IS #180 โ Explaining Your Career Path and Ambitions
Talk about where you've been, where you are, and where you're headed โ in Korean.
Iru Helper Note
Koreans often ask ์ด๋ค ์ผ ํ์ธ์? (What do you do?) early in conversations. Having a natural, confident career narrative ready is a social essential.
์ ๋ ์ง๊ธ ๋ง์ผํ
๋ถ์ผ์์ ์ผํ๊ณ ์์ด์. ์์ผ๋ก๋ ๋ ํฐ ์ญํ ์ ๋งก๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
(I'm currently working in marketing. In the future I want to take on a bigger role.)
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๐๏ธ What You'll Learn Today
Today you'll build a confident career narrative in Korean โ covering your current role, your background, your goals, and your ambitions. These phrases are useful in social introductions, job interviews, and casual conversations where someone asks about your work.
๐ Career Path and Ambition Expressions
Expression | Meaning | Notes |
์ ๋ ~ ๋ถ์ผ์์ ์ผํ๊ณ ์์ด์ | I work in the ~ field | ๋ถ์ผ = field/sector |
~ ํ์ฌ์ ๋ค๋๊ณ ์์ด์ | I work at ~ company | ๋ค๋๋ค = to attend/go to regularly |
์ ์งํจ์ ~์์/์ด์์ | My title is ~ | ์งํจ = job title |
~ ์ชฝ ์ผ์ ํ๊ณ ์์ด์ | I do work in the ~ area | casual/conversational |
์๋๋ ~ ์ผ์ ํ์์ด์ | Originally I used to do ~ work | background framing |
~ ์
๊ณ์์ ~ ๋
๋์ด์ | I've been in the ~ industry for ~ years | ์
๊ณ = industry |
์ง๊ธ์ ~ ์/๋ฅผ ๋ด๋นํ๊ณ ์์ด์ | Right now I'm in charge of ~ | ๋ด๋นํ๋ค = to be in charge of |
์์ผ๋ก๋ ~ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ | In the future I want to ~ | ambition expression |
์ธ์ ๊ฐ๋ ~ ์/๋ฅผ ํด๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ | Someday I'd like to try ~ | ์ธ์ ๊ฐ๋ = someday |
์ ๋ชฉํ๋ ~ ์์/์ด์์ | My goal is ~ | straightforward goal statement |
~ ์ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋ง์์ | I have a lot of interest in ~ | useful for pivots/changes |
์ปค๋ฆฌ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊พธ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ | I want to change careers | ์ปค๋ฆฌ์ด = career (loanword) |
์ง๊ธ ์ง์ฅ์ ๋ง์กฑํ๊ณ ์์ด์ | I'm satisfied with my current job | ๋ง์กฑํ๋ค = to be satisfied |
๋ ์ฑ์ฅํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ | I want to grow more | universally applicable |
๐ก Key pattern: ์ ๋ [ํ์ฌ ์ญํ ]์ ํ๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ์, ์์ผ๋ก๋ [๋ชฉํ]๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. = "I'm currently doing [role], but in the future I want to [goal]." The -๋๋ฐ์ softens the transition between the two parts.
๐ฌ Conversations in Action
Dialogue 1 โ ์ด๋ค ์ผ ํ์ธ์? (What do you do?)
A: ์์ฆ ์ด๋ค ์ผ ํ์ธ์?
(What kind of work do you do these days?)
B: ์ ๋ IT ํ์ฌ์ ๋ค๋๊ณ ์์ด์. ์ฃผ๋ก ์ฑ ๊ฐ๋ฐ ์ชฝ ์ผ์ ๋ด๋นํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
(I work at an IT company. I mainly handle app development work.)
A: ์, ๊ทธ๋์? ์๋๋ ๊ฐ๋ฐ ์ชฝ ์ผ ํ์
จ์ด์?
(Oh really? Did you originally do development work too?)
B: ์๋์, ์๋๋ ๋์์ธ ์ชฝ์ด์๋๋ฐ ๊ฐ๋ฐ์ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ์๊ฒจ์ ๋ฐ๊ฟจ์ด์.
