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Ariadne · Joined: 16 Jul 2004 Posts: 960

1. Decide where you want to live in China... which general area or city.

2. Research/find schools in the area you've chosen.

3. Go to the school's webpage and follow the job application process.

4. Repeat often.

5. Once hired the school will send you the docs to get your Z.

6. You don't need recruiters.

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Non Sequitur · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 4724 Location: China

Toast · Joined: 08 Jun 2013 Posts: 428

Be aware too many universities don't update the English side of their websites that often it seems. My school for example still lists the contact person and email address for recruitment as an FAO that hasn't worked at the school since 2006.

If it's one particular school you're interested in don't just send off one email to the given address and forget about it. Look around for others, even on the Chinese side of the site and send to a few. Guaranteed at least one of them will find their way to the desk or email inbox of the current FAO.

nomad-ish · Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 11:58 pm Post subject:

sounds a bit dodgy, i've used 3 different recruiters for jobs in Korea and China, and each time, the contract I sign is with the school/school board they represent, not their recruiting company.

the only thing i can think of this that they're planning on moving you around from this school to that school to make up your hours. that means a hell of a lot of time spent figuring out where you're going and commuting to locations. they could technically even have you do half a day at this school and half a day somewhere else (using your lunch hour to commute... heard of this happening before)

GuestBob · Joined: 18 Jun 2011 Posts: 270

Chronos · Joined: 27 May 2013 Posts: 17

Thanks for all the help guys.....Sorry for the delay in responding....I had a few things come up that needed attention and kept me tied up.

So I agree with all of you and have stayed away from the recruiters that were giving me less than the best advice (to put it politely). I have since started contract negotiations with the college that I mentioned previously. I didn't like a few of the things in the contract and sent it back for revisions. The contact person said I could make revisions if I wasn't happy (its a brand new contract they just created) so I took him up on it. I am waiting for the return of the contract. BTW, the revisions are mostly clarifications as opposed to changes or demands on my part. The wording was not clear enough and I didn't want it to blow up in my face later. One part for example said that I was to teach "at least" X amount of classes, but had no maximum, which I feared could cause an endless amount of classes being dumped on me, without any compensation increase.

In the mean time I had a couple of other recruiters offer me other uni positions. One is in Guangzhou and the other in Dongguan. I know a bit about Guangzhou, but nothing about Dongguan. The one in Dongguan pays less than the Guangzhou uni, so I don't know which is a better living situation per se. The good thing about these two recruiters is that the contract is directly with the school and not the agency, so they seem more legitimate. They have sent me sample contracts and it shows the school name and then a space for my name. The others did not do this. So I feel a bit better about these two. If they make a commission off of me, well that's the way life goes, I cant begrudge them making a living as long as it doesn't hurt me.

If anyone has any input regarding Guangzhou VS Dongguan I would love to hear it. Also what parts (district) of each city to stay away from, etc.

Thanks again

Timer · Joined: 24 Oct 2010 Posts: 173 Location: China