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[raptorsfan]

OK, I need to submit two sealed recommendation letters.

The problem is, I don't know how to seal the envelop.

It's not like my past employer has an official company stamp/sticker or anything.

Do you have the envelop signed across the back by the employer and then put a translucent sticker over it, or something?

Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks in advance!!

[Moldy Rutabaga]

When writing recommendation letters, I seal the envelope and then write my signature across the seal. You might ask your writers to do that, and give them stamped envelopes with the address on it as a courtesy.

[jpotter78]

[PatrickGHBusan]

It is pretty simple.

Ask those people who write the recommendation letters for you to seal the enveloppe themselves and sign the enveloppe across the back.

That is an acceptable seal.

You cannot seal it yourself...unless the school is willing to accept that.

[Bog Roll]

Sack that place off.

All that hassle just to work in shitty Korea - tell them to stick it up their arse!

If GEPIK make their stupid promise of hiring only NA females of a certain age for the next year reality - its over and out for this teacher.

[hockeyguy109]

[Moldy Rutabaga]

The requirement was common when I applied for grad school. To be fair, the OP may not be applying for a hogwan / public school job, which would be a pretty extreme requirement.

[Bog Roll]

http://www.korvia.com/index.php/required-documents-gepik.html

They want two, sealed, stamped references with headed notepaper.

Here is a short Scots-English lesson for you GEPIK.

GTF!

I think I'll stay in China for the meantime. Better food, nicer women, more variety and all that kind of shit that is hard to find in crappy Korea - I look forward to the days of old where GEPIK would employ anyone who could walk and talk at the same time - coming sooner that you think as well!

[Draz]

Heh. I remember when I applied for EPIK I asked my supervisor for a letter of reference. He said okay, write something up and I'll sign it. Okay. So I wrote a simple reference letter, based on stuff I found on Google. Then I scanned the company logo and designed a letterhead in photoshop with the picture and company address and put that on the letter. Then I printed it off and had him sign it. It also took some work to track down stamps, to stamp the letters and envelopes. I had to do all of this twice! Neither place had official letterhead paper, a stamp, a boss who was capable of writing at a high school level...

I have real reference letters now, for what it's worth.

[openeyes]

For EPIK, my recruiter asked for two original signed reference letters on letterhead. The recruiter also wanted me to email scans of the reference letters before mailing them, which meant I was expected to have access to them and then seal them. The only thing that said it had to be sealed with a stamp on the seal was my transcript. Even if you apply directly on the EPIK site (if that's what you're applying to) by emailing documents, you'll be expected to include .pdfs or .jpgs of the reference letters.

[calicoe]

Yeah, I have to admit this is getting ridiculous. I had to submit sealed letters for graduate school. I asked my references, they wrote or edited a letter I wrote for them to save them trouble, and then they mailed the copy directly to school. My sealed transcripts directly from university were also good enough for top 20 schools in the U.S., but somehow not enough for universities and backwoods technical programs here in Korea.

Also, one university had the nerve to ask for a reference from your current employer. How exactly does that work?

They can sod off - seriously. I am half-heartedly sending things out, because either the salaries, benefits, and demands are so ridiculous for most of them, and the decent ones state they want a TESOL master's degree and at least 2 years at a university.

So, feck 'em.