Chapter 68 – Episode 68
A few days have passed since then.
‘It seems like Ga-hye’s parents were persuaded to some extent, and we can say this is clear. Now how do I convince my parents…’
I kept trying to make plans to make both of them my own, but there was no time.
It was because things at work suddenly went crazy.
“Interview?”
On the first day back to work after vacation, my boss told me to participate in an interview.
Not as a candidate, but as an interviewer.
“Aren’t you and I the only ones in this company right now? So, I would like some help with the interview. Are you okay?”
Of course, you should do what you are told.
“How many people are you planning to hire?”
“Hmm… “Eight people?”
Quite a bit.
No, is it a lot to think that this person came back to Korea on vacation?
“First, I think I’ll divide the team into two teams. So, you will need 4–5 people per team. Isn’t that right?”
“Yes, of course.”
Boss, didn’t you come to Korea to rest?
“With two teams, things should run reasonably leisurely.”
You just have different standards than me.
“So, please give me an interview notice and schedule. How do we select people here?”
“In general, I think it would be okay to post a job posting on the Internet and run advertisements… “
“Have you ever chosen someone?”
“Yes.”
I was a junior employee at my previous company.
“Uhm, well… There was no way I was going to be interviewed when I was working in the field.”
After saying that, the boss picked up the phone and immediately called someone.
“Hello? Oh, are you Sehun? I am Noeun. Oh, yeah, did you get home safely last Saturday? What? Are you a kid? Haha, of course I’m asking how you’re doing.”
The other person seems to be a close person.
“Okay, okay, I got in too… Uh, it’s no different, but can you teach me how to select people? I must have hired someone in Korea… Uh, uhh. When is the time? 7 o’clock this evening? While eating dinner? Okay, okay… I’m taking one person. So reserve three seats. Uh, okay. Thanks. Okay, then, I’ll see you later.”
Beep.
“Junseok, do you have any plans for dinner tonight?”
“No, it’s okay.”
“Thank you. My friend told me what to pay attention to when selecting people, but I think I should listen to him over dinner. “You don’t have to worry about food costs, and I’ll even pay you overtime pay.”
He is the real boss, as he even provides overtime pay for company dinners.
“Yes, I understand.”
I nodded.
By the way, who is the boss’ friend that tells him what to pay attention to when selecting people?
Looking at the CEO’s age and connections, do you think he could be the head of the human resources department of a large company?
‘A person like that would know everything from one to ten.’
Okay, then you just have to listen to that person and do what he tells you.
After thinking about it, I told Gahye and Nayu’s group chat that I would have dinner today.
But I didn’t know at this time.
How careless my thoughts were…
***
7 p.M.
My boss and I arrived at a Japanese restaurant in Jongno, Seoul.
It was an old yet classy-looking Japanese restaurant. As soon as we entered, a staff member came out and showed us to our room.
‘It looks really expensive.’
I almost felt a little intimidated, but now I’m slowly getting used to it.
Thanks to the many times I have experienced how great my boss is, I am now a little used to this level of grandeur.
“Oh, welcome.”
When we arrived in the room, there was a man who had been there before.
“Hey, did you come here first?”
“Huh. “The previous work ended earlier than expected.”
A man giggling and gesturing for the boss and me to sit down.
We sat across from the man.
After sitting down, I looked at the man.
He was a middle-aged man who looked lively.
She looked similar in age to the boss, but had a better body than the boss.
It must be said that you have to take good care of yourself to not have a poopy stomach at that age.
After all, people in high positions at large companies have thorough self-management.
“Okay, let me introduce it first. “This is Lee Jun-seok, the leader of our company’s Team 1.”
“Hello, my name is Lee Jun-seok.”
“Hehe, nice to meet you.”
The man held out his hand, and I held out both hands and held the man’s hand.
After shaking hands lightly, the boss opened his mouth.
“And Jun-seok, this is my friend Park Se-hoon. “I am currently working at the National Intelligence Service.”
… Yes?
Where do you work?
“Probably the position… “
“No, no, you can’t talk about that carelessly. Even so, it is a state secret.”
“You? State secret? Haha!”
“Hey dude, why are you laughing so hard!”
“It makes me laugh every time I hear it, hey! And you just told me.”
“It doesn’t matter to you. Still, you shouldn’t just say it.”
No, that dick.
The National Intelligence Service is a civil servant, right?
No, I’m not just a civil servant…
“This is a bit ambiguous since this guy won’t let me talk… Anyway, he’s a high-ranking person in the human resources department.”
“I told you everything about that!”
“It’s okay, I can trust you, Jun-seok.”
A boss who supports me in front of my friends.
Park Se-hoon, who saw that, clicked his tongue but laughed it off.
“Junseok, you know what the National Intelligence Service is, right?”
“Yes? Well, uh, so… “
“Haha, you don’t seem to know!”
Park Se-hoon smiles cheerfully.
Am I screwed?
I desperately tried to remember in my head what the National Intelligence Service does.
“Seeing as you don’t know what I’m doing, I guess I’m a good person!”
“Right?”
Thank goodness.
I’m glad I didn’t say anything.
“Excuse me.”
