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제166호> MBAs getting their hands dirty 2002년 07월 02일
라는 제목의 기사가 1991년 말 FORTUNE지에
게재되었다. 요지인즉,
미국의 주요 경영대학원에서 MBA 후보들에게
생산현장에서 일한 경력을 입증하여야
학위를 준다는 것이었고, 이에 기꺼이 학생들이
생산현장에서 땀흘려 일하는
산학의 새로운 풍토가 조성되고 있다는 내용이었다.
당시에는 한국에서 3D라고 하여
한국의 젊은애들이 dirty, dangerous,그담에 머져?
그런 일을 하지 않는 풍조가 조성되고 있을 때였고
따라서, 당시 필자가 매일경제신문사 <주간매경>
에 연재하고 있던 "비즈니스 영어"의 92.1.15.자에
그 기사를 축약하여 옮겼습니다.
시시영어학원에서 그 <주간매경> 기사 사본을 주면서
주말에 읽어보라고 한
다음 주 월요일 오후 강의.
학생들이 신문지를 펼쳐놓구서 눈이 충혈되도록
울고 있었습니다. 도대체 왜 그러느냐?
고 물었더니, 이 신문을 좀 보라는 것이었는데.
조쏘닐보 닐리리 맘보였습니다. 그기에는 기가 막히게도
<미국 MBA 시세 없어 ... 일 잘 하고 월급 싼
학부 출신들 선호>
라는 제목으로 기사가 미국 특파원발 기사로
나 있었는데.
다른 기사겠지? 하구서 아무리 들여다 보아도
그 기사였습니다.
MBAs getting their hands dirty
라는 기사는, FORTUNE지 기자가 직접 취재를 한 것도
아니었고,
"일본의 어느 중소기업 수준 미국지사가
자체 인력으로 파악 조사한 통계와 자료를"
FORTUNE지 기자가 받아서 인용 보도한 것 뿐이었고.
닐리리 맘보를 아무리 다시 들여다보아도
회사 이름 ... Eastman Kodak, General Motors,
Northern Telecom, Sara Lee, and Xerox 이나
학교 이름 ... Duke School, Rochester, and Wake Forest, 심지어 MBA과정으로도 정평이 있는 Columbia 대학원 이름까지도
"같은 기사"였습니다.
1. 일본 중소기업 수준의 미국지사의
그 가당한 노력에 새삼 놀라기도 하였지만
2. FORTUNE은 격주간지(bi-weekly)이고, 그 기사를
한국에서 읽고서 필자가 주간지에 옮겼고,
그 주간지가 발행이 되고 그것의 사본을 학생들에게
나누어 준 다음 주에
개한민국의 일간지에서 웃기게도 미국특파원 보도
라고 나왔다는 사실 자체. 즉
보도 속도에 있어서도, 그 자체가 수치요 모욕이거늘.
오히려 정 반대의 주장(사실은 개수작이고 개나발이져?... 이런 더럽고 하찮은 벌레들하고 살면
내가 자꾸 성격이 그렇게 되고 언어가, 언어가...)
을 하고 있는 엄연한 사실을 접하고
울고 있는 학생들에게 말했져.
거 바라. 내가 모랬니?
너희들, 외신을 국어책 읽듯이 읽지 못하면
저런 버러지만도 못한 것들의 놀리개감이 되는
아주 무식하고 황당하고 비참한 존재가 된다고 했지?
그 말을 해주고서는, 도저희 수업을 할 수가 없을 것 같아서
그 뉴욕특파원인지 하는 개버러지도 분명히
대학다닐 때 또는 취업하고자 또는 미국으로 발령
받아서 나가기 전, 그 시시영어학언에
왔다리 갔다리 했을 것이라는 생각이 퍼뜩 들어서는,
강사실에 올라가서, 대뜸 이렇게 말했습니다.
"영어좀 똑바로 가르칠 수 없어?
이 개색이한테 영어 가르친 인간이 누구야?
이렇게 밖에 못 가르쳐?"
미국을 갔다 온 외대 출신 젊은 여선생이
"아니, 이주영 선생님. 왜 그렇게 화를 내시느냐"
기에 닐니리 맘보와 주간매경과 당시 가방에
넣어갖고 댕기는 FORTUNE을 보라고 내밀었습니다.
당신도 눈이 있으면 한번 보라구.
