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allison13 · Joined: 04 Sep 2009 Location: Dana Point ca

I was wondering what my chances were of getting turned down by EPIK. Is anyone familiar with their process? Or have any tips? If it helps I'm 22, female and just graduated with a BA.

cruisemonkey · Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:05 pm Post subject:

If you're not a natural blond, dye your hair before getting your picture taken (this will make you a better English teacher) Wink

; and if you're beautiful, your chances of being turned down are almost zero.

knee-highs · Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Location: yes

1) Check your pulse. Do you have one?

2) Hold a mirror in front of your mouth and see if you can fog it up.

If yes, you have a job with EPIK.

blonde researcher · Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:23 pm Post subject:

I have heard EPIK are only setting level 1& 2 applicants for interviewing in first rounds from now on because they had so many applicants last time.
With this application rule in place anyone with only a bachelor degree may miss out on getting in, even if they are 'blonde and pretty'

knee-highs · Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Location: yes

Sadebugo1 · Joined: 11 May 2003

I worked for a EPIK a long time ago (96-9 Cool

. From the orientation, it didn't look like they had turned anyone down. The original plan was to hire 1000 native speakers with MAs in the field but that didn't work out too well as you can imagine. So, they had to scramble at the last minute to fill half those slots with people who had little to no experience. I'm happy to say that things have changed very little over the years!

Sadebugo
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andrewchon · Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:48 pm Post subject:

Level 2 is any bachelor degree with:
TESOL cert 100hrs
or min one year of full time English teaching
or degree in English Lit/ English Language/ Linguistics

During last summer's SMOE fiasco, 2450 interviewed and 550 were hired. Getting an online TESOL cert isn't that hard.

If EPIK allows online-TESOL-certification then the econo 'fugee-yama landslide will be just as devastating the second time.

cherrycoke · Joined: 13 Sep 2009

chris_J2 · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Location: From Brisbane, Au.

Epik are rejecting applicants over 40 this year. It would also help if you're North American (Canada / USA) & not overweight.

cruisemonkey · Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:39 pm Post subject:

andrewchon · Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:26 am Post subject:

It is puzzling to be sure. Why aren't the EPIK positions filled? Did the 100 chop-offs reject the rural jobs? Perhaps the avalanche only wants to hit Seoul.

cruisemonkey · Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:32 am Post subject:

cherrycoke · Joined: 13 Sep 2009

^

I stand corrected. And btw I took a job with in an suburban area, they were dying to take me in. I think it's the same deal with lawyers and pharmacists in the US. It's not saturated but people just dont want to take jobs outside the big city, they would rather live in poverty than take the rural job

T-dot · Joined: 16 May 2004 Location: bundang

white, north american and under 35

ill have no problems getting a job if you fit these criteria. If you're attractive then you'll have to beat the employers away.

yeremy

Most of the new EPIK tachers in my area do not fit that image.

What I've heard more and more is that schools want to hire a good teacher.

I'm not going to re-sign as an EPIK teacher for next year. I know for sure that my both of my schools hope that my replacement is a good teacher, who they don't have to supervise and guide 100% of the time. And both of my schools are going to apply to have their own full-time NET, so I wish both of my replacements well.

My co-teacher at my circulating school is the 교육부장, academic director. She is so busy that I don't see her hardly at in the afternoons, so I am left alone to work on the next day's lessons. Last Friday, she came in late to the first morning class, which I started without her, and proceeded to play the previous lessson's cd-rom dialog. She likes to use the cd-rom curriculum, so we do, but I had to tell her quietly that we were playing the wrong dialog. She didn't even know exactly where we were in the textbook, but I did.

Some schools may not care and will be very happy to hire an attractive but inexperienced newbie, whom they will fret over because they don't know what to do most of the time, but other schools want more than looks. They want some one who will bring added value to their English classes and classroom. The answer may be that there is room in EPIK for both the mythical pretty blond and the less attractive but capable NET, who doesn't have to be led by the hand all of the time.