(No, I was originally in design, but I developed an interest in development and switched.)
Dialogue 2 โ ์์ผ๋ก ๊ณํ์ด ์์ด์? (Do you have future plans?)
A: ์์ผ๋ก ์ด๋ค ๊ณํ์ด ์์ด์?
(What plans do you have for the future?)
B: ์ธ์ ๊ฐ๋ ์ ์ฌ์
์ ํด๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. ์ง๊ธ์ ๊ฒฝํ์ ์๊ณ ์๋ ์ค์ด์์.
(Someday I'd like to try running my own business. Right now I'm building experience.)
A: ๋ฉ์๋ค! ์ด๋ค ๋ถ์ผ๋ก์?
(That's cool! In what field?)
B: ๊ต์ก ์ชฝ์ด์. ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ด ๊ต์ก ํ๋ซํผ์ ๋ง๋๋ ๊ฑฐ์์.
(Education. My goal is to build a Korean language education platform.)
๐ Cultural Note โ Career Identity in Korea
In Korean culture, a person's job and company carry significant social weight. Being asked ์ด๋ ๋ค๋์ธ์? (Where do you work?) is completely normal upon first meeting. Having a smooth, warm career narrative โ not boastful, but grounded โ makes a strong impression. It's also common to share your industry and ambitions in the same breath, showing you have direction. Phrases like ๋ ์ฑ์ฅํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ (I want to grow more) are seen as admirable, not vague.
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<summary>Try This Speaking Exercise
Introduce your career path and ambitions using today's expressions. Answer each prompt out loud in Korean.
A. Say what field you currently work in (or study).
์ ๋ [๋ง์ผํ
/IT/๊ต์ก] ๋ถ์ผ์์ ์ผํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
B. Name the company or organization you're with.
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[ํ์ฌ ์ด๋ฆ] ํ์ฌ์ ๋ค๋๊ณ ์์ด์.
C. State your job title or main role.
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์ ์งํจ์ [๋งค๋์ /๋์์ด๋/๊ฐ๋ฐ์]์์. / ์ฃผ๋ก [ํ๋ก์ ํธ ๊ด๋ฆฌ] ์ชฝ์ ๋ด๋นํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
D. Describe what you originally did before your current role.
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์๋๋ [์์
] ์ชฝ ์ผ์ ํ์์ด์.
E. Say how many years you've been in your industry.
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[๋ง์ผํ
] ์
๊ณ์์ [3]๋
๋์ด์.
F. Describe something you're currently in charge of.
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์ง๊ธ์ [์์
๋ฏธ๋์ด ๊ด๋ฆฌ]๋ฅผ ๋ด๋นํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
G. Share something you want to do in the future.
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์์ผ๋ก๋ [ํ์ฅ ์ญํ ]์ ๋งก๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
H. Describe a someday dream ambition.
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์ธ์ ๊ฐ๋ [์ ์ฌ์
์ ํด]๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
I. State your career goal clearly.
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์ ๋ชฉํ๋ [์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋ก ์ธ์ ๋ฐ๋ ๊ฒ]์ด์์.
J. Say you want to grow more in your current field.
Answer
[์ด ๋ถ์ผ์์] ๋ ์ฑ์ฅํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
Expression Reference
Expression | Nuance/Key |
~ ๋ถ์ผ์์ ์ผํด์ | current field |
~ ํ์ฌ์ ๋ค๋
์ | current employer |
์ ์งํจ์ ~์์ | job title |
~ ๋ด๋นํ๊ณ ์์ด์ | current responsibility |
์๋๋ ~ ํ์์ด์ | career background |
์
๊ณ์์ ~ ๋
๋์ด์ | years of experience |
์์ผ๋ก๋ ~ ์ถ์ด์ | future ambition |
์ธ์ ๊ฐ๋ ~ ํด๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ | dream goal |
์ ๋ชฉํ๋ ~์์ | stated goal |
๋ ์ฑ์ฅํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ | growth desire |
Delivery Tip
Chain your career narrative with -๋๋ฐ์: ์ ๋ ์ง๊ธ [ํ์ฌ ์ง๋ฌด]๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ์, ์๋๋ [์ด์ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ]์ด์์ด์. ์์ผ๋ก๋ [๋ชฉํ]๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. Three sentences. Full story.
