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winterfall
Joined: 21 May 2009
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 Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 4:56 am Post subject: |
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| PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
Lots of good advice on applying for PS positions through other paths already so here is my take...
If you apply directly through EPIK and have a M.A. you stand a lesser chance of being hired. EPIK is for the most part an entry-level program. they seek assistant teachers who will support the Korean co-teacher. In that respect, they feel a B.A. is sufficient.
so you basically worked against yourself by applying in an employment stream that prefers B.A. holders.
Change your tactic, apply through other means as was discussed earlier in this thread. You are not over-qualified but your higher qualifications will work against you depending on how you apply for a position. |
That's not always true. In the last 2 years, a slew of M.A.'s got hired for Seoul Global High School. I met quite a few of them, they were hired specifically for their master's subject area. Even though SMOE doesn't do the recruiting anymore EPIK seems like they're using the same criteria to find more people. I don't envy them though. Their pay rate is the same as any other FT but they teach like 4 different subjects on top of a small core set of conversation classes |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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| You might want to look into teaching Korean English teachers. Sometimes they send Korean English teachers to isolated dormitory style teaching centers' in Korea. I knoe there's one in Pyongteck it's under a program called ETTIK. English Teacher trainers in Korea. |
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jusitn007000
Joined: 09 Apr 2011
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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| jrwhite82 wrote: |
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| Has anybody with a MA gotten into SMOE or GEPIK? I'm just finishing my M.eD in TESOL and I'm getting the feeling I've educated myself out a job. |
I have a MA in Elementary Ed. I got a job. I applied directly to the school though.
You haven't out educated yourself. |
But you have a teaching certificate, I do not. I feel like that when you consider that they are just looking for college educated native speakers with a clean criminal background check, why pay more for somebody with an MA in American history? I don't even begrudge them that.
Mostly just was a bit disappointed because it seemed like a sure bet. But I also had a bad recruiter. My recruiter failed to tell me that I needed to specially request a seal and signature on my CRC and failed to tell me that I can only get my CRC apossitled in Washington, DC, she told me I could get it done at the Illinois Secretary of States Office in Chicago, and seemed shocked when I told her that I went there, and a photo copy of my BA apossitled but not my FBI CRC. When I went to get the stuff apossitled and realized that I couldn't get my FBI CRC apossitled, I looked through what I needed to do to get my FBI CRC apossitled, and saw it needed a seal of certification, so I paid to overnight it to the FBI... |
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