Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Illysook]

I have a young friend who is being recruited by a company that has unpaid training before her contract begins. I've never heard of this before. Is this real? What a crock of poo!

[Skippy]

How much unpaid training? And what constitutes training - sitting in class watch another teacher teach, classes, watching videos from the early 90's with bad grammar and humor.

I would also be very careful with timing. Some schools may want to be sneaky and at the end of 52 weeks aka one year, will say oh sorry whoops you only did 50 weeks remember that 2 weeks training that did not count, you did not complete you full year, sorry no Severance or plane ticket for you. ALWAYS CHECK THAT OUT!

[Skyblue]

Look on the bright side and call it free training.

[DeLaRed]

CDI?

[Illysook]

Yes, it was CDI. Fortunately, she had me to keep her from signing her life away. There are too many reasonable companies to be bothering with them. Among other stinky things in the contract, she would have to work Saturdays and only get 2 sick days and 5 vacation days.

[Skyblue]

[liz88]

This doesn't sound right to me...I'd negotiate that one..

[Hotpants]

Yeah, I'd at least want the training to be within my contract dates, not before. It makes a mess of the E2 visa dates vs contract dates, since the E2 1 yr date will already have started some time before you actually commence your 1 yr contract date from the sound of it. I'd also be fussy about being required to attend the work premises before I started a job, but not being covered by insurance etc.

However, on the plus side, that any training is being offered for any job in Korea is unusual, and it could be really useful if it's proper training by people who know what they are talking about.