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Darotker · Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Posts: 15

Just noticed that HESS is now offering to pay for airfare and has a start up loan for it's teachers.

They never had that when I worked there and it seems to me a CLEAR indication of how desperate they are for teachers.

When I was working there, less than half of my training class stayed for the year and completed their contract.

I've heard it's gotten much worse lately, with people quitting left and right. Is there any better indication of a Company than how many people actually complete their contract?

There is no large school with a worse reputation amongst teachers in Taiwan. As has been mentioned many times in this forum, HESS is a stale school, with a really poor track record with it's teachers.

The point is, there are much better options.

pinkflyd7 · Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 1:41 am Post subject:

This doesn't surprise me at all. Hess chose not to renew my contract (for reasons I have stated previously in other posts), even though they were in the midst of a major teacher shortage. Another teacher I worked with didn't have his contract renewed simply because the "secretaries didn't like him." Hess seems to have a complete lack of common sense.

When I first started working at Hess, they offered me a free apartment for 3 months (in Hsinchu). So they were pretty desperate then, I guess they're even more desperate now. I think the first thing they should do is raise their minimum salary from (the extremely low) 560 nt an hour to at least the bare minimum of 600 nt an hour that most other schools offer.

davidla · Joined: 14 Feb 2004 Posts: 17

The airfare loan is new, but they have have been offering loans to new teachers for years.
I thought their return rate was about 90%?
David

StayingPower · Joined: 18 Aug 2006 Posts: 252

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

Perhaps I am missing something here but how is the addition of something to the foreign teachers benefit somehow translate across to be something that teachers can use against the school as a complaint. Seems kind of self-defeating to me. Kind of comes across as if some people are having trouble finding legitimate complaints against the school so are grasping at straws in the hope that one stands out as a legitimate complaint.