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Want more reps?
Practice your full career intro โ present role, background, and ambition โ in under 30 seconds. The smoother it feels, the more confident you'll sound at your next Korean social event.
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๐ฆ Practice Hub โ career path and ambitions
Exercise 1 โ Choose the Right Expression
Pick the most natural phrase for each career conversation situation.
A. You want to say what field you work in:
- ์ ์งํจ์ ๊ฐ๋ฐ์์์
- ์ ๋ IT ๋ถ์ผ์์ ์ผํ๊ณ ์์ด์
- ์์ผ๋ก๋ ๊ฐ๋ฐ์๊ฐ ๋๊ณ ์ถ์ด์
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2 โ ์ ๋ IT ๋ถ์ผ์์ ์ผํ๊ณ ์์ด์ directly states the field you're in now.
B. You want to say what your job title is:
- ์ ์งํจ์ ํ์ฅ์ด์์
- IT ์ ๊ณ์์ 5๋ ๋์ด์
- ํ์ฅ ์ชฝ ์ผ์ ๋ด๋นํ๊ณ ์์ด์
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1 โ ์ ์งํจ์ ํ์ฅ์ด์์ is the direct title statement.
C. You want to describe a past career before your current one:
- ์์ผ๋ก๋ ๋์์ธ์ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์
- ์๋๋ ๋์์ธ ์ชฝ ์ผ์ ํ์์ด์
- ๋์์ธ ๋ถ์ผ์ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋ง์์
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2 โ ์๋๋ ~ ํ์์ด์ frames past career history.
D. You want to say you've been in the marketing industry for 4 years:
- ๋ง์ผํ ์ชฝ ์ผ์ ๋ด๋นํ๊ณ ์์ด์
- ๋ง์ผํ ์ ๊ณต๋ถํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์
- ๋ง์ผํ ์ ๊ณ์์ 4๋ ๋์ด์
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3 โ ์
๊ณ์์ ~ ๋
๋์ด์ expresses years of experience in a sector.
E. You want to say what you're currently in charge of:
- ์ง๊ธ์ SNS ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ด๋นํ๊ณ ์์ด์
- ์์ผ๋ก๋ SNS ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์
- ์๋๋ SNS ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ์์ด์
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1 โ ์ง๊ธ์ ~ ๋ด๋นํ๊ณ ์์ด์ describes your current responsibility.
F. You want to share a future career ambition:
- ์ ๋ ์ง๊ธ ๊ต์ก ๋ถ์ผ์์ ์ผํ๊ณ ์์ด์
- ์์ผ๋ก๋ ๊ต์ก ๋ถ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์
- ๊ต์ก ์ ๊ณ์์ ์ค๋ ๋์ด์
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2 โ ์์ผ๋ก๋ ~ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ expresses future direction.
G. You want to express a dream someday goal:
- ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ ์ฌ์ ์ด์์
- ์ธ์ ๊ฐ๋ ์ ์ฌ์ ์ ํด๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ด์
- ์ฌ์ ๋ถ์ผ์์ ์ผํ๊ณ ์์ด์
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2 โ ์ธ์ ๊ฐ๋ ~ ํด๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ adds the "someday/dream" nuance.
H. You want to state your goal clearly and directly:
- ์์ผ๋ก๋ ๋ฆฌ๋๊ฐ ๋๊ณ ์ถ์ด์
- ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ ํ์ ์ด๋๋ ๊ฑฐ์์
- ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ถ์ผ์์ ์ผํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์
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2 โ ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ ~ ๊ฑฐ์์ is the clearest goal statement form.
