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The Crossroads of a Job Change
ํธ์ฃผ์์ ์จ ๊ทธ๋ ์ด์ค๋ ์์ธ ๊ฐ๋จ์ ์์นํ ์
๊ณ 1์ ํจ์
๊ธฐ์
์์ ํด์ธ
๋ง์ผํ
์
๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๋ด๋นํ๊ณ ์๋ค.
Grace, who came from Australia, works in overseas marketing at the top
fashion company in Gangnam, Seoul.
๋ฐ๊ณ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ธ ์ฑ๊ฒฉ ๋๋ถ์ ๋๋ฃ๋ค๊ณผ๋ ์ ์ง๋ด๊ณ , ์
๋ฌด ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ ์ธ์ ๋ฐ๊ณ
์๋ค.
Thanks to her bright and positive personality, she gets along well with
her colleagues and is recognized for her work performance.
๊ทธ๋
์ ๊ณ์๋ ๋ ๋ ํ ์ง์๊ตฐ์ด์ ํ๊ตญ ์ง์ฅ ์ํ์
์กฐ์ธ์์ธ ๊ฐ๋ฏธ๋
๋๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์๋ค.
By her side is Deputy Manager Kang Min-yeo, a strong supporter and
advisor on Korean office life.
๊ฐ๋ฏธ๋
๋๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ๊ทธ๋ ์ด์ค์ ๊ฐ์ ํ์ฌ์์ ์ผํ๋ค๊ฐ, ํ์ฌ ๊ทธ๋ ์ด์ค์๊ฒ
์ด์ง ์ ์์ ํ ์
๊ณ 5์ ํจ์
ํ์ฌ๋ก ๋จผ์
์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฎ๊ธด ๊ฒฝํ์ด ์๋ค.
Deputy Manager Kang previously worked at the same company as Grace
before moving to a new job at the fifth-ranked fashion company
that is now offering Grace a job.
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ด๋ ๋ , ๊ฐ๋ฏธ๋
๋๋ฆฌ์ ์๊ฐ๋ก ์๊ฒ ๋ ํค๋ํํฐ๋ก๋ถํฐ
์๊นํ ์ ํ ํ ํต์ ๋ฐ๊ฒ ๋์๋ค.
Then one day, Grace received an enticing phone call from a
headhunter she met through Deputy Manager Kang.
Headhunter: ์๋
ํ์ธ์, ๊ทธ๋ ์ด์ค ์จ. ๊ฐ๋ฏธ๋
๋๋ฆฌ๋์ผ๋ก๋ถํฐ ์ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. ํน์ ์๋ก์ด ์ปค๋ฆฌ์ด ๊ธฐํ์ ๊ด์ฌ
์์ผ์ ๊ฐ์?
Hello, Ms. Grace. I received your contact information from Deputy
Manager Kang Min-yeo. Are you perhaps interested in new career
opportunities?
GRACE: ์๋
ํ์ธ์. ๊ฐ ๋๋ฆฌ๋๊ป๋ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ข์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ
๋ง์ด ๋ค์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ค ๊ธฐํ์ธ์ง ์์ธํ ๋ฃ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค.
Hello. I've already heard great things from Deputy Manager Kang. I'd
like to hear more about the opportunity.
Headhunter: ์ ํฌ
๊ณ ๊ฐ์ฌ์์ ํด์ธ ๋ง์ผํ
ํ ๋ฆฌ๋ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ
์ ์ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ด์ ํ์ฌ ๋ฐ์ผ์๋ ๊ฒ์ 1.5๋ฐฐ ์์ค์ด๊ณ ์.
Our client company would like to offer you the position of Overseas
Marketing Team Leader. The salary is 1.5 times your current one.
GRACE: (๋๋ผ๋ฉฐ) 1.5๋ฐฐ์? ํ ๋ฆฌ๋ ์๋ฆฌ๊น์ง... ๊ฐ ๋๋ฆฌ๋
ํ์ฌ๊ตฐ์! ์ ๋ง
์๊นํ ์ ์์ด๋ค์.
(Surprised) 1.5 times? And a Team Leader position... It's Deputy
Manager Kang's company! That's a very tempting offer.
This is where Grace's dilemma began. The location of 'Suwon, Gyeonggi Province' was quite far from her current residence in Gangnam, Seoul, especially the convenient Yeoksam-dong.
Considering the daily commute time, it could significantly impact her quality of life.
Moreover, her current company held the stable position of being the top in the industry.
ํธ์ฃผ์ธ์ ์๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋ณธ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ (Australian Perspective)
GRACE: ๊ฐ ๋๋ฆฌ๋, ์๋
ํ์ธ์! ํค๋ํํฐ๋๊ป ์ข์ ์ ์
๋ฐ์์ด์. ์ ๋ง ๊ฐ์ฌํด์. ๊ทธ๋ฐ๋ฐ… ํ์ฌ๊ฐ ์์์ด๋ผ๊ณ ํด์์. ์ ๊ฐ ์ง๊ธ
์ญ์ผ๋์ ์ด๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ, ์ถํด๊ทผ์ด ์ข ๊ฑฑ์ ๋ผ์.
