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shostahoosier
Joined: 14 Apr 2009
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 Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 11:20 am Post subject: How does GEPIK work exactly? |
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How is the hiring process with GEPIK different from EPIK?
With EPIK, you interview with EPIK and then with the school.
Does GEPIK skip the interview and have your recruiter send you directly to the school? |
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toadhjo
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
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Sorry, not the answer to your question...but I think for EPIK, you just interview with the EPIK head office, I don't think there is an interview with the school you will be sent to.
That said, I could be wrong. |
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lifeinkorea
Joined: 24 Jan 2009
Location: somewhere in China
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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| If you submit your application directly to the main organizations, then they will assign you a school. That is my understanding. If you go through a recruiter, you interview with the school which means you can visit the place and decide whether you want to work there. I did this. |
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greasypeanut
Joined: 28 Apr 2009
Location: songtan
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| im with gepik and went through a recruiter, and i only had an interview with the recruiter. he told me that the schools have faith in the recruiter and trust their judgement. |
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shostahoosier
Joined: 14 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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| I wonder if the urban areas have filled up yet. I hope if I'm fortunate enough to get in with GEPIK that I'm not stuck out in BFE. |
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kabrams
Joined: 15 Mar 2008
Location: your Dad's house
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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I went with a recruiter, and I did an interview with the school. They (the school) hired me and then they did an interview to "see what I was like" and to see if I had any questions.
It was a pretty simple process to be honest, and I got an amazing, modern, technologically advanced school plus an amazing co-teacher who is my age and really nice.
(can you tell I'm still in the honeymoon phase?) |
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yjo086
Joined: 04 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:41 pm Post subject: GEPIK Hiring process |
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| I had the same exact question. Right now I'm with a recruiter who just put my resume with GEPIK. She told me I would have to wait until the end of June for the results. However, I'm a bit disheartened. This is my first time trying to teach aboard and I had failed the interview with EPIK, so I'm not sure what to do anymore. I have a degree in Art and Digital Media, but I have no experience with children (besides babysitting), I am going to go for my TESOL certification in another month or so. What are the odds of me actually being accepted into the program? Any advice or thoughts would be much appreciated! |
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yjo086
Joined: 04 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:42 pm Post subject: GEPIK Hiring process |
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| I had the same exact question. Right now I'm with a recruiter who just put my resume with GEPIK. She told me I would have to wait until the end of June for the results. However, I'm a bit disheartened. This is my first time trying to teach aboard and I had failed the interview with EPIK, so I'm not sure what to do anymore. I have a degree in Art and Digital Media, but I have no experience with children (besides babysitting), I am going to go for my TESOL certification in another month or so. What are the odds of me actually being accepted into the program? Any advice or thoughts would be much appreciated! |
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lifeinkorea
Joined: 24 Jan 2009
Location: somewhere in China
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To those new to teaching in Asia, I suggest you consider hagwon jobs and public schools out in the country (not just Seoul). You will get experience, and with a hagwon, you can end the contract more easily and move on to another school after you have some experience working with kids. Recruiters will nag you about not finishing a year at first, but if they have a school interested it won't matter that much.
You might as well shoot for a public school, but realize you can also work up to it. If you do, you will be able to interview with the school in the country and decide if you want the job instead of being assigned to it. You can also pick and choose the location you want to live in. If you put everything in the hands of the employer/recruiter, you will have no say so and end up committing yourself to something you may not want to. |
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yjo086
Joined: 04 Jun 2009
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| Yeah, but aren't hagwons, those scary places that everyone seems to hate? LOL. I wouldn't mind working in one, but what are my options if something goes wrong? |
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creeper1
Joined: 30 Jan 2007
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| Yeah, but aren't hagwons, those scary places that everyone seems to hate? LOL. I wouldn't mind working in one, but what are my options if something goes wrong? |
I worked at a hagwon called G1230 in Ilsan and didn't have any problems. I would do my research before taking a hagwon job. I would talk to current and past foreign teachers.
Don't write off hagwons. If you can't get a job at a public school they are definetly better than sitting at home unemployed. |
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Rory_Calhoun27
Joined: 14 Feb 2009
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| shostahoosier wrote: |
| I wonder if the urban areas have filled up yet. I hope if I'm fortunate enough to get in with GEPIK that I'm not stuck out in BFE. |
Be careful what you ask for! I got in with them in Ansan, and between NOONE being at the airport to pick me up, a coteacher refusing to follow even BASIC rules of successful coteaching, and actually ASSAULTING me after one of our frequent arguments, I can safely say I will be EXTREMELY RELIEVED when my jail sentence.... eh, CONTRACT, is up next week. 
Not to say I don't plan on going out with a whimper.... like the Jack Nicholson's Joker said, "If ya gotta go out, go out with a bang!"  |
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bundangbabo
Joined: 01 Jun 2008
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| Yeah, but aren't hagwons, those scary places that everyone seems to hate? LOL. I wouldn't mind working in one, but what are my options if something goes wrong? |
One of the things you really need to forget about is the 'guarantee'
'What if the school/hagwon goes belly up/mistreats me/refuses to pay me etc.
There is no guarantee that any public school/hagwon will be the right fit for you - even if you talk to the previous native teacher - personalities and the way you look count for so much here - even above ability to do the job, that ones persons paradise can become another persons prison just because they are the wrong body shape/ have the wrong accent/ don't eat the food the right way/ talk too much/don't speak enough Korean, bleh bleh bleh etc - you know - there are so many etiquette rules than can be broken here and the hard thing for us is that the rules are made up on the whim depending on who you are and how you are percieved.
Go in with a sense of humour, if you are being treated badly you are not being afford 'face' so feel free to rip new arseholes if that what makes bad behaviour stop, if you have to leave DO NOT give notice unless you are a public school and even then I wouldn't advise personally, hagwons will steal every penny they can off you during your notice - spoken from experience here. And finally - don't sign anything or give away your passport or degree once you are here. |
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