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[R_totale]

Applied for a job in China with ENREACH Education. A guy named Shane rang me from the Shangai office and his first question was 'when would you be able to start if you did get the job?' I said July because I was still under contract in Saudi. He then promptly hung up on me! not a 'sorry we're looking for someone to start sooner' etc or a word. Half an hour later I got a single sentence email informing me 'Enreach will not be proceeding with my application'.

This is a minor thing I know but it got my back up. Perhaps they are great employers and this gentleman was just rude. However it got me to think if this is their attitude towards recruitment what are they like to work for?

[Modernist]

Falls in the category of, 'do you have a pulse and a white face? Can you be here next week? (do you have a high tolerance for absurd BS from your job in exchange for really not that much money?) You're hired.'

Why in the world would you even want to work for such a place? Life is too short to even bother with that. Good riddance.

[In the heat of the moment]

Maybe he thought a dial tone was preferable to "Oh %$#@ off then!"

[dakelei]

My experience with getting a Z visa leads me to believe that many Chinese schools' ads are absurd. It is impossible to get a Z visa quickly enough to satisfy what the school requires. Even if you were available tomorrow the absurdly long process to arrive in China with a legal visa makes it impossible. It doesn't help that the requirements for getting said visa change on a daily basis and there might be 5 people in the entire country who completely understand it and are capable of articulating it in English. Any school that would ask if you're available next week would undoubtedly expect you to teach illegally.

To me at least it is patently obvious that the powers-that-be in China simply don't want foreign teachers anymore, or at least "Western" ones. They'd probably like to unceremoniously ban them but that would fly in the face of their desire to appear "open." I'm amazed by how many open positions I see every day here and all over the web. I know that the last school at which I taught has had a very tough time finding teachers even though it's actually a decently pleasant place to work. The process of first finding a suitable candidate and then guiding them through the Z visa process has become so onerous that many a position goes unfilled. The cynic in me can't help but believe that is by design.