▶ Your Answer : Some people presume that cooperation is one of the most important component in academic and work fields. However, I firmly believe that unlike our expectation, cooperation is not significant in modern society because it is not much helpful to get good jobs in the future and also it's importance is far much too greater in the past. To begin with, the ability to cooperate with others is not crucial to live a successful life. This is attributed to the fact that nowadays, most of companies consider more importantly an individual's ability, such as comleting project on time, meeting deadline, and observing work regulation thoroughly than cooperation. This reflects the importance of cooperation dose not outweigh that of work ability. According to the Ministry of Labor of Korea in 2008, the individual's capacity is the most significant factor for hiring in practice, taking up more than 70 percent of the final calls. The interviewers looked at the job applicants' skills and knowledge, mostly related to specialty. This implies that capable person tend to have more chance to get better jobs rather than cooperative one. In addition, collaboration is rather more important in the past. This is due to the fact that as modern society is becoming increasingly indivisualistic, the importance of collaboration has been decreasing at a rapid pace. Not only that, with a thought that collaboration can decrease effectiveness of work, the value of collaboration is more decreasing. According to a study conducted by Seoul National University of Korea in 2009, the number of collaborative projects which includes more than two academic majors in the university has decreased by 28 percent over the past three years. On the other hands, project that can be done in one particular resource were spreading drastically. This indirectly shows that even in academic fields, not only in work place, the collaborative work is not recommendable. In brief, collaborating to do some taxing projects with others seems like great and attractive sufficiently. However, it is not that much helpful for people to be hired by famous companies and actually it's importance is lower than it is in the past. Therefore, we ought not to put the importance of cooperation on the top of other factors in life. |