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[Charriere]

Hi,

This school have place a number of adverts over the past few months. Does anyone have any information that a potential applicant might find useful? If you're able to share any recent experiences it would be greatly appreciated!
I tried the search function, but it only brought up previous job ads placed by the school.

Thanks in advance..

[Plume D'ella Plumeria]

There is a poster here called Kev something-or-another who works there and seems to be deeply entrenched in the school's culture. And he defends it to the death.

Also, he seems to have some sort of management role at that school. A more in-depth online search will bring up more information.

I interviewed with them last month, along with visiting the school in person. I was not impressed and came away with no desire to work for them. There were many reasons for this.

My advice is to do a more comprehensive search. If you do, you will hear some interesting viewpoints.

Maybe Kev is right or maybe he is painting a rosy picture of the place. But I came away with a negative feeling.

Take that as you will ...

[kev7161]

. . . and sometimes the school has no desire to hire some that they interview. . .

[Non Sequitur]

and that gentle readers is what's called a 'riposte'

[kev7161]

What's funny is that poster has left, what, 17 messages in the past 6 years - - half of them telling us about crappy jobs s/he has just left. Also, as far as I know, there were no interviews conducted in February ("last month") on school grounds as most of the month was holiday-time and we all only got back near the very end of the month. Much too busy at that time for our interview coordinators to arrange on-campus visits w/interview. Tell me, "Plume", what was the name of your interviewer? Maybe I can look into it.

[Charriere]

Thanks for taking the time to post. It's always good to get two sides of the argument!
The guy I dealt with, albeit briefly, repsonded quickly to emails, seemed keen and then communication ended abruptly. I guess they found someone else to do the job. I'm not in China now and I wouldn't have been able to start until September. By finding someone already in China, the school would have saved a lot of money on airfare, I understand that.
No hard feelings from my side.

[kev7161]

The school is hiring for September. Perhaps a reminder email could be helpful if you are still interested.

[Charriere]

Okay, thanks for the heads up, Kevin.