I. You want to say you have a lot of interest in the education field:
- ๊ต์ก ์ ๊ณ์์ 10๋ ๋์ด์
- ๊ต์ก ๋ถ์ผ์ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋ง์์
- ๊ต์ก ์ชฝ ์ผ์ ๋ด๋นํ๊ณ ์์ด์
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2 โ ~ ์ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋ง์์ expresses interest, not experience.
J. You want to say you want to grow more in your field:
- ์ด ๋ถ์ผ์์ ๋ ์ฑ์ฅํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์
- ์ด ๋ถ์ผ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊พธ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์
- ์ด ๋ถ์ผ์ ์ด์ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ์์ด์
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1 โ ๋ ์ฑ์ฅํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ is the growth ambition phrase.
Quick Reference
Situation | Phrase |
Current field | ~ ๋ถ์ผ์์ ์ผํด์ |
Job title | ์ ์งํจ์ ~์์ |
Past career | ์๋๋ ~ ํ์์ด์ |
Years of experience | ์
๊ณ์์ ~ ๋
๋์ด์ |
Current responsibility | ~ ๋ด๋นํ๊ณ ์์ด์ |
Future ambition | ์์ผ๋ก๋ ~ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ |
Dream goal | ์ธ์ ๊ฐ๋ ~ ํด๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ |
Stated goal | ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ ~์์ |
Interest | ~ ์ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋ง์์ |
Growth | ๋ ์ฑ์ฅํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ |
Pitfall: Mixing Tenses
์๋๋ ~ ํ์์ด์ = PAST background. ์ง๊ธ์ ~ ๋ด๋นํด์ = PRESENT role. ์์ผ๋ก๋ ~ ์ถ์ด์ = FUTURE goal. Keep these three time frames distinct. Mixing them (e.g., ์๋๋ ์ง๊ธ ์ผํด์) produces confusion.
Exercise 2 โ Korean โ English Translation
Translate each career statement naturally.
A. ์ ๋ ๊ธ์ต ๋ถ์ผ์์ ์ผํ๊ณ ์์ด์. ์ฃผ๋ก ๋ฐ์ดํฐ ๋ถ์์ ๋ด๋นํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
Answer
I work in the finance field. I'm mainly in charge of data analysis.
B. ์๋๋ ์์
์ชฝ ์ผ์ ํ์๋๋ฐ ๋ง์ผํ
์ผ๋ก ์ฎ๊ฒผ์ด์.
Answer
I originally worked in sales but moved to marketing.
C. ์ด ์
๊ณ์์ ๋ฒ์จ 7๋
๋์ด์. ์๊ฐ์ด ์ ๋ง ๋น ๋ฅด๋ค์.
Answer
I've already been in this industry for 7 years. Time really flies.
D. ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ ์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋ก ์ธ์ ๋ฐ๋ ๊ฑฐ์์.
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My goal is to be recognized as an expert.
E. ์ธ์ ๊ฐ๋ ์ ์คํ๋์ค๋ฅผ ์ด์ด๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
Answer
Someday I'd like to try opening my own studio.
F. ์์ผ๋ก๋ ๊ด๋ฆฌ ์ชฝ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. ํ์ ์ด๋์ด๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ๊ฑฐ๋ ์.
Answer
In the future I want to go into management. I want to try leading a team.
G. ๊ต์ก ๋ถ์ผ์ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋ง์์. ๋์ค์ ๊ทธ์ชฝ์ผ๋ก ์ ํํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
Answer
I have a lot of interest in education. I want to transition into that field later.
H. ์ง๊ธ ์ง์ฅ์ ๋ง์กฑํ๊ณ ์์ด์. ์ข์ ๋๋ฃ๋ค์ด ๋ง์์.
Answer
I'm satisfied with my current job. There are many good colleagues.
I. ์ปค๋ฆฌ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊พธ๊ณ ์ถ์๋ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์์ํด์ผ ํ ์ง ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์ด์.
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I want to change careers but I'm not sure how to start.
