Day 30: Who Names the Salary First?
On a TV careers programme, host Kim Jinsu (A) talks about salary negotiation with HR director Park Mijin (B), headhunter Choi Donguk (C) and office worker Lee Sua (D), who recently changed jobs.
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Dialogue
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A ์ด๋ฒ ์ฃผ ์ฃผ์ ๋ ์ฐ๋ด ํ์์ ๋๋ค. ๋จผ์ ์ต๊ทผ์ ์ด์งํ์ ์ด์์ ์จ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ถํฐ ๋ค์ด ๋ณด๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.
Ibeon ju jujeneun yeonbong hyeopsangimnida. Meonjeo choegeune ijikasin Lee Sua ssi iyagibuteo deureo bogetseumnida.
This week's topic is salary negotiation. Let's start with Lee Sua, who changed jobs recently.
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D ๋ค, ์ ๋ ์๋ ์ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ง์ผ๋ก ์ด์งํ๋๋ฐ์, ์ฒซ ์ ์์ ๋ฃ๊ณ ๊ทธ๋๋ก ๋ฐ์๋ค์์ต๋๋ค.
Ne, jeoneun jangnyeone gyeongnyeokjigeuro ijikaenneundeyo, cheot jeaneul deutgo geudaero badadeuryeotseumnida.
Yes, I moved to a new company last year as an experienced hire, and I accepted the first offer just as it was.
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A ๋ง์ค์ด์ง ์์ผ์ จ์ต๋๊น?
Mangseoriji aneusyeotseumnikka?
You didn't hesitate?
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D ์ธ์ฌ ๋ด๋น์๊ฐ ์ค๋ ์์ ๊ณ์ฝํ์๊ธฐ์ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ๋์น ๊น ๋ด ๊ฒ์ด ๋ฌ๊ฑฐ๋ ์. ๋์ค์ ์๊ณ ๋ณด๋ ๊ฐ์ ํ ์ ์ฌ ๋๊ธฐ๋ณด๋ค ์ฐ๋ด์ด ํจ์ฌ ๋ฎ์์ต๋๋ค.
Insa damdangjaga oneul ane gyeyakajagie geureoke haetseumnida. Gihoereul notchilkka bwa geobi natgeodeunyo. Najunge algo boni gateun tim ipsa donggiboda yeonbongi hwolssin najatseumnida.
The HR person said we should sign the contract that same day, so I did. I was scared of missing the chance. Later I found out I was paid much less than someone who joined my team at the same time.
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B ์ํ๊น์ง๋ง ํํ ์ผ์ ๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ์ ์ฅ์์๋ ์ง์์๊ฐ ๋จผ์ ํฌ๋ง ์ฐ๋ด์ ๋งํด ์ฃผ๋ฉด ํธํ๊ฑฐ๋ ์.
Antakkapjiman heunhan irimnida. Hoesa ipjangeseoneun jiwonjaga meonjeo huimang yeonbongeul malhae jumyeon pyeonhageodeunyo.
It's a shame, but it happens a lot. From the company's side, it's convenient when the applicant names their expected salary first.
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C ๊ทธ๋์ ์ ๋ ๊ตฌ์ง์๋ถ๋ค๊ป ์ ๋ ๋จผ์ ์ซ์๋ฅผ ๋งํ์ง ๋ง๋ผ๊ณ ์กฐ์ธํฉ๋๋ค. ๋จผ์ ๋งํ๋ ์ชฝ์ด ๋๊ฐ ์ํด๋ฅผ ๋ด ๋๋ค.
Geuraeseo jeoneun gujikjabundeulkke jeoldae meonjeo sutjareul malhaji mallago joeonhamnida. Meonjeo malhaneun jjogi daegae sonhaereul bomnida.
That's why I advise candidates never to name a number first. Whoever speaks first usually loses out.
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B ๊ธ์์, ์ ๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ์ข ๋ค๋ฆ ๋๋ค. ์ง์์๊ฐ ๊ธฐ์ค์ ๋จผ์ ์ ์ํ๋ฉด ํ์์ด ์คํ๋ ค ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋๋๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๊ฐ ๋ง์ต๋๋ค.
Geulsseyo, jeoneun saenggagi jom dareumnida. Jiwonjaga gijuneul meonjeo jesihamyeon hyeopsangi ohiryeo ppalli kkeunnaneun gyeonguga manseumnida.
Well, I see it a little differently. When applicants set out their figure first, negotiations often end faster.
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C ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋๋๋ฉด ํ์ฌ์ ์ข์ ์ผ์ด์ง์. ์ค๋ง ์ธ์ฌํ์ด ์ง์์์๊ฒ ์ ๋ฆฌํ ์ซ์๋ฅผ ๋จผ์ ๊บผ๋ด๋ ค๊ณ ์?
Ppalli kkeunnamyeon hoesae joeun irijiyo. Seolma insatimi jiwonjaege yurihan sutjareul meonjeo kkeonaeryeogoyo?