Hello, Deputy Manager Kang! I received a great offer from the
headhunter. Thank you so much. But... the company is in Suwon. I
currently live in Yeoksam-dong, so I'm a bit worried about the
commute.
๊ฐ๋ฏธ๋
: ์ด, ๊ทธ๋ ์ด์ค! ์ฐ๋ฝ๋ฐ์๊ตฌ๋. ์ฐ๋ด ์กฐ๊ฑด์ ๋ง์์
๋ค์์ด? ์์ ์์น ๋๋ฌธ์ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ด๊ตฌ๋. ์ฌ์ค ๋๋ ์ฒ์์๋ ๊ทธ ๋ถ๋ถ์ด ์ข
๋ง์ค์ฌ์ก์ด. ์์ธ์์ ์ญ ์ด์์ผ๋๊น.
Oh, Grace! You got the call. Are you happy with the salary
conditions? You're worried about the Suwon location, right? Actually,
I hesitated a bit about that part myself at first. I had lived in
Seoul my whole life.
GRACE: ํธ์ฃผ์์๋ ๋ณดํต ์๊ธฐ
์ํ ๋ฐ๊ฒฝ ์์์ ์ง์ฅ์ ๊ตฌํ๋ ๊ฑธ ์ค์ํ๊ฒ
์๊ฐํ๊ฑฐ๋ ์. ์ด๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ๊ธธ๋ฉด ๋๋ฌด ์ง์น ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
In Australia, people usually consider finding a job within their
living radius important. Long commute times can be very tiring.
๊ฐ๋ฏธ๋
: ํ๊ตญ ์ง์ฅ์ธ ํ๊ท
์ฌ์ง ๊ธฐ๊ฐ์ด ๊ธธ์ง ์์. ๋๋ ์ ํ์ฌ์์ 3๋
์ข ๋๊ฒ ์ผํ๊ณ ์ด์งํ ๊ฑฐ๊ณ .
The average tenure of Korean office workers isn't that long. I also
worked a little over three years before changing jobs.
GRACE: ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ง๊ธ ํ์ฌ๋ ์
๊ณ 1์์์์. ์์ ์ ์ด๊ณ ,
๋ธ๋๋ ์ธ์ง๋๋ ๋๊ณ ์. ์๋ก์ด ํ์ฌ๋ 5์๋ผ๊ณ ํ์
จ๋๋ฐ… ๋ฌธํ๋ ์์ ์ฑ์
๊ด์ฐฎ์๊ฐ์?
And my current company is number one in the industry. It's stable,
and the brand recognition is high. The new company is fifth... is its
culture and stability okay?
๊ฐ๋ฏธ๋
: ์ฌ๊ธด ํ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ๋ ์ข๊ณ ๋ด๊ฐ
์ฃผ๋์ ์ผ๋ก ์ผํ ์ ์์ด. ์ฐ๋ด๋ ์ค์ํ์ง๋ง
์ฑ์ฅ ๊ธฐํ๋ ์ค์ํ์์? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ฆ ์ด์ง
์ถ์ธ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ปค๋ฆฌ์ด ์ํด์ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์์ง์ด๋
๊ฒ๋ ๊ด์ฐฎ์.
The team is great and I can work proactively here. Salary is
important, but so is the opportunity for growth. Looking at the trend
in job changes, moving fast for your career isn’t a bad thing.
GRACE: ์… ๋๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ง์์ ๋ค์ผ๋ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ ์๊ฐํด
๋ด์ผ๊ฒ ๋ค์. ์์์์์ ์ํ์ ์ด๋ค๊ฐ์? ์ญ์ผ๋๊ณผ ๋ง์ด ๋ค๋ฅธ๊ฐ์?
Hmm... I think I need to consider it more. What’s life in Suwon like?
Is it very different from Yeoksam-dong?
๊ฐ๋ฏธ๋
: ์์ธ ์ค์ฌ๋ถ์๋ ๋ค๋ฅด์ง๋ง
์ ์ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ง๋๋ฉด ๊ด์ฐฎ์. ์์๋ ํธ์์์ค
๋ง๊ณ ๊ณต์๋ ๋ง์์ ์ด๊ธฐ ์ข์.
It’s different from the city center, but once you adjust, Suwon is
great. It has all the amenities and lots of parks, so it’s a good
place to live.
GRACE: ์กฐ์ธ ์ ๋ง ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค, ๋๋ฆฌ๋. ๋๋ถ์ ์ข ๋
๊ฐ๊ด์ ์ผ๋ก ์๊ฐํด ๋ณผ ์ ์์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
Thank you so much for the advice. It really helps me think more
objectively.
Through her conversation with Deputy Manager Kang, Grace fell into deeper contemplation.
Her familiar and stable current job, the attractive opportunity for a salary increase and promotion at a new company, and even the change in living environment from Seoul to Gyeonggi Province.
As an Australian and a foreigner working in Korea, what decision will Grace make?
In the next installment, we will follow Grace as she learns more about the new company and re-examines her career goals and life values.
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