젊은 여선생은 이주영 선생보다도 똑똑(?)하더군요.
"이게 영어가 안 되서 그랬겠어요?
그러잖아도. 이 기사를 보고서 내 친구가 전화가
왔더라구요.
얘. 요새 미국 MBA 시세 없다며?
그 질문을 받고서 있었던 차인데
... 세상에나 이렇군요...
특파원이 제대로 썼어도, DESK에서 바꾸었을 수도
있고..."
그 여선생은 얼마 있다가 다시 미국으로 가버렸습니다.
Welcome to South Republic Corea.
Now, enjoy your lunch. OK?
..................................
이주영의 영어제국
http:column.daum.net/ENGLISHEMPIRE/
MBAs Take New Look
At Government Jobs
By STEVEN WEINSTEIN
Ryan Leirvik is a 2002 graduate of the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western University in Cleveland. He has the kind of experience at International Business Machines Corp. that would make him an attractive candidate for a lucrative job as a consultant or systems analyst. Instead, Leirvik is doing something that until recently would have been considered M.B.A. career suicide: He's going to work for the federal government.
Leirvik will be working as a strategic planner at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, part of the team that will implement an agency-wide reorganization. He attributes his interest to patriotism but doesn't believe he's making a sacrifice.
"My interest was piqued after Sept. 11, but I decided that working for an agency like the FBI gave me the perfect opportunity to bring private-sector experience to public life," he says. "What's going on with the FBI affects all Americans. I can lend a perspective on what the private sector would do." The starting salary isn't as much as he would be making elsewhere, he admits. But, he says, "It serves as a good investment for dividends later. There's plenty of room to grow."
Leirvik is part of a budding new trend among M.B.A.s, who have considered the federal government a deadend for unimaginative bureaucrats who made a fraction as much as their counterparts in consulting or investment banking. Sept. 11, combined with a tepid job market, is changing some minds. To be sure, the government can't compete financially with the top spots in the private sector. But it can offer job security -- a fact that looks increasingly attractive in the wake of corporate layoffs and failed companies.
Recruitment Ramps Up
The government is still playing catch-up with the private sector in recruitment. But with half the federal work force eligible for retirement within the next five years, and the government ramping up its watchdogs in the wake of Sept. 11 and a rash of business scandals, this effort has taken on new urgency. "It could be the beginning of a trend," says Mel Penn, corporate relations executive at the Michael F. Price College of Business at Oklahoma University and president of the M.B.A. Career Services Council, an association of graduate management career counselors. "Certainly the government has a demographic problem and it's growing worse by the day." But whether government agencies will take steps to become more competitive remains to be seen, he says.
Several government agencies, including the FBI, Central Intelligence Agency, Agency for International Development, the National Marine Fisheries Service, the General Accounting Office and the Department of Health and Human Services, have either announced plans to ramp up their M.B.A. recruitment or are already seeking graduates at job fairs and in placement offices. And they're out to impress. The GAO, for example, shows a video montage of TV news generated by the agency's investigations at M.B.A. job fairs.
These agencies may not be able to offer the same starting salaries as the Goldman Sachs Group. But they offer a less tangible reward: the sense of mission missing from many corporate jobs." Besides, Leirvik adds, "Let's say I'd gone into a consulting firm: I'd be doing [the same work] over and over again. Here, I'll be able to implement the process. This is ongoing, more hands-on. I'll be seeing a project through all the stages."
'The West Wing' Effect
Some of these agencies have promised fast-track promotions and even a signing bonus of $5,000 for top candidates. Stories of dot-com flameouts, bankruptcies and raided pension funds have made the government more attractive as well. After all, the federal government will never go out of business. Further down the road, M.B.A.s who choose to move into the private sector will bring with them valuable contacts and insider knowledge of how government operates.
"What seems to be happening now is that with layoffs in every industry, some agencies are seizing the moment, increasing salaries and matching perks," notes Ryan D'Agostino, senior editor of the magazine MBA Jungle. "They're shaking the whole image of government as dusty and boring by hiring really smart people and giving them a whole lot of room to move up. It's not just 'Here's your desk for the next 30 years.' " As D'Agostino points out, George W. Bush, America's first M.B.A. president, is trying to run the federal government like a private corporation, including using professional managers.