J. ๋ ์ฑ์ฅํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ ์์ฆ ๊ณต๋ถ๋ ํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
Answer
I want to grow more so I've been studying lately too.
Vocabulary Cheat Sheet
Korean | English |
์
๊ณ | industry/sector |
๋ถ์ผ | field/area |
์งํจ | job title |
๋ด๋นํ๋ค | to be in charge of |
์ ํํ๋ค | to switch/transition |
์ธ์ ๋ฐ๋ค | to be recognized |
์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ | expert/professional |
๊ด๋ฆฌ | management |
๋๋ฃ | colleague |
Grammar Tip
-๋๋ฐ / -๋๋ฐ์ bridges two related thoughts smoothly: ๋ง์ผํ
์ชฝ ์ผ์ ํ๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ์, ์์ผ๋ก๋ ๊ธฐํ ์ชฝ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. = "I'm in marketing, but I want to move into planning." It's gentler and more natural than ๊ทธ๋ฐ๋ฐ or ํ์ง๋ง in introductory contexts.
Exercise 3 โ Complete the Sentence
Fill in the blank with the right career expression.
A. ์ ๋ IT __์์ ์ผํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
(I work in the IT field.)
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๋ถ์ผ
B. ์ง๊ธ์ ์ฝํ
์ธ ์ ์์ __ํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
(Right now I'm in charge of content creation.)
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๋ด๋น
C. ์๋๋ ํ๊ณ ์ชฝ ์ผ์ __์ด์.
(I originally worked in accounting.)
Answer
ํ์
D. ์ด __์์ 5๋
๋์ด์.
(I've been in this industry for 5 years.)
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์
๊ณ
E. ์ __์ ํ๋ก์ ํธ ๋งค๋์ ์์.
(My title is project manager.)
Answer
์งํจ
F. ์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ฐฝ์
์ __๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
(In the future I want to start a business.)
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ํ
G. ์ธ์ ๊ฐ๋ ์ ์นดํ๋ฅผ __๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
(Someday I'd like to open my own cafรฉ.)
Answer
์ด์ด๋ณด
H. ์ __๋ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ํ์ ์ด๋๋ ๊ฑฐ์์.
(My goal is to lead a global team.)
Answer
๋ชฉํ
I. ๊ต์ก ๋ถ์ผ์ __์ด ๋ง์์.
(I have a lot of interest in the education field.)
Answer
๊ด์ฌ
J. ๋ __ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ ์๊ฒฉ์ฆ ๊ณต๋ถ๋ ํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
(I want to grow more so I'm also studying for a certification.)
Answer
์ฑ์ฅ
Sentence Starters
Starter | Role |
์ ๋ ~ ๋ถ์ผ์์ | current field |
์ง๊ธ์ ~ ๋ด๋นํด์ | current duty |
์๋๋ ~ ํ์์ด์ | past background |
~ ์
๊ณ์์ ~ ๋
๋์ด์ | experience length |
์ ์งํจ์ ~์์ | title |
์์ผ๋ก๋ ~ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ | future ambition |
์ธ์ ๊ฐ๋ ~ ํด๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ | dream |
์ ๋ชฉํ๋ ~์์ | stated goal |
~ ์ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋ง์์ | interest |
๋ ์ฑ์ฅํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ | growth |
Production Tip
Build your career intro in layers: field โ role โ background โ ambition. ์ ๋ [๋ถ์ผ]์์ ์ผํ๊ณ ์์ด์. ์ฃผ๋ก [๋ด๋น]์ ๋งก๊ณ ์์ด์. ์๋๋ [๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ]์ด์๋๋ฐ, ์์ผ๋ก๋ [๋ชฉํ]๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. Four sentences, complete story.
Exercise 4 โ Dialogue Completion
Complete each career conversation naturally.
A.
A: ์์ฆ ์ด๋ค ์ผ ํ์ธ์?
B: ์ ๋ __์์ ์ผํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
Answer
[๋ง์ผํ
/IT/๊ต์ก] ๋ถ์ผ โ ์ ๋ ๋ง์ผํ
๋ถ์ผ์์ ์ผํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
(I work in the marketing field.)