At that moment, a voice was heard along with a knock outside.
Then the waiter came in and laid out a simple salad and a few side dishes in front of us.
“I ordered omakase, was it okay?”
“Yeah, I’m fine. “You are buying it all.”
“Do you like freebies and end up going bald?”
“It’s okay because it’s still abundant.”
No, no no, wait a minute.
Is it okay to get something this expensive from someone at the National Intelligence Service?
“Haha, don’t be so nervous.”
As if reading my expression, Park Se-hoon smiled brightly and spoke to me.
“I just want to have a meal with a friend.”
“Ah, yes. Thank you… “
“If I buy it, will you end up in trouble with the law?”
“Yekki, are you just going to use that as an excuse to keep taking advantage of it?”
“Cluck, I got caught.”
The owner and Park Se-hoon keep joking around.
Meanwhile, I was the only one shedding a cold sweat.
***
During the long meal, I heard a lot of advice from Park Se-hoon.
“It is easiest to conduct a background check after passing the first round. If you do it before, it’s too much work, and if you do it after, it’ll be too much of a waste.”
Is it necessary to conduct such a background check when selecting people to work at a design office?
I had that question, but of course I quietly buried it in myself.
“Announcement? Oh, that’s right. We just had to post a quick notice and that was it. What is a private company? Can’t it be posted on something like Alba Heaven?”
Alba Heaven is a place that hires part-time workers.
Still, since you are recruiting employees, a full-time employee recruitment site like Humanin would be better than Alba Heaven.
Of course, these words were quietly buried inside me and I never took them out.
I don’t know, but maybe I could just pay some money and post an announcement.
This is something I can just learn on my own.
“This is our scorecard. Please refer to it. It will be useful. Still, you put a lot of thought into making it fair, right?”
Saying that, what Park Se-hoon handed over was a 10-page document with an employment evaluation standard written on it.
It was written in great detail about what criteria were needed when selecting people and how each criterion was scored.
“Can we give you something like this?”
“This is just a rough note, so it’s okay. We didn’t give them the exact grading criteria, but I roughly created a framework based on the grading table. For reference only, for reference only.”
Uh… Are you saying that starting with the definition of each criterion and writing down in detail how to score each criterion in a 10-page document is just rough writing?
‘Is this the kind of note that the No. 1 person in the country just roughly organized?’
Of course, I just accepted the document and looked at it without saying anything.
After listening to the half-chitchat and half-advice for a while, I was able to roughly organize in my head how to run the hiring process.
‘Okay, let’s just take care of it.’
This person’s advice is just too much.
Things that would be perfect if done as instructed, but are not really necessary for an architectural firm like us.
I literally just have to take it as advice and take care of it myself.
That was my conclusion.
***
A few days later, after receiving confirmation from the boss, I posted a recruitment notice on a talent recruitment site.
When I actually wanted to post a recruitment notice, it was difficult because there were a lot of things to worry about.
From simple provisions to laws… There was a lot to consider and a lot to prepare.
Besides, aren’t I a complete novice at HR-related work? It is bound to be difficult.
But surprisingly, the advice I heard from Park Se-hoon the other day was very helpful.
Opinions that were thought to be jokes or too burdensome actually turned out to be very necessary advice.
“Thank you for your hard work. Was the advice my friend gave you helpful?’
“Ah yes. It was very helpful.”
“Thank god. “This friend was secretly worried about whether what he said was useful.”
This is advice given by someone from the National Intelligence Service’s Human Resources Department. How could it not be helpful?
After that, for several days, I continued to work on this recruitment notice.
It was a lot of hard work to read and review the resumes that came after posting a job posting.
‘It will be late today too…’ ‘
As I was forced to work overtime every day, it became a routine to apologize to Gahye and Nayu every evening.
As a result, I thought about doing something roughly, but as I worked, those thoughts naturally gave up.
It was thanks to people’s resumes.
‘And. Were there so many crazy people?’
When I reviewed resumes, I was able to see all kinds of people.
The person whose career history was strange, or who wrote a pathetic self-introduction was in the pharmacy department.
Following Park Se-hoon’s advice, I did a quick background check on the strong-looking resume and found that it was full of unimaginable human trash.
‘Why wasn’t this bastard who was going around architectural offices, digging up information and selling it, caught?’
‘Wow, did you poop and run away from where you used to work? Really?’
‘He was a guy who only seduced married women and ruined every office he went to…’ What on earth is this… ‘
When I looked at the resumes of those people, I thought, ‘I really need to be good at hiring people.’
At the same time, my remorse for trying to make both Ga-hye and Na-yu mine also diminished.
In fact, I always thought that marrying two women was morally wrong.
But is it thanks to looking at strange people? I started to feel like what I was trying to do wasn’t really that big of a deal.
Besides, aren’t I trying to be recognized by people around me?
This is really conscientious.
That’s what I think.
‘Maybe it’s just an excuse.’
Still, it wasn’t a bad feeling to feel that way.
I guess I continued to have remorse without realizing it.
Just because I felt that way, I never thought that the task of looking at resumes itself would feel quite good.
So I continued to review resumes and select candidates.
And a few days later, the first interview day arrived.
