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[proustme]

This is what is happening. I'm leaving my school for another public school in a better area. Apparently, using the head office is going to save money because my school won't have to use a private recruiting company. It's a good idea, in theory.

However, I asked my colleague if she had given any background preferences/requirements for the teacher who will replace me and she said she didn't.

Personally, I don't know how going through the GEPIK head office will fare. Sending off prerequisite credentials/experience preferences to multiple companies would have been the better choice, I believe. By this process, my school could get better candidates. Who lately is applying through the main GEPIK office, anyway? I thought the process had been decentralized and that prospective NETs were predominately applying through recruiters.

I was hoping that I could have some input or possibly an interview with the candidates. I really care about my students. Unfortunately none of this will happen. It seems the GEPIK head office is going to send a handful of resumes and my school will choose from that pile whom to interview.

[bassexpander]

[lifeinkorea]

Time is all that matters to them. When do they need a teacher and who can fill the spot for the lowest salary?

[oskinny1]

[Burndog]

You can get lucky using head office. Sometimes, experienced teachers ask Dain to help them find a good school...and if your school is good then their resume will be in a pile full of nerfs. Unfortunately...many schools still choose the teacher with the blondest hair, or the bluest eyes. Maybe if you can get your hands on the stack of resume's then you can at least be somewhat involved.

[conrad2]

I have always been disturbed by posts like the OP: " Im leaving my school and I care about them so much that I dont want just anybody teaching them." Give me a break. The next teacher chosen randomly may be a more skilled teacher than you. You will be forgotten by your school about 5 seconds after the new Whitey shows up.

[Sincinnatislink]

[sojusucks]

[proustme]

Update: OK, a South African has been hired. However all my coworker/school knows is that the person is a man. The GEPIK department "selected from highly qualified people," I've been told. The vice principal is worried he's black. It's truly disappointing to hear this as a legitimate worry. I'm speechless.

[andrewchon]

Don't you worry, Koreans know serving him fried chicken will suppress his primitive urges.

[passport220]

[broken76]

The GEPIK head office this semester as have EPIK and SMOE have really been the only equal opportunity employers. They pretty much don't care about race, nationality or sex but only really care about credentials. They've pretty much taken the top 10% of candidates based on resumes.
Now individual schools that hire usually also take into account looks, race and nationality when it comes to hiring.
As for saving money overall the school itself may save money by going through the GEPIK office but then again since GEPIK would have given them the money it's the same thing. Schools get a budget to use on hiring a foreign teacher if they don't use it they lose it.

[wylies99]

[broken76]

Wylie's I thought you'd know by now but I'm a recruiter.

[wylies99]