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ChiangMaiCharlie
Joined: 25 May 2010
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 12:13 am Post subject: Where are all the jobs???? |
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Hey where are all the jobs? There's like two postings put up today despite new visa regs and terms starting???
I came back to Korea with all my docs thinking it'd be fairly straightforward to pick up another public or private school but there aren't even that many hagwans advertising. |
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Waluigi
Joined: 09 Apr 2009
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There are about as many jobs here at the moment as there are in Chiang Mai, Charlie... ie - not many.
You really have to have some kind of connection here at the moment to find jobs. I was applying for ages and hearing nothing from recruiters, and I wasn't even insisting on Seoul like most people seem to. I got lucky and a friend of a friend posted on Facebook about a job coming free, which I applied for and got.
It seems every couple of days there's a thread on here about there being no jobs... it is certainly a lot different than it was just a year ago..  |
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isthisreally
Joined: 01 Sep 2007
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Louis VI
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
Location: In my Kingdom
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| I helped my hagwon boss hire someone by sifting through applicants: about 50 replied to the ad, half of them form replies with no tailoring to the specific job being offered so into the trash can they went; of the remaining two dozen only six or seven had all their documents in hand and ready to go and provided the requested info and picture and contact phone number with their email, and a shortlist of four was made and contacted and from them only two were available and keen to do phone interviews and one job offer was made. Where along that process would you have been axed? |
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paulandsilas
Joined: 18 Aug 2010
Location: Daejeon, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 5:45 am Post subject: |
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| I had to use a recruiter to find a job, and he pretty much indicated that you have to be open to going anywhere. I've been in Daejeon for about a week. |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye
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| Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 6:14 am Post subject: |
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Jobwise Korea has become far more trouble and expense than it is worth. Certainly not for the calibre of jobs on offer.
I've come this far down the road so I'll see it through now, but..never again. |
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SeoulNate
Joined: 04 Jun 2010
Location: Hyehwa
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| Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Louis VI wrote: |
| I helped my hagwon boss hire someone by sifting through applicants: about 50 replied to the ad, half of them form replies with no tailoring to the specific job being offered so into the trash can they went; of the remaining two dozen only six or seven had all their documents in hand and ready to go and provided the requested info and picture and contact phone number with their email, and a shortlist of four was made and contacted and from them only two were available and keen to do phone interviews and one job offer was made. Where along that process would you have been axed? |
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I have done the same thing twice in the past 3 months. I would say we got upwards of 50-100 candidates each time and an amazing amount couldn't follow the simple instructions on what to include when they applied. It makes me wonder how any of them were employed in their home countries. |
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be the ball
Joined: 19 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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| SeoulNate wrote: |
| Louis VI wrote: |
| I helped my hagwon boss hire someone by sifting through applicants: about 50 replied to the ad, half of them form replies with no tailoring to the specific job being offered so into the trash can they went; of the remaining two dozen only six or seven had all their documents in hand and ready to go and provided the requested info and picture and contact phone number with their email, and a shortlist of four was made and contacted and from them only two were available and keen to do phone interviews and one job offer was made. Where along that process would you have been axed? |
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I have done the same thing twice in the past 3 months. I would say we got upwards of 50-100 candidates each time and an amazing amount couldn't follow the simple instructions on what to include when they applied. It makes me wonder how any of them were employed in their home countries. |
I've been in and out of Korea for work since 1995, and one thing I will say hasn't changed much: Many, perhaps most, of the teachers here were more than likely unemployable in their home countries. |
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RMNC
Joined: 21 Jul 2010
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This is why I never have fear of being able to get a new contract, I am able to follow simple instructions, have everything ready to go, a good picture, a professional looking resume, contact info, an e-mail that is professional and serious, and I'm willing to do an interview late at night to get a job.
Most people don't meet those qualifications. |
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mm
Joined: 01 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 1:23 am Post subject: |
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| SeoulNate wrote: |
| Louis VI wrote: |
| I helped my hagwon boss hire someone by sifting through applicants: about 50 replied to the ad, half of them form replies with no tailoring to the specific job being offered so into the trash can they went; of the remaining two dozen only six or seven had all their documents in hand and ready to go and provided the requested info and picture and contact phone number with their email, and a shortlist of four was made and contacted and from them only two were available and keen to do phone interviews and one job offer was made. Where along that process would you have been axed? |
this +1
I have done the same thing twice in the past 3 months. I would say we got upwards of 50-100 candidates each time and an amazing amount couldn't follow the simple instructions on what to include when they applied. It makes me wonder how any of them were employed in their home countries. |
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My workplace requested that applicants mail their packages in. They wrote on the advertisement in big bold letters NO EMAILS. Around 75 people never got their application read because they emailed it in. |
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Hotwire
Joined: 29 Aug 2010
Location: Multiverse
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