Korean Job Discussion Forums

ed4444 · Joined: 12 Oct 2004

I was talking to the people at KAIST about working there this year.

They were interested in me but they said I would have to fly from Korea to Boston to do an interview because they are doing all their recruitment at the annual TESOL convention in Boston.

http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/convention2010/index.asp

This is despite the fact that I am currently working at a University less than 90 mins drive from Daejeon. Seems like a strange approach. I am not going to Boston. I don't want to work there that much.

BoholDiver · Joined: 03 Oct 2009 Location: Canada

Do they make you pay your own pay to Boston?

If so, screw them. I wouldn't go either.

ed4444 · Joined: 12 Oct 2004

Yep. No expenses given.

BoholDiver · Joined: 03 Oct 2009 Location: Canada

Hahaha. Good luck finding someone.

cdninkorea · Joined: 27 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul

Moldy Rutabaga · Joined: 01 Jul 2003 Location: Ansan, Korea

If it's true, I wouldn't be broken up about not working for an institution so blind to turn down someone 90 minutes away, insisting that you fly across the world at your own expense to meet their bureaucratic convenience. Why would a department limit their prospective faculty in this way? It is foolishness and arrogance.