Must on a journey you will never forget. A world of diversity is awaiting you. Broaden Your Horizons!

With our division Culture Must, we at Knowledge Must make you experience the arts and beyond. Culture Must lets you experience the backbones of culture, be it music, visual arts, religion or festivities. With us you will get to know the best that human creativity and intellect has brought about. Connecting musicians, performers, designers, painters, writers, film makers, photographers, and other artists, Culture Must creates a platform that cultivates and promotes intercultural collaborations. Diversity is the true source of our inspiration. When sharing diversity with others, it contributes to creating bonds of understanding. At Culture Must we celebrate diversity every day.

After work is over for the day, with Culture Must you can relax and have a great time. After all, you are discovering another culture. Enjoy it! But our Immersion Activities provide more than just entertainment: an opportunity for networking, self-discovery, and learning. An interplay of artistic differences, Culture Must's Immersion Activities help to familiarise ourselves with the way people of other cultures think and perceive the world around them. Join our events in an atmosphere of mutual exploration, friendship, and happiness. For example, witness the confluence of different traditions of music in our Sound Tamasha event series.

Years of diverse experience in all functional areas and artistic disciplines of cultural exchange allow us to offer our clients comprehensive services to share culture across borders, from designing events up to their execution. Our website, newslet-ters, and personal invitations will keep you updated about any upcoming sports event, music collaboration, art exhibition, film and photography project, intellectual discussion, or workshop. We are looking forward meeting you on one of our next Immersion Activities. Many new friends are awaiting you. Embrace Diversity!

Integrated SolutionsKnowledge Must takes a highly integrated approach to the complexity that is culture. Combining the specific service areas of our five divisions, Career Must, Language Must, Training Must, Travel Must, and Culture Must, we at Knowledge Must are able to deliver truly comprehensive solutions for individuals to experience a new professional and private environment, and for organisations to further their interna-tionalisation goals. Our Integrated Solutions, leveraging HR solutions, professional experience, language and cultural training, travel, and intercultural events, provide the most effective way to cultural fluency. All our solutions reinforce each other providing increased efficiency and insight.

With our Integrated Solutions, we at Knowledge Must quickly enable students, professionals, and organisations alike to work effectively across borders and bridge cultural gaps. We apply our full range of techniques for enabling people to adapt more readily to an unfamiliar set of values, habits of thought, and patterns of behaviour. Due to the inherent complexities of cultures, an interdisciplinary approach is of crucial importance. For this we draw on our knowledge of anthropology, geogra-phy, linguistics, psychology, and sociology, among other sciences.

We work with people and organisations all over the world, helping turn cultural differences into assets. Our extensive network developed over many years ensures that our clients receive full support in their activities. We deliver our Integrated Solutions locally and through our comprehensive network of specialists across the globe. Our aim is to develop customised solutions for intricate and demanding cultural environments, which will enable you to achieve your specific objectives, whether you want to immerse yourself in another culture, relocate, or profit from our intercultural expertise.

Our Range of ServicesCareer Must:• For Individuals: - Career Counselling - Internship / Volunteer / Job Placements - Study Abroad• For Organisations: - Locating Talent - Assessing Talent - Developing Talent - Managing Internship Programmes

Language Must:• Our Language Courses• Language Camps

Training Must:• Process-Oriented Training - Intercultural Training - Vocational Training• Culture-Specific Training - Target Culture Training - Specific Cultural Activities

Travel Must:• Travel Planning and Consulting• Destination India• Destination Europe• Destination China• Travel Logistics

Culture Must:• Platform for Cultural Exchange• Experience the Arts and Beyond• Immersion Activities - Music and Cultural Immersion - Sound Tamasha• Designing and Executing Events

Integrated Solutions:• Cultural Immersion• Relocation Plus• Intercultural Expertise - Intercultural Research - Intercultural Consulting and Implementation - Intercultural Facilitation

At Knowledge Must we apply business means to philanthropic ends. In light of the complexities caused by globalisation, we believe global society deserves, and desperately needs, organisations that facilitate working across cultures. Because culture is a key source for conflicts in the world, our work contributing to intercultural understanding leads directly to more harmonious inter-community relations. We take our community relationships every bit as seriously as our client relationships, going the extra mile to ensure that our work makes a real difference.

Knowledge Must is a one-stop shop for all your intercultural needs, from one-off services to complete solutions. Today, we are the only firm successfully integrating study and work experience, language, training, travel, and cultural events to deliver comprehensive, single-source solutions for crossing cultural boundaries. Whether you are going abroad to pursue an international career, training your staff to work effectively across cultures, or looking to market your products to multi-cultural communities, Knowledge Must develops effective solutions for you. With our bases in India’s capital city New Delhi, Germany's Berlin, and, soon, in China, we specialise in customising intercultural solutions for our diverse clients.

By imparting you our knowledge, we give you the confidence to unravel cultural ambiguity and complexity. We have the expert knowledge, experience, and network required to align and coordinate the processes necessary to arrive at effective, consistent, and timely answers to any questions related to your intercultural challenges. We are flexible and responsive towards the needs of our clients, but strict in the observance of quality procedures and standards. We are not satisfied until our clients are satisfied! Contact us to learn how our intercultural solutions can be of help to you.

Our Promise

Thank you for your interest in Knowledge Must. Please contact us with any enquiries and bookings as well as with comments or suggestions you might have. For more information on how our intercultural solutions can benefit you, we would be happy to discuss your needs. If you want to contact us, we offer you many possibilities to do so, so that you can decide what is most convenient for you. These are the different ways that you can choose from:

Use our contact form: Please visit our website www.knowledge-must.com and go to our contact form, fill in all the necessary information, and click on "Send!"

Email: Write us an email to [email protected].

Call or send a fax: You can call us any time during our New Delhi office hours (mentioned below) or send a fax 24/7. The number for both telephone and fax is: +91-(0)11-41752064.

Use instant messaging: We offer you to use your favourite instant messenger software to chat with us in real-time during our New Delhi office hours (mentioned below). You can choose one of these instant messengers: Skype, Yahoo Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, Google Talk, and MSN. In the contact box on the right side of every page on our website you will find a link that says: "Instant messaging options".

Our office hours: If you choose to speak or chat with us directly, please note the office hours of our office in New Delhi, which are as following (the times given are in Indian Standard Time / IST, which is GMT+4.5hrs / +3.5hrs, depending on summer / winter time): Monday to Friday: 9 am to 6 pm

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Embrace Diversity

Express Yourself

Develop Your Skills

Broaden Your Horizons

Unlock Your Potential