Korean Job Discussion Forums

[pendragon82]

Hmmm... I have been toying with the idea of coming back to Korea for a 3rd year and wow, have I been having some interesting experiences with the online job hunting this time. It seems that some schools are more desperate than ever.

My most recent e-mail, from a school I never applied to:
"Ok i agree to your terms. How can you start? We need you immediately!"

I suppose this is my fault for posting my resume on a random job site, but I'm curious, any other job hunters getting stuff like this in their box?

[jlb]

There's plenty of schools here in Cheonan that are in desperate need of someone immediately and even getting to the point of finding subs for short amounts of time, etc.

[gsxr750r]

They can agree to anything to get you to fly here, but many of them will change their minds after you do, and they put a contract in front of your face.

Still more will not honor the contract at all.

Yes -- desperate. But still Korean.

You know this, I bet.

[pendragon82]

Gsxr750r, I definitely know it... but this is certainly the first time I've been getting e-mail's with exclamation points. I find that schools usually pretend to bargain, at least a little bit

[English_Ocean]

Ask for a sign on bonus, to be paid before you arrive.

[meangradin]

If you are in country, then you can certainly ask for and receive some great concessions; paid on the first day of each month, ten month contracts that give full bonuses, etc... You are really only limited by your own imagination.