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Xie Lin
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Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 3:52 am Post subject: |
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Young and energetic personality
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Awwww, darn! I guess I can't apply!
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scot47
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Lack
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Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2015 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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Writing "essays" as part of an "application"? I'm trying to wrap my head around this one. If it's a scam, what could possibly be the purpose of that? It looks like a scam, except it's just a time-waster that benefits neither side. Points for creativity I guess...normally they just go for the kill (please insert X dollars to receive a job!) so this is odd. |
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spiral78
Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash
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Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2015 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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Essays for Sale, dude |
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Stuka
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Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2015 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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Lack wrote: |
Writing "essays" as part of an "application"? I'm trying to wrap my head around this one. If it's a scam, what could possibly be the purpose of that? It looks like a scam, except it's just a time-waster that benefits neither side. Points for creativity I guess...normally they just go for the kill (please insert X dollars to receive a job!) so this is odd. |
It's a well-known psychological fact that the harder you work for something and the more time you invest in it the greater your desire for an eventual payoff will be.(Put another way you might say that the more you suffer for something, the greater value you attribute to that something when you finally get it.) For example, students that work hard on their degree and get a good result are more likely to see their good result as a payoff/reward for hard work. Likewise, someone who has been kept waiting on a phone for 30 mins is more likely to keep holding than someone who has just waited for 5 mins. Writing all these essays and going through numerous interview and being told to jump through various hoops to get this job in sunny Mauritius would cause much work and consternation and, when asked to cough up cash to be placed, you'd pay up immediately to release the tension accrued over the course of the rigorous interview process. Scam complete. |
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spiral78
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Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2015 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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Plus they have essays for sale |
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Stuka
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Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2015 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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spiral78 wrote: |
Plus they have essays for sale |
Yes, nice little sideline that. |
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Double_Dragon
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jpvanderwerf2001
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Stuka wrote: |
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Their website is certainly a red flag; it lacks key information such as who's who (i.e., their anonymous leadership and staff), actual descriptions of their courses, their physical address, etc. |
Actually, their website could quite easily be the websites of any for-profit education company today who have much to hide. |
The web site is hilarious! In addition to the misspellings (note to self: avoid schools that cannot spell "curriculum" correctly), this random IELTS chart is comic gold: http://wisdompdle.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Analysis-scores1.png |
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EFL Educator
Joined: 17 Jul 2013 Posts: 988 Location: Cape Town
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Quote "Most men live lives of quiet desperation...and then there are EFL Teachers"! EE |
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