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gooberdeluxe · Joined: 09 Mar 2005 Posts: 6

I may have to abort this fiasco of a trip. I get no responses. Is it because the canucks have once again invaded a la Korea ten years ago when I taught? I thought I would be one of a few Yahoos coming here. It seems our boy Aristotle could be right. Maybe the market is saturated. My lack of Chinese is killing me.
You people are the survivors. I am destined back to the good ol' U.S.
Shame, I found this place rather intriguing in many ways.

Pop Fly · Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 429

Why? What's going on? Are you getting intrviews?

Girl Scout · Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 525 Location: Inbetween worlds

How you checked out these two sites?

http://home.kimo.com.tw/iaa_taiwan/index.htm

and

http://www.aacircle.com.au/cgi-bin/forums/taiwan/teach-in-taiwan.pl/noframes/#569

If you really want to stay I hate to see you give up. Also, I saw a couple of new job posts here on Dave's site.

Aristotle · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 1388 Location: Taiwan

Ki · Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posts: 475

Correction Aristotle,

the aacircle company isn't so much a recruiter as a recruiter for recruiters. So you pay this company a fee and all that they do for you is to ship you off to another recruiter. Totally unnecessary and not at all in the teacher's best interests. It looks like most of the "jobs" on the provided link just pass you over to other recruiters.

Aristotle · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 1388 Location: Taiwan

The reseach I have seen indicates that AAC is the Australian affiliate of IACC.
International Avenue Consulting Company (IACC) is by far, the biggest and most disreputable job placement agent on Taiwan with links to ESL ASIA/Jobs Japan.
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/job/viewtopic.php?t=14967
Be careful!
A.

Girl Scout · Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 525 Location: Inbetween worlds

IACC has a job board. If you looked at the site before you posted a comment you would know. The other one IS a recruiter, but if the OP is really looking for a job at least this recruiter spells out all the info.

Ki · Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posts: 475

So apply for the "jobs" directly. Don't do it through AAC. This way you only have to pay for one recruiter instead of two.

clark.w.griswald · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 2056

In the past I used to recommend the services that Chris (the guy who runs AAC) offers. At that time he was a recruiter, and a pretty reasonable one at that.

Now it does appear as if he has taken a step back and just passes people onto another recruiter for a cut of the action. Good on him for doing this, but I can't say that it is in the teachers best interests. Afterall, having one third party involved can make things confusing, but having two is likely to result in misunderstandings that could be avoided by dealing directly.

The only relationship between AAC and IACC is that they are in the same line of business, and that AAC will refer some people over to IACC. They are seperate companies and IACC holds no right over the AAC to my knowledge.