Get Help From Friends And Acquaintances
GET HELP FROM FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES
Practice English with your teacher
Warm-up
Talk about these questions with your teacher.
선생님과 이야기해 보세요.
- Have you ever found a job or a useful opportunity through someone you know personally? What happened?
개인적으로 아는 사람을 통해 일자리나 좋은 기회를 얻은 적이 있나요? 어떤 일이 있었나요? - When you need career advice or job leads, who do you usually reach out to first — close friends, former coworkers, or someone else?
취업 관련 조언이나 일자리 정보가 필요할 때, 보통 누구에게 먼저 연락하나요 — 가까운 친구, 전 직장 동료, 아니면 다른 사람인가요?
Vocabulary
Listen and repeat after your teacher.
선생님을 따라 읽어보세요.
Reading
Read the passage with your teacher.
선생님과 함께 지문을 읽어보세요.
Fifty to seventy-five percent of good jobs come from friends—and friends of friends—by word of mouth. The higher the level of the job, the more that rule applies. At the senior executive and professional level, for example, as many as 90 percent of good jobs come through personal friends.
Therefore, it's urgent to involve your friends in your job-search, not just notify them of your plight ("I'm out of work. Let me know if you hear of anything.").
Job campaigns often stall because job-hunters leave their personal networks too quickly to go off into the world of "strangers." Strangers will seldom be as responsive to you as people whom you've met before, even briefly. Surprisingly, your attendance at a trade show can qualify you as a "friend" in someone's eyes.
Make sure you get your job-hunt strongly established with personal friends and business acquaintances before you spend a lot of time answering ads, working with recruiters, or cold calling. Cold calling isn't very appealing—that's why they call it cold calling!
Korean Trap! / 한국인 실수 교정
Common mistakes Korean speakers make.
한국인이 자주 하는 실수를 알아봅시다.
한국어에서는 "좋은 자리 소개해 줄 수 있어?"라고 자연스럽게 말하지만, 영어에서 "introduce"는 사람을 다른 사람에게 소개할 때 쓰는 단어입니다. 일자리를 알선하거나 추천해 달라고 할 때는 "refer me to," "connect me with," 또는 "put in a good word for me"와 같은 표현을 사용해야 합니다. 또한, "introduce"는 타동사로 "introduce A to B" 형태로 쓰이므로 "introduce me a job"처럼 이중 목적어 구문으로 쓸 수 없습니다.
Discussion
Share your thoughts with your teacher.
선생님과 의견을 나눠보세요.
- How would you apply what you learned today?
오늘 배운 것을 어떻게 활용하시겠어요? - What was the most useful part of this lesson?
이 수업에서 가장 유용한 부분은 무엇이었나요? - Can you think of a real situation where you would use this?
이것을 사용할 실제 상황을 생각해 볼 수 있나요? - What would you like to practice more?
더 연습하고 싶은 것은 무엇인가요?
Lesson Summary / 수업 요약
Today's Topic: GET HELP FROM FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES
Level: Job Preparation (JOB)
Review this lesson before your next class! / 다음 수업 전에 복습하세요!