▶ Your Answer :
A thought-provoking current
issue concerns events happening around the global world, which plays a vital
role directly or in-directly in people's lives in many of the places that they
work or play. Some people might think that, knowing about events and issues
taking place around the world is important for people, even though it is
unlikely that they will affect their daily lives, while others do not. Both
sides may have their own reasons to support their views. If I were asked to
think about it, I would say that it is very crucial to recognize and understand
about issues happening around the globalized world, even if it is unlikely that
they will influence my daily life. There is one fundamental reason with my
personal experience and scientific data.
To begin with, knowing about
events around the world allows people to get a good job. In these days, many
large companies prefer to hire people who have not only expertise but also
common sense about the global world. Thus, people who have more knowledge and
understanding about globalized world are likely to be hired by a good and
competitive company. For
example, three years ago from now, I was looking for a good job. At that time,
even though I applied for over 10 large companies, I could not receive any
final letter of entering. I felt frustrated so much because I did well in major
interview, even I heard a lot of compliments from many interviewers. I could
not understand these results since I thought that high expertise about my
major, physics, is the key to enter a
good company successfully. However, the reality is different from my view. One
of thoughtful interviewer advised me to study common sense about the world
issue happening around the world. And, he said that key reason why I failed to
be hired by his company was your lack of common knowledge about the world.
After talking with him, I profoundly realized that many good companies want to
choose people who has both expertise and social knowledge about the globalized
world. After that event, I focused more on common global issue and got a
balance between major knowledge and common sense. Ultimately, I was able to be
hired by one of electric companies, Samsung electronics. This experience shows
that knowledge and understanding about global issues help to get a good job by
large company.
On
top of that, I would like to mention one simple statistical data. According to
the ministry of Labor of Korea, the entering rate of applicants who not only had
prepared major interview but also had read newspaper or magazine dealing with
global social issues was more than twice than that of applicants who only had focused
on major interview. This is a compelling evidence, which shows the importance
of knowing global social issues, in job seeking activities, especially job
interview.
In brief, considering concrete beneficial of knowing global social
issues for job interview, I strongly believe that to recognize and understand
social issues around the world is very critical for people, even if the events
are less likely to impact our daily lives. |