B.
A: ๊ทธ ํ์ฌ์์ ์ด๋ค ์ญํ ์ด์์?
B: ์ฃผ๋ก __์/๋ฅผ ๋ด๋นํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
Answer
[ํ๋ก์ ํธ ๊ด๋ฆฌ/์ฝํ
์ธ ์ ์] โ ์ฃผ๋ก ํ๋ก์ ํธ ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ด๋นํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
(I mainly handle project management.)
C.
A: ์๋๋ถํฐ ๊ทธ ๋ถ์ผ์ ๊ณ์
จ์ด์?
B: ์๋์, ์๋๋ __์์ด์/์ด์์ด์.
Answer
[๋์์ด๋/์์
์ง] โ ์๋์, ์๋๋ ๋์์ด๋์์ด์.
(No, I was originally a designer.)
D.
A: ๊ทธ ์
๊ณ์์ ์ผ๋ง๋ ๋์ด์?
B: ์์ __๋
๋์ด์.
Answer
[IT ์
๊ณ/๋ง์ผํ
์
๊ณ] โ IT ์
๊ณ์์ 6๋
๋์ด์.
(I've been in the IT industry for 6 years.)
E.
A: ์์ผ๋ก ์ด๋ค ๊ณํ์ด ์์ด์?
B: ์์ผ๋ก๋ __๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
Answer
[๊ด๋ฆฌ์ง์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ] โ ์์ผ๋ก๋ ๊ด๋ฆฌ์ง์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
(In the future I want to move into management.)
F.
A: ํฐ ๊ฟ์ด ์์ด์?
B: ์ธ์ ๊ฐ๋ __๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
Answer
[์ ์ฌ์
์ ํด] โ ์ธ์ ๊ฐ๋ ์ ์ฌ์
์ ํด๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
(Someday I'd like to try running my own business.)
G.
A: ๋ชฉํ๊ฐ ๋ญ์์?
B: ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ __๊ฑฐ์์/๊ฒ์ด์์.
Answer
[์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋ก ์ธ์ ๋ฐ๋] โ ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ ์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋ก ์ธ์ ๋ฐ๋ ๊ฑฐ์์.
(My goal is to be recognized as an expert.)
H.
A: ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ถ์ผ์๋ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ์์ด์?
B: ๋ค, __์ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋ง์์.
Answer
[๊ต์ก ๋ถ์ผ] โ ๋ค, ๊ต์ก ๋ถ์ผ์ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋ง์์.
(Yes, I have a lot of interest in the education field.)
I.
A: ์ง๊ธ ์ง์ฅ ์ด๋์?
B: __๊ณ ์์ด์. ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ๋ง์์.
Answer
๋ง์กฑํ โ ๋ง์กฑํ๊ณ ์์ด์. ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ๋ง์์.
(I'm satisfied. There's a lot to learn.)
J.
A: ๋ ์ฑ์ฅํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์?
B: ๋ค, ๋ __์ถ์ด์ ์์ฆ ์ด์ฌํ ํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
Answer
์ฑ์ฅํ๊ณ โ ๋ค, ๋ ์ฑ์ฅํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ ์์ฆ ์ด์ฌํ ํ๊ณ ์์ด์.
(Yes, I want to grow more so I've been working hard lately.)
Useful Phrases
Phrase | Meaning |
์ด๋ค ์ญํ ์ด์์? | What's your role? |
์๋๋ถํฐ ๊ทธ ๋ถ์ผ์ ๊ณ์
จ์ด์? | Were you always in that field? |
์ผ๋ง๋ ๋์ด์? | How long has it been? |
ํฐ ๊ฟ์ด ์์ด์? | Do you have a big dream? |
๋ฐฐ์ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ๋ง์์ | There's a lot to learn |
์ด์ฌํ ํ๊ณ ์์ด์ | I'm working hard |
Conversation Tip
When someone asks about your career in Korean, connect your answer to a personal story. Instead of just saying ๋ง์ผํฐ์์, try: ๋ง์ผํ
๋ถ์ผ์์ ์ผํ๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ์, ์๋๋ ๋์์ธ์ด์์ด์. ๋์ค์๋ ์ ๋ธ๋๋๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ค๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. Three details, one memorable answer.