Ending fast is good for the company. Surely you don't expect HR to bring up a number that favours the applicant?
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B ์ ํฌ๋ ์ข์ ์ธ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๋์น๊ณ ์ถ์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. ์์ฅ ์์ค๋ณด๋ค ๋๋ฌด ๋ฎ๊ฒ ๋์ฐํ๋ฉด ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๊ทธ ์ฌ๋์ด ๊ธ๋ฐฉ ๋ ๋๋๊น์.
Jeohuido joeun injaereul notchigo sipji anseumnida. Sijang sujunboda neomu natge daeuhamyeon gyeolguk geu sarami geumbang tteonanikkayo.
We don't want to lose good people either. If we pay far below the market rate, the person just leaves soon anyway.
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A ๊ทธ๋ ๋ค๋ฉด ์ง์์์๊ฒ๋ ์ด๋ค ์ ๋ต์ด ํ์ํฉ๋๊น? ์์ฅ ์์ค์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ ์ ์์ต๋๊น?
Geureotamyeon jiwonjaegeneun eotteon jeollyagi piryohamnikka? Sijang sujuneun eotteoke al su itseumnikka?
Then what strategy do applicants need? How can they find out the market rate?
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C ๊ฐ์ ์ ๊ณ ์ฌ๋๋ค์๊ฒ ๋ฌป๊ฑฐ๋ ์ฐ๋ด ์ ๋ณด ์ฌ์ดํธ๋ฅผ ์ฐธ๊ณ ํ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ซ์ ํ๋๋ณด๋ค ๋ฒ์๋ก ๋ง์ํ์๋ ๊ฒ ์ข์ต๋๋ค.
Gateun eopgye saramdeurege mutgeona yeonbong jeongbo saiteureul chamgohamyeon doemnida. Geurigo sutja hanaboda beomwiro malsseumhasineun ge joseumnida.
Ask people in the same industry, or check salary websites. And it's better to give a range than a single number.
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D ์ ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ํ์ด์ผ ํ๋๋ฐ์. ๋์๋ณด๋ฉด ์ ๊ฐ ์ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ ๊ณผ์ํ๊ฐํ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ด ๋ง๊ณ ๋ ๋ฐ์ ธ ๋ณผ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ๋ง์๊ณ ์.
Jeodo geuttae geureoke haesseoya haenneundeyo. Dorabomyeon jega je gyeongnyeogeul gwasopyeonggahaetdeon geot gatseumnida. Yeonbong malgodo ttajyeo bol jogeoni manatgoyo.
I should have done that too. Looking back, I think I undervalued my own experience. And there were lots of conditions to weigh besides salary.
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B ๋ง์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌํ๊ทผ๋ฌด๋ ๊ต์ก ์ง์, ์์ฌ๊ธ์ฒ๋ผ ์ฐ๋ด ์ธ์ ์กฐ๊ฑด๋ ์ถฉ๋ถํ ํ์ํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
Matseumnida. Jaetaekgeunmuna gyoyuk jiwon, sangyeogeumcheoreom yeonbong oeui jogeondo chungbunhi hyeopsanghal su itseumnida.
That's right. Things beyond salary, like remote work, training support or bonuses, can be negotiated too.
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A ์ด์์ ์จ, ๋ค์์ ์ด์งํ์ ๋ค๋ฉด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๊น?
Lee Sua ssi, daeume ijikasindamyeon eotteoke hasigetseumnikka?
Ms. Lee, what would you do if you changed jobs again?
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D ๊ทธ ์๋ฆฌ์์ ์๋ช ํ์ง ์๊ณ ํ๋ฃจ๋ง ์๊ฐํ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ฌ๋ผ๊ณ ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.
Geu jarieseo seomyeonghaji anko haruman saenggakal siganeul dallago hagetseumnida.
I wouldn't sign on the spot. I'd ask for just one day to think it over.
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C ์ข์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ค๋ง ํ๋ฃจ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ค ๋ฌ๋ผ๊ณ ํ๋ค๊ณ ํ์ฌ๊ฐ ์ ์์ ์ทจ์ํ๋ ค๊ณ ์? ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๋ ๊ฑฐ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
Joeun bangbeobimnida. Seolma haru gidaryeo dallago haetdago hoesaga jeaneul chwisoharyeogoyo? Geureon gyeonguneun geoui eopseumnida.
That's a good approach. Would a company really withdraw an offer just because you asked for a day? That hardly ever happens.
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A ์ค๋ ๋ง์ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ์์ฒญ์ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ๋ ๋ค์ ํ์์์๋ ์๋๋ฅด์ง ๋ง์ญ์์ค.
Oneul malsseum gamsahamnida. Sicheongja yeoreobundo daeum hyeopsangeseoneun seodureuji masipsio.
Thank you all. And viewers, don't rush your next negotiation.
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