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gav72 · Joined: 19 Feb 2009

Hi everyone. I am currently looking at teaching in Pusan at the moment. I was wondering if anyone can recommend good schools/recruiters. I found one advertising recently. They're called rbi korea. Their website http://www.rbikorea.com/ looks quite good in terms of them mentioning only getting good schools for you.

I am just doing some research at the moment.

SunshineBrit · Joined: 24 Jul 2009

I would not recommend RBI, I'm not sure about others' experiences but mine was not positive. According to another recruiter I had talked to, since Busan is so popular schools find that they do not need to enlist the help of recruiters. Her advice was to look at Busan job postings online and apply directly to those schools (and it worked for me). When you find a school that you're interested in just type it into the search feature on this forum and you'll get your answers.

adjective_noun · Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:01 am Post subject:

I had a very bad experience with RBI when I was fresh meat for the hagwon grinder. They sent me to a horrible hagwon, and when the shit hit the fan, they acted even worse than being no help at all.

Don't believe any recruiter's hype about "only getting good schools for you". They really couldn't care less about you, so its up to you to stay on your toes. Send your resume to a whole bunch of recruiters. Try to get the email addresses of some of the other teachers (not just the Uncle Tom head teacher). Post the contract on Daves for other's opinions of it. And don't let yourself get pushed around.

Grantasmagoria · Joined: 04 Dec 2005

Don't use them. I emailed them a couple of years ago and I think it took a month or two before they replied..haha, yeah I'm still interested in working with you. Emails could have been lost or forgotten so I can't totally blame them. Just my experience.

Edit: Any recruiter saying you can save up to $20,000 (roughly 25 million won) a year is full of...you know what. Sure, you can save a lot but 20 grand is hilarious.

Forbidden-Donut · Joined: 17 Jul 2007

D-Jay · Joined: 24 Jun 2009

I tried using RBI several years ago when I first came to Korea. However, the contracts they were sending my way were all horrible. I ended up dropping them and going with an individual recruiter who found me a fairly decent hagwon, where I stayed for 2 years. Ironically, that hagwon also hired another teacher at the same time they hired me, and that teacher found that job through RBI. Makes me wonder why RBI never told me about that job.

adjective_noun · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:50 pm Post subject:

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Profesora · Joined: 02 Aug 2009 Location: Seoul

I used to live in Busan and can recommend Welcome Recruiting. www.welcomerecruit.com
They're good and efficient...I'm in Seoul now, but recommend them for Busan Smile

Rutherford · Joined: 31 Jul 2007

For jobs in Busan try Kim'nJoe http://www.kimnjoe.com/

They found me my first hogwan job in Busan and were very helpful. They placed four teachers at my school and when we had a misunderstanding about vacation time Simpson from K&J came to talk to our director and sorted everything out for us.

litebear · Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Location: Holland

Delighted I found this thread as I was looking for something similar myself. I will check those sites out after work

John Henry · Joined: 24 Sep 2004

frenchie · Joined: 29 Aug 2009

Has anyone heard of Jayden Kim from TOK Recruitment??