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zipper
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Rooster_2006
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| A couple of the Korean recruiters that I worked with were making a one time lump some of 1 to 1.5 million won per teacher they successfully placed in a public or private school. However, if the teacher did a runner before six months, then the recruiter would have to provide the school with another teacher without charge. |
I'm sure my Korea recruiter made at least a couple million won off of me. F---ing vampire.
Don't get me wrong, recruiters can serve a valuable purpose. For example, Siman, my Taiwan recruiter, has put in at least 50 hours towards trying to get me a job (I know because I've spent 50 hours in the car/at buxibans with him). He's definitely earned something and I have no problem with him getting a (time-limited) commission. Not so with my Korea recruiter -- she didn't drive me to interviews, pay for my visa runs, or anything like that. She just searched for jobs on the Internet and called me up and said "can you do this job?" and then she'd collect 40 - 50%!
She told me not to speak Korean because "they want a teacher who doesn't speak Korean," but I soon learned that the parents actually loved that I could actually communicate with them -- she just didn't want me to discover her financial skullduggery, that she was receiving money for my unpaid breaks, that she was lying about her commission, etc.
I have often had the urge to post warnings about her on Dave's and other sites, but I'm afraid of legal retribution, since I was a Korean language student during that time and not allowed to work. I have a lot more to lose than her, which is why I don't post her name and contact information to every single blacklist on the Internet. |
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zipper
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JZer
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http://www.eslcafe.com/jobs/china/index.cgi?read=20974
Here is proof of 130 to 150 an hour on Dave's for part time jobs in Guangzhou. If they are advertising 130RMB an hour to 150 RMB an hour on Dave's there must be plenty of jobs for 150 and up in China. |
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