Historically, interest in government service has come in waves. When Franklin Roosevelt initiated the New Deal, flocks of businessmen joined him. John F. Kennedy lured Harvard grads, the "best and the brightest," to help implement his social policies. By the time Ronald Reagan proclaimed that government was "the problem, not the solution," Vietnam and Watergate had soured top applicants. The government became a career backwater filled with time-servers or scoundrels.
Max Stiergood, president of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit organization in Washington formed to boost recruitment for the federal government, says the television show "The West Wing" is fueling a perception of government work as fulfilling and even glamorous. "Because of Sept. 11, the government is relevant in a way it hasn't been for generations," Stiergood says. "The government needs to respond by getting out the word about new opportunities."
In the News
Mary Ellison, chief recruiter for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, is trying to present an image of an agency on the forefront of today's biggest corporate news stories. In the wake of scandals such as those at Enron Corp., Global Crossing Ltd. and WorldCom Inc., she reports a new level of interest for professionals needed to police highly complex stock transactions and bookkeeping. "Every time we're in the news, we get hits on our Web site," she says. "There's been a dramatic increase in the last six to eight months, so we're very encouraged by that." Still, the pay can't compete with Wall Street. At the top of the scale, a financial economist at the SEC could pull in only $90,000 in annual base pay.
The SEC has always maintained a high-quality work force, which meant increased workloads for the understaffed agency during the boom years. Now, however, the SEC is fielding more phone calls from professionals with industry experience and from high-ranking schools. Rather than playing down the revolving door between regulators and the regulated, Ellison emphasizes the advantage SEC experience can bring to professionals when they return to the private sector. "I say it in front of every group: 'If you're serious about the securities industry, you'll want to spend time with us,' " she says. In some cases, she adds, the direction has reversed, with many executives leaving the private sector to join her agency. "We're different from other agencies," she notes. "Many have a stint in the industry and then return to us."
In the past, government recruiters "were avoided like the plague" on campus, says Fran Cort, dean at the Weatherhead School of Management. For the first time in the school's history, the FBI and CIA were included in an M.B.A. job fair, with a long line of students grabbing applications. What especially impresses Cort is the fact that most students who chose government work had other job offers. "Students' sensitivities were definitely heightened to a more patriotic view," Cort says. "But with the job market trickier this year, it was more attractive." One 2002 Weatherhead grad has even accepted a job as a midlevel manager in the U.S. Postal Service, long considered the dead-letter office of fast-track management.
More Meaningful Work
After Joe Lesser received his M.B.A. in 2000 from American University, he looked at some private-sector jobs. But he joined the AID as an economic-development specialist, a job that combines his interest in business and international affairs. "After two years, the salary is as high or higher than if I had stayed in the private sector," he says. He's developing technology trade within Eastern Europe, a job that gives him, he says, "more fulfillment and meaning in my work."
Deb Berube goes Lesser one better. After receiving an M.B.A. from Wheeling Jesuit University in the 1990s, she went on to earn a master's in health administration and a law degree. Her job as a staff attorney in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services allows her to bring all of her education and prior experience to bear -- but without the grueling 60-hour workweeks she put in at a law firm. "In the legal field, if you have a brief due, you have to get it done," she says. "Now, it's more human. The quality of life is better. If you work on Saturdays, you get comp time."
For many, however, job fulfillment doesn't replace the security of a fat paycheck. The government still may be a tough sell to students who want to start families or have to pay off hefty business-school loans. Peace Corps veteran Ben Nichols, another 2002 Weatherhead M.B.A., believes in the government's ability to help cure social ills and is considering jobs at the Department of Housing and Urban Development or the African bureau of AID But his concern that a government job can't support his family in Washington led him to turn down a job there. So he's negotiating for a similar job - at the same salary -- in Cleveland, where he now lives.
In order to woo candidates like Nichols, the government must streamline its hiring process and guarantee rewards down the line for high performance, Stiergood says. "Perceptions affect reality," he notes. "The federal government has done a poor job of talking itself up. But the government is in transition and has begun addressing what needs to be done. People make generalizations about the government that they don't make about the private sector."
-- Mr. Weinstein a free-lance writer in New York.
대학생 The Wall Street Journal
http:column.daum.net/edosabestREADING/
이주영의 영어제국
http:column.daum.net/ENGLISHEMPIRE
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