Exercise 5 โ Free Speaking Practice
Answer each prompt in 2โ3 sentences.
A. Introduce what field and company you currently work in (or study at).
Sample Answer
์ ๋ ๊ต์ก ๋ถ์ผ์์ ์ผํ๊ณ ์์ด์. ์จ๋ผ์ธ ๊ต์ก ํ์ฌ์ ๋ค๋๊ณ ์์ด์.
B. Explain your current role or main responsibility.
Sample Answer
์ฃผ๋ก ์ฝํ
์ธ ๊ธฐํ์ ๋ด๋นํ๊ณ ์์ด์. ์ปค๋ฆฌํ๋ผ์ ๋ง๋๋ ์ผ์ด์์.
C. Describe your career background before your current role.
Sample Answer
์๋๋ ๋ฒ์ญ ์ชฝ ์ผ์ ํ์์ด์. ์ธ์ด์ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋ง์์์.
D. Say how long you've been in your field.
Sample Answer
๊ต์ก ์
๊ณ์์ 4๋
๋์ด์. ์๊ฐ์ด ์ ๋ง ๋น ๋ฅธ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
E. Share a future ambition โ what you want to do next.
Sample Answer
์์ผ๋ก๋ ๋ ํฐ ํ์ ์ด๋๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. ๋ฆฌ๋์ญ์ ํค์ฐ๊ณ ์ถ๊ฑฐ๋ ์.
F. Describe a someday dream goal.
Sample Answer
์ธ์ ๊ฐ๋ ์ ๊ต์ก ํ๋ซํผ์ ๋ง๋ค์ด๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๋ฅด์น๋ ์ฑ์ด์.
G. State your clearest career goal.
Sample Answer
์ ๋ชฉํ๋ ์
๊ณ์์ ์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋ก ์ธ์ ๋ฐ๋ ๊ฑฐ์์.
H. Mention an area or field you're curious about branching into.
Sample Answer
์์ฆ AI ๋ถ์ผ์ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋ง์์. ์ธ์ ๊ฐ ๊ทธ์ชฝ๋ ๊ฒฝํํด๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
I. Say how you feel about your current job.
Sample Answer
์ง๊ธ ์ง์ฅ์ ๋ง์กฑํ๊ณ ์์ด์. ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๋ ๊ฒ ๋ง๊ณ , ๋๋ฃ๋ค๋ ์ข์์.
J. Give your full career intro in 4 sentences: field โ role โ background โ goal.
Sample Answer
์ ๋ ๋ง์ผํ
๋ถ์ผ์์ ์ผํ๊ณ ์์ด์. ์ฃผ๋ก SNS ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ด๋นํ๊ณ ์์ด์. ์๋๋ ๋์์ธ์ด์๋๋ฐ ๋ง์ผํ
์ผ๋ก ๋์ด์์ด์. ์์ผ๋ก๋ ๋ธ๋๋ ๋งค๋์ ๊ฐ ๋๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
Career Intro Formula
Step | Phrase |
1. Field | ์ ๋ ~ ๋ถ์ผ์์ ์ผํด์ |
2. Role | ์ฃผ๋ก ~ ๋ด๋นํด์ |
3. Background | ์๋๋ ~ ํ์์ด์ |
4. Ambition | ์์ผ๋ก๋ ~ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ |
Speaking Challenge
Record yourself giving your full 4-step career intro in Korean under 45 seconds. Then try it again โ but this time pretend you're at a Korean networking event. Add ์ ๋ถํ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค at the end. Natural, confident, complete.
์ปค๋ฆฌ์ด ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ก ์์ ์๊ฒ ํด๋ณด์ธ์! โจ
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