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Jgplk1
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 Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 7:41 am Post subject: HELP, Interviews |
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| Just a quick one. I have an interview next week and was just wondering what sort of questions to expect? is it the same sort of questions as a normal teaching post in UK? |
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Aristotle
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 9:28 am Post subject: |
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Interviews are not so much to see what you can do but what you look like.
The Taiwanese are incredibly racist people. Interviews are used to ensure that you fit the correct racial profile.
Bring a copy of your passport and other credentials if you have them.
Smile a lot and act like a babe in the woods even if you are not.
Dress is usually casual jeans and shoes as the local population dislikes hairy legs or big toes.
Please read this,
10 Steps to Success on Taiwan!
Good luck! |
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Jgplk1
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 10:06 am Post subject: |
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| it is atelephone interview? |
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Aristotle
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 10:13 am Post subject: |
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Telephone interviews are done more for your benefit than anything else. It is an opportunity to "get you on the hook", so to speak.
Don't take a job from overseas!
Please read this,
10 Steps to Success on Taiwan!
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Jgplk1
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 10:17 am Post subject: |
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| I have read it but I have no option but to take a job from overseas. I do not want to just turn up with some saved money and maybe find nothing! I jave done some research on the school and it all seems ok, few bad things but there seems to be about every school! |
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clark.w.griswald
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 10:22 am Post subject: |
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Telephone interviews are an opportunity for the school to determine whether there will be any problem with the kids understanding you. The school will want to hear that you speak clearly, without a strong accent, and that you don't have some speech impediment that would prove to be a problem if you were a teacher. It is also an opportunity for the school to get an idea about your personality.
Don't be nervous about the interview. Treat it as formal conversation but remember to sound friendly and relaxed. Prepare a few questions about the school and life in Taiwan, even if you already know the answers it can be a good way of breaking the ice. |
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Jgplk1
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 10:26 am Post subject: |
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| Cheers mate, feel a bit better now! Will have a thik about the questions |
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Supercords
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Why is Aristotle so bitter? We get it. You have been oppressed by the Taiwanese people. Everyone has read your 10 steps who wants to. Let it go now.
Shane |
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JZer
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| I have read it but I have no option but to take a job from overseas. I do not want to just turn up with some saved money and maybe find nothing! I jave done some research on the school and it all seems ok, few bad things but there seems to be about every school! |
Why do people think they are going to come to Taiwan and find nothing? I mean if someone who has never met you is willing to hire you over the telephone then why do you believe that you would not find job if you just went to Taiwan?
I mean would a school in your home country hire someone from overseas that they have never met? I think it is very rare and if they do it is because they are probably desperate for people. |
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Ki
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| Make sure that the interview is with an actual school and not a recruiter. If it is with a recruiter then this is just a way to try to create some formality. Don't sign any contract with a recruiter, especially from overseas. If you absolutely must have something lined up before you arrive then go with a chain school. The pay and conditions might be less than if you came here yourself but at least they will pay you. |
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Jgplk1
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I would come out and look for a job when I got there if I knew it was easy to get one! i will only have about �1000 for my flight and to get started so don't want to risk my money running out before I found something!
Plus in the UK a lot of teachers are appointed from overseas via telephone interview!
How much worse is the pay at chain schools? |
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Pop Fly
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I would come out and look for a job when I got there if I knew it was easy to get one! i will only have about �1000 for my flight and to get started so don't want to risk my money running out before I found something!
Plus in the UK a lot of teachers are appointed from overseas via telephone interview!
How much worse is the pay at chain schools? |
It's not the end of the world to take a job from overseas. Most of us have done it. We are sharing our hindsight with you. It's 20/20 baby. YOu will make between 40 and 60 with a chain school. It all depends on how well you adapt to their game. Stay under the radar and you'll be xloser to the latter paycheck. MAke waves and you'll fall below the former.
Regardless, once you have your sponsorship you can relax and seek out more suitable employment. Just please give your chain school the requisite notice and transfer your ARC in the acceptable fashion. We have a bad enough rap here with foreigners faking the kidnapping of their own daughters and getting busted with a few grams of gak and the Korea debacle making the news everywhere that we don't need an influx of FOBs doing runners 2 months into their overseas contract. There are perfectly acceptable ways to change jobs. Too many people listen to the paranoid tripe on this board and at forumosa and get freaked out. Sure, Taiwan is documentation heavy and the TECO folks seem to have their heads firmly embedded up their arseys, but for all it's bureacracy, it is a friendly, effecient country that has reasonable rules and a large majority of law-abiding citizens. Don't use the chains for soft landings and then skip out on their good measure. Soon, some n00b will really need a softlanding but will have to go to Korea cuz Taiwan hardened up. |
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wood
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| Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:34 am Post subject: Re: HELP, Interviews |
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| Just a quick one. I have an interview next week and was just wondering what sort of questions to expect? is it the same sort of questions as a normal teaching post in UK? |
Do you have any experience?
How long do you plan to stay?
How long have you been here?
What kind of visa do you have?
Are you really interested in teaching?
Is it important that the students like you?
Do you want to entertain or do you want to teach?
Can you speak Chinese?
These are a few of the questions I'd ask. You're not interviewing
in my school so you may never face them.
The best advice I could give (if asked to give advice) is to be honest and to be sure about what the school expects you to do. And be sure about what you are willing to do. |
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