๐Why โWho You Knowโ Matters in the U.S.
โ๋๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์๋๋โ๊ฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ ์ค์ํ ์ด์ ๋?
While many people describe America as a meritocracy, success is not always just about skills. In many industries, who you know is as important as what you can do. Companies often prefer hiring someone recommended by a current employee or contact because the person seems more trustworthy.
๋ง์ ์ฌ๋์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ ์ค์ฌ ์ฌํ๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํ์ง๋ง, ์ฑ๊ณต์ด ํญ์ ์ค๋ ฅ๋ง์ผ๋ก ๊ฒฐ์ ๋์ง๋ ์์์. ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ฐ์
์์๋ โ๋ฌด์์ ํ ์ ์๋๊ฐโ๋งํผ์ด๋ โ๋๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์๋๋โ๋ ์ค์ํด์. ํ์ฌ๋ค์ ํ์ฌ ์ง์์ด๋ ์ง์ธ์ด ์ถ์ฒํ ์ง์์๋ฅผ ๋ ์ ๋ขฐํ ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ๋๊ปด์ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์ ํธํ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๊ฐ ๋ง์์.
If you like an employee, you are more likely to trust the person they recommend over a random applicant. This is why many people look for jobs through their friend network.
ํ์ฌ์์ ๋ฏฟ๊ณ ์ข์ํ๋ ์ง์์ด ์ถ์ฒํ๋ค๋ฉด, ์๋ฌด๋ฐ ๊ด๋ จ ์๋ ์ง์์๋ณด๋ค ๊ทธ ์ถ์ฒ์ธ์ ๋ ์ ๋ขฐํ๊ฒ ๋๋ ๊ฒฝํฅ์ด ์์ด์. ๊ทธ๋์ ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์น๊ตฌ๋ ์ง์ธ ๋คํธ์ํฌ๋ฅผ ํตํด ์ทจ์
๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๋ ๊ฑฐ์์.
Americans also value self-promotion and individual achievement. This culture encourages people to network actively to get jobs or advance their careers. If someone likes you personally, they are more likely to help you professionally. Networking is not limited to friends, it also includes family, alumni, or mentors. Some people are โalways on,โ taking every opportunity to meet new people, even at parties or social events.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋ค์ ์๊ธฐ PR๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ธ์ ์ฑ์ทจ๋ฅผ ์ค์ํ๊ฒ ์๊ฐํด์. ์ด๋ฐ ๋ฌธํ ๋๋ฌธ์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์ทจ์
์ด๋ ์ปค๋ฆฌ์ด ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์ํด ์ ๊ทน์ ์ผ๋ก ๋คํธ์ํนํ๋ ค๊ณ ํด์. ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ ๋น์ ์ ๊ฐ์ธ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ข์ํ๋ฉด, ์ผ๋ก๋ ๋์์ค ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ด ๋ ์ปค์. ๋คํธ์ํน์ ์น๊ตฌ๋ฟ ์๋๋ผ ๊ฐ์กฑ, ๋๋ฌธ, ๋ฉํ ๊น์ง ํฌํจ๋ผ์. ํํฐ๋ ์ฌ๊ต ๋ชจ์์์๋ ์๋ก์ด ์ฌ๋ ๋ง๋ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ์ ๋ ๋์น์ง ์๋, ๋ง ๊ทธ๋๋ก ๋ โ๋คํธ์ํน ๋ชจ๋โ์ธ ์ฌ๋๋ค๋ ์์ด์.
Unlike in some countries, hierarchy or seniority is less important in most U.S. workplaces. Companies focus on results and performance, but when that alone is not enough to stand out, having personal connections can make a difference. Networking gives you that extra advantage.
๋ช๋ช ๋๋ผ์ ๋ฌ๋ฆฌ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ง์ฅ์์๋ ์ง๊ธ์ด๋ ์ฐ์ฐจ๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ค์ง ์ค์ํ์ง ์์ ํธ์ด์์. ํ์ฌ๋ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ค์ํ์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ๊ฒ๋ง์ผ๋ก ๋์ ๋๊ธฐ ์ด๋ ค์ธ ๋๋ ๊ฐ์ธ์ ์ธ ์ธ๋งฅ์ด ๋์์ด ๋ ๋๊ฐ ์์ด์. ๋คํธ์ํน์ ๊ทธ๋ฐ โํ ๋ ์ฐจ์ดโ์ ์ด์ ์ ๋ง๋ค์ด์ค์.
In conclusion, in the U.S., building relationships is as important as building skills. Knowing the right people can open doors, provide opportunities, and help you succeed, even in a country that values merit and achievement.
๊ฒฐ๋ก ์ ์ผ๋ก, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์๋ ๊ด๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋๋ ์ผ์ด ์ค๋ ฅ์ ์๋ ๊ฒ๋งํผ์ด๋ ์ค์ํด์. ๋ฅ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์ฑ์ทจ๋ฅผ ์ค์ํ๋ ๋๋ผ๋ผ ํด๋, ์ข์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ์ด์ด์ฃผ๊ณ ์ฑ๊ณต์ผ๋ก ์ด์ด์ง ์๋ ์์ด์. |