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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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Well, yeah, if the friend does the run within the first month, the only fair thing to do would be to return the money.
Although, even if there is no money involved, when a co-worker does the run, the other teachers suffer, and presumably the teacher that reccomended the runner would be treated pretty harshly. It just seemed self evident that you wouldn't reccomend someone who was unreliable. |
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kangnamdragon
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 4:36 pm Post subject: Re: Am I due commission if I get a teacher employed? |
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| My school will soon have a vacancy for a teacher, and I've a friend who's interested. If I recommend my friend to the school and they employ him, would I be due any commission on it? |
That is up to your employer. You will be saving him about 1,000,000 won. |
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chronicpride
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Gord wrote: |
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| Just agree, beforehand, to a fee that is in line with or (if your director wants to negotiate) a little less than the going rate of recruiters nowadays, which is 900,000-1,000,000. |
Why ask for what a recruiter would charge? A recruiter lines up the work visa, buys the air ticket, gets the paperwork in order, and guarantees a refund if the teacher in question doesn't work out or little-to-no charge to replace the teacher.
It's a comparison between apples and oranges. |
The real work for recruiting comes with finding the teacher and 'selling' the job to the teacher. If you have a teacher that is interested, has had an interview, the schools wants to hire them, then 80% of the work is over. Don't kid yourself into thinking that visa/contract processing, and flight booking requires much of anyone's time. I've been recruiting part-time for over a year and many schools even offer 700-800,000 Won just for the introduction/interview, if they could handle the contract/visa processing/flight booking. It's a very simple process.
The only ongoing liability that the OP would have is the after-service commitment. You should only be concerned about midnight runs or 3-month guarantees, if you are not thoroughly qualifying your teachers, beforehand. Recruiters and self-advertising schools bring over a lot of duds, without conducting thorough interviews and reference checks, so if you're not prepared to qualify your teacher, then be prepared for many potential after-service headaches. And, if you also do not thoroughly qualify the school. Of course, even if you do operate with good screening/interviewing/hiring practices, you will always be at risk that the employment relationship between teacher and school craps out, and should therefore provide insurance/guarantee to the school, but your risk is far more reduced, if you exercise due diligence in screening teachers, as opposed to throwing any warm body into any job, which is standard operating procedure for most recruiters and self-hiring schools. |
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