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Hosted by Korea University Business School (Dean=Dr. Bae, Johngseok) and held by KUBS Career Development Center, the 4th Career Week was held on January 21st (Thu). The Career Week is consisted of two sessions - Employment and Corporate special lectures which help students explore their careers.
Employment lectures are designed to receive practical help from job consulting experts on job preparation strategies, self-introduction letters, and interview response strategies, while corporate lectures are designed to focus on introducing industries, duties, and recent issues by inviting corporate incumbents working in various fields. All lectures were conducted online due to COVID-19.
In the morning employment lecture session, university business mentor Kim Tae-jong gave a lecture on the theme of "Interview Response Strategies". He began his lecture by saying, "Interviews are an extension of the self-introduction letter, and furthermore, the interests and self-development that you have been accumulating for more than 20 years." In other words, interviews cannot be prepared in a rush. Several practical strategies were then introduced to prepare for interviews, one of which is the "Inside Out Questioning Method," a brainstorming strategy to prepare for interviews. It is a questioning method that starts with questions about yourself and expands to questions about jobs, corporations, and industries.
The employment lecture in the afternoon was held by Kim Jae-eun, director of Standard Chartered Bank, under the title "Understanding the Asset Management Business and My Career." Director Kim Jae-eun explained some basic knowledge, such as the definition and type of the financial industry, and then introduced the financial Big Blur phenomenon, which emerged with the advent of the 4th industrial revolution. This means that the boundary between the financial and ICT industries will be broken.
"There are many different types of financial businesses, and specific career plans are important as the financial industry has expanded due to the Big Blur phenomenon," director Kim advised. In particular, she pointed out that students who set their careers in the financial industry tend to think traditional banks separately from Techpin and Big Tech industries, stressing that "they should think more broadly about how to enter the financial industry and the knowledge needed in the industry."
This concluded the ‘Career Week’ which has been held four times since October 2020, with the active participation of students. In 2021, KUBS Career Development Center will help students design their jobs and careers by holding various seminars and special lectures based on students’ demand.