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[Glenski]

easyasabc,

You are one of the people who has made this claim and not come through with names of places. The one on your link has a New York address to apply to, which suggests that you can interview outside of Japan, but it does not clearly say so. I'll add that place (American Eikaiwa Gakuin) to my list with reservations.

As for the three others in your area, why don't you list their names? I believe you mentioned this same remark in an earlier post but could not even come up with the names of the places. Very frustrating.

[Sam Adams]

Interac hires couples and does its best to place them together in the same city. I trained with two pairs of couples and a year later two friends from the States who were dating did the same thing. Interac placed them both in Narita.

[easyasabc]

[Glenski]

[Glenski]

[kiracle]

Glenski, I think you provide amazing information and I truly respect the admirable amount of patience and wisdom you show in helping and answering questions on this forum. However, I have to agree with easyasabc on this one.

Your statement that only 10 schools hire from abroad has always made me uncomfortable and seemed misleading. If you go right now to the international jobs board, the first four japan job posts that were not AEON or GEOS (all of which appear to be small private schools) offer visa sponsership or renewel. One even offers roundtrip airfare. From what there psoting says it sems that they are expecting to hire from abroad (why other wise mention things like airfare?) In my expereince of prowling the job board,which is far too frequent, this is in no way exceptional.

Probably the reason easyasabc doesn't want to give the names of schools is the same that I would prefer not to give mine although I was also hired from abroad. If the school is on a list it will be deluged with resumes when they have no intention of hiring anybody. When my school needs a new teacher or teachers they post it and then sort the resumes. To put my school's name on a list that would cause them annoyance and inconvience seems disrespectful to me.

Ohayo Sensei, too, often has postings from smaller schools that sometimes hire from abroad.

Cheers,

Kiracle

[Glenski]

Perhaps I need to clarify my definition. I have written this so many times that it sometimes doesn't come out the same each time.

[Glenski]

[Gordon]

[Glenski]

Gordon,

Do tell! What makes them crooks?

[Gordon]

You want to know???

This info comes from a friend who applied and turned down the subsequent job offer. I also looked at the contract myself.

1. If you are sick and miss work, they subtract more pay than what you actually missed. They say it is because of the student's inconvenience.

2. If you leave before your 1 year contract expires, you are fined 1 million yen to compensate the school.

There is more but I can't remember all the details. Of course we know this is illegal, but who would want to work there? This also explains why they have a standard job advertisement every 2 months on Dave's.

[PAULH]

[Gordon]

Paul,
I have had a similar email from someone else who also worked at Lingo. Same kind of complaints as R. Martin

Is there any kind of screening process that Dave can do so as not to allow a place like Lingo to advertise? I know this site does not endorse their ads, but it does hurt the job ads' reputation if people get hired through this site and end up getting cheated dpwn the road.

[PAULH]

I can send a mail to Dave and see what he says. Another one with a big red flag in Japan is Smiths School of English. Never worked for them but I have a rather close connection with some of the former franchisees and am involved in the discussion on gaijinpot (140 posts and going strong)