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Permalink Reply by Blair A on April 25, 2010 at 11:09am

Can you speak Korean well? If not I'm not sure if translating your resume is a good idea, as it may send the message that you can communicate in Korean.

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Permalink Reply by David Clark on April 25, 2010 at 12:44pm

Hi Blair -

Thanks for the reply, much appreciated.

To answer your question (as best I can), I speak Korean well enough to communicate in every-day situations, but if I had to negotiate the terms of a job, or translate most of the technical vocabulary and phrases in my resume, I'd be at a loss.

Thoughts?

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Permalink Reply by Blair A on April 25, 2010 at 12:54pm

I dont have much experience job searching in Korea, but I have studied and worked here for several years in the past and will begin my own job seach in the upcoming months. And based on my time here, my thoughts are that if you are appying for a position where a Korean resume is needed then you will need to be fairly fluent in Korean to work there. If you don't mind me asking, what type of job are your looking for here in Korea?

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Permalink Reply by David Clark on April 27, 2010 at 8:23am

Hi Blair -

Thanks again for the reply. Sorry for the delayed response.

Sounds like you've been in Korea for a while - I take it you've enjoyed yourself enough to stick around for another couple/few years?

I hear what you're saying about positions requiring Korean resumes, and I would agree with you. Whether or not I apply for that sort of position is still to be decided - I was more interested in going through the motions, and having a Korean version on-hand regardless of being asked for it or not. A complement of sorts.

Areas of interest = trade/investment promotions, (national) branding, tourism

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Permalink Reply by David Clark on April 27, 2010 at 8:26am

Still in search of templates, formats, and/or examples.

Regards,

David Clark

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Permalink Reply by Lee Jisun on April 27, 2010 at 8:45am

Hi David.
You can refer to mine. (It's not the best one per se, but it's been working out good for me so far)

Attaching one's own picture in the resume is highly recommended in Korea.

Hope this can help.

Attachments:

• 이지선_이력서.doc, 51 KB

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Permalink Reply by David Clark on April 27, 2010 at 10:57am

Jisun -

Thank you much - I appreciate you sharing.

Is it standard to have two pages, as opposed to the (American/western) standard of one?

Regardless, this will be a great example to work with and keep in mind - thank you, Jisun.

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Permalink Reply by Ondrej Slechta on April 27, 2010 at 2:50pm

What a nice resume, Jisun!

Western resumes are full of buzz words, power verbs, and empty self-marketing messages. Korean resumes state just facts, as if somebody was just taking notes during an interview.

I must admit that I like Korean standards better. I was recently hiring two colleagues and from an interviewer perspective simply written resumes much more appealing. Interviewers don't have time to read though tons of words, they're just looking for a couple of key words.

But maybe it's just me. I would probably turn down my own western style resume.

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Permalink Reply by Regina Kim on December 11, 2011 at 12:31pm

"Western resumes are full of buzz words, power verbs, and empty self-marketing messages. Korean resumes state just facts, as if somebody was just taking notes during an interview."

I don't know why, but I just found this statement to be funny.  I couldn't agree with you more!

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Permalink Reply by Rico Kim on January 5, 2012 at 2:44pm

Hi David,

I am like you in that I can speak Korean conversationally but am frequently lost by business words, etc.

I do not have a Korean resume.

I have been searching for jobs in Korea and recently there have been many requests for a Korean resume, but as mentioned here, it might send out the wrong message that I'm fluent in Korean and/or the very fact that they want a Korean resume probably means fluency is required in the role anyway.

So I'm wandering if it's worth translating mine, as it will take a while.

My question is, did you have any success after translating yours?

Thanks!

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