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Bucheonguy · Joined: 23 Oct 2008 Location: Bucheon

As most of you can probably guess I'm looking for another job. So I applied to footprints recruiting.

They phoned me up at 7:30 on a Saturday for an interview which really pissed me off. The questions they asked though were so bizzare.

"Have you ever encountered a culture that's different from your own?"
It was hard not to be a little surprised because it's on my resume that I've been living here for a year now. After my initial "What," I gave them did you read my resume answer. It'ss all there.

"Do you have any experience leading a project?" Once again on my resume. So I told them.

So the rude woman went on. I could tell by her tone of voice that she was pissed off about something.

"Do you have an experience with a second language? Taken classes for example..." Of course I have experience! I've lived in Korea for almost a year and grew up in Canada so I had to take French.

So finally, after an hour of these stupid questions she says we're finished. Biggest waste of my time ever considering it's all on my resume! The biggest piss off though, was when I got an email this morning telling me I've been rejected! What the hell is that? Has anyone else ever been rejected?

Anyway, biggest pain in the ass interview, rude interviewer and rejected at the end... Wow is all I can say... wow... For those of you going with footprints, have fun and good luck.

mountainous · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Location: Los Angeles

I have to agree w/you, my Footprints interview was BORING....

Not sure what they're trying to prove by interviewing at 7:15 AM on Sunday morning..I got rejected and I didn't complain or appeal Cool

there's no love lost.

Bucheonguy · Joined: 23 Oct 2008 Location: Bucheon

Kind of glad to hear you had the same experience... I didn't even think it was possible to get rejected from a Korean recruiter! It was kind of funny but a little upsetting since they tend to take anyone.

Anyway, glad to hear we were in the same boat with them. The girl who interiewed me was a BITCH!

Big Mac · Joined: 17 Sep 2005

I think Footprints is pretty out of touch with how things work here.

They're really slow to respond. And the responses you do get seem to be computer generated and out of context with your personal situation. I gave up on them before the phone interview. I don't know any other recruiter that makes you jump through so many useless hoops.

joshuahirtle27 · Joined: 23 Mar 2008

I was rejected by footprints too. They even said "you can try one of these other recruiters" and gave me a list of competitors. I guess I wasn't all that great if they wanted their competition to have the money for recruiting me. OH well. By the time they'd called me I had a job lined up in Korea through Longbridge Pacific. LBP was much nicer in the interview. They didn't ask any stupid questions and wanted to know what I had to offer rather than could I speak any other language (that Koreans can't speak) besides English.

daz1979 · Joined: 29 Apr 2006 Location: Gangwon-Do

Ha!

3 years later and they're still crap! I have to say Footprints were by far the worst recruiters that I used. They didn't reject me, but they just didn't listen to a word I said and set up interviews without even asking me if I was interested in the job.

I would only use:

Action Korea http://actionrecruitment.cyoz.com/

Esl Planet or Korvia if I ever had to use a recruiter again.

cruisemonkey · Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:55 pm Post subject:

Bucheonguy,

You're in good company. I was rejected by Footprints too. Laughing

Idiots!

sonicmatt · Joined: 04 Oct 2007

i was rejected too, same questions. apparently traveling overseas and learning a langauge isnt good enough for them. ive always wondered what people said that didnt get rejected by them.

daz1979 · Joined: 29 Apr 2006 Location: Gangwon-Do

This thread will be deleted shortly.... Complaints will be in process in 5,4,3.... Laughing

DeLaRed · Joined: 16 Oct 2008

yeah they suck..... they said they would have a much harder time placing someone with a non US/Canadian accent.....yeah right....with the many jobs out there and not enough teachers being available to fill them? didn`t receive any mail/calls back from them after they heard I have a British accent Rolling Eyes

Ice Tea · Joined: 23 Nov 2008

Footprints isn't very well organized. They send out silly emails and they take forever to respond. Local recruiters are so much more responsive. Maybe they aren't getting enough jobs so they are rejecting people. Or maybe they're popularity means they get more applicants than they need, so they just arbitrarily reject people.

OculisOrbis · Joined: 17 Jul 2006

OP, sounds like, last year, I had the same interviewer as you. Same ridiculous time for the phone call, same questions, same attitude. Only difference was that I hung up on her before they rejected me. Idiots.

nicam · Joined: 14 Jun 2008

Weird. I used them and they barely asked me a thing before accepting me. The interview was a total joke, and took about 5 minutes total. Think I even missed my first scheduled interview because my phone was being gay, so I had to reschedule.

Adobe · Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Location: SK

I also got the whole you don't have an American accent it will be hard to place you. To bad when they called 'd already accepted a job through a different agency.

They seem very behind the times...

Adobe

Adobe · Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Location: SK

I also got the whole you don't have an American accent it will be hard to place you. To bad when they called 'd already accepted a job through a different agency.

They seem very behind the times...

Adobe