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jrwhite82
Joined: 22 May 2010
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 Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:24 pm Post subject: 1st Year Korea Teaching Survey |
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I thought it might be helpful and interesting to gain some community info on teaching conditions and compensation packages for 1st year teachers. I created a survey that seeks to find information that might be pertinent to job searchers and 1st year teachers.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TQ6XHNZ
There is always a lot of discussion on work conditions, prefered candidates, and types of schools for 1st year teachers.
So my questions seek to answer what kinds of candidates are being hired based on experience, visa type, age, race, nationality etc...And also, what kinds of compensation packages they are receiving.
I am not an expert on making surveys (or anything else really) so please don't fry me for the way I worded questions and answers.
Thanks for taking the time to answer these 10 questions!
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TQ6XHNZ
I will post results in a few days (or you can see them for yourself by completing the survey!) |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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I learned two things from this:
1) No one thinks that they're a hideous beast.
2) A lot of people get some seriously crappy vacation. |
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jrwhite82
Joined: 22 May 2010
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 12:17 am Post subject: |
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| northway wrote: |
I learned two things from this:
1) No one thinks that they're a hideous beast.
2) A lot of people get some seriously crappy vacation. |
LMAO - We also could use to hit the gym collectively! |
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fungrel
Joined: 26 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 5:53 am Post subject: |
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| You must know a lot of Australians, or be one yourself. 14%?!? As many Australians as Canadians? |
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jrwhite82
Joined: 22 May 2010
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 6:05 am Post subject: |
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| USA here. Yeah, I'm surprised by that as well. |
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Yellowstone_1872
Joined: 12 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:49 am Post subject: |
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Jr,
If you would care to share the stats from this, I've got a degree in statistics and I'd love to poke around in your survey results to see if the expected correlations with white/attractive and higher wage/better situations show up.
Let me know if you are willing to share the info. You can PM me or just reply on the board. |
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Yellowstone_1872
Joined: 12 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:51 am Post subject: |
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| fungrel wrote: |
| You must know a lot of Australians, or be one yourself. 14%?!? As many Australians as Canadians? |
Might just be a time zone thing since it hasn't been up all that long. I'd guess it would even out over the week. |
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nukeday
Joined: 13 May 2010
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| i'd say the survey is slightly flawed. one being the vacation option. 10-19 days. i'd say 90% of the people who answered yes to that have 10 days vacation, as is standard in a lot of hagwon contracts. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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| nukeday wrote: |
| i'd say the survey is slightly flawed. one being the vacation option. 10-19 days. i'd say 90% of the people who answered yes to that have 10 days vacation, as is standard in a lot of hagwon contracts. |
There is a difference between those that include the national holidays and those that don't (CDI). |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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| A question about who did/didnt get health & pension benefits would have been interesting. |
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nukeday
Joined: 13 May 2010
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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| northway wrote: |
| nukeday wrote: |
| i'd say the survey is slightly flawed. one being the vacation option. 10-19 days. i'd say 90% of the people who answered yes to that have 10 days vacation, as is standard in a lot of hagwon contracts. |
There is a difference between those that include the national holidays and those that don't (CDI). |
Umm, most hagwon contracts I've seen say 10 calendar days vacation, not including national holidays. I'm aware CDI might pull that stunt, but back when they used to pay well hourly, I'd say that was a trade-off that people willfully chose. Either way, the survey doesn't really encompass that.
If we're including national holidays and random days the school is closed for no reason, I'd change my answer to a higher number. But that's not really a "vacation."
I'm just saying it might've been useful to do 0-5, then 6-10, then 11-20. the numbers may have been more meaningful then. I think there are a lot more people getting 10 days vacation than there are people getting 0-5 days. 2 weeks vacation being standard in the US, although it is pretty sucky that you are usually forced to take one week in summer and one in winter...and they also sometimes pull some crap where it's Tuesday-Monday or the like so you get 7 rather than 9 days |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry, veering a bit off-topic here but still regards vacation.
For comparison sake, in Canada, a first-year employee is entitled to zero vacation. In the 2nd year after continuous employment they get 2 weeks that they prepaid for themselves via a 4% pay deduction.
Other countries similar? Be thankful for what you get. |
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jrwhite82
Joined: 22 May 2010
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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| nukeday wrote: |
| i'd say the survey is slightly flawed. one being the vacation option. 10-19 days. i'd say 90% of the people who answered yes to that have 10 days vacation, as is standard in a lot of hagwon contracts. |
Yeah, with the basic (free) account, I'm really hamstrung on my options. |
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jrwhite82
Joined: 22 May 2010
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Yellowstone_1872 wrote: |
Jr,
If you would care to share the stats from this, I've got a degree in statistics and I'd love to poke around in your survey results to see if the expected correlations with white/attractive and higher wage/better situations show up.
Let me know if you are willing to share the info. You can PM me or just reply on the board. |
I will try to get them. That's really what I am after too. I don't know if it will let me access it like that on the free account, unless I pay to upgrade to premium....(kinda broke right now though!) If I can get them, I will shoot you a PM with the password. |
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Reise-ohne-Ende
Joined: 07 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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I thought this was really interesting! Thanks for making it. 
I was shocked about the vacation too. This year with EPIK I got 10 vacation days in the winter, 12-13 in the winter (can't remember), 10 days for renewing, plus the ~14 national holidays. So all in all 47 days vacation? Around 6.5 weeks? Freaking awesome. This really is a great job, haha. |
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