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minos
Joined: 01 Dec 2010
Location: kOREA
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 Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 10:01 am Post subject: |
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| edwardcatflap wrote: |
| Well done if you get the job but I�d think twice about what kind of place you�d be working at if you were offered it. Wouldn�t you think it was a fairly amateurish set up to employ a guy straight out of Uni with not much experience or real qualifications? If they normally employ people with the right credentials, how do you think your future colleagues (with their MAs and years of experience) will feel having to work alongside someone who is not really equipped for the job but knows someone who makes the decisions? How will the students feel if they find out you�re not properly qualified. Why wouldn�t your lecturer have considered all these issues before she made her rash offer? I would like to think TomPpatz was wrong about this one but if you are offered the job I�d say it adds even more fuel to the argument that Korean universities really don�t take TEFL seriously. |
Compared to even a decent hagwon or public school position, a crappy university job wins hands down. If he's just starting out and can land a job at ANY university, he's ahead of the ballgame. Even if it's not great...a year of uni experience is going to go a long ways in lining up a 2nd uni position.
Also....I realize that you work at a good university, where undoubtedly it is different....but the vast majority of universities in Korea still hire fairly unqualified English lecturers...not recent grads, but it's pretty easy to get "a" university job if you have 2 years of experience and are professional and can interview well.
Our school claims to take TEFL seriously, but I don't buy it.....I wouldn't be surprised at all if they hired a recent grad into the English department if he/she was good buds with one of the other profs. |
I've done what you've said after 2 years and university offers haven't exactly flown in.... I went back to hagwons instead after trying to work in the middle of nowhere for a Univ. again.
The good university offers in big cities aren't gonna hand off to a B.A. with experience.....They have applicants who taught Uni students when they got their Masters 
Chances are he'll get some position at some crap uniwon in the middle of nowhere and move up to a better Uni position in the middle of nowhere.
If that's his aim, then yeah, It's not too hard.
The job market is really tight....especially at the master level....alot more are coming over. |
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