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nellehehe
Joined: 08 Aug 2011
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 Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 2:04 pm Post subject: Why am I having such a hard time finding a job? |
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Hello everyone.
My name is Ellen, Korean by ethnic, and I am pretty fluent.
I'm a US-born citizen, 21 years old, fresh out of undergrad (University of California, San Diego), Visual Art Studio major. I will be TEFL certified by the end of September, and I'm still waiting on my diploma to be sent from school so I can probably start working this November. I really want to go to Korea ASAP and start teaching. I love kids so I have some experience teaching at hakwons before and I also taught for youth group in my LA church and also my SD church.. but I had no OFFICIAL full-time working experience.
I put my resume up on this website, and I got like 20 e-mails. After sending my resume and photo, not a single one responded back. I also went on the Korean Job board but no luck.
Is it because I'm Korean? I know they prefer the whole blond hair/blue eyes-type-of-foreigner. How did you guys find your hakwon jobs? I did apply with Korvia but I kind of don't want to wait until NEXT YEAR to start working. I'd like to go ASAP, so a hakwon is preferable for me for now.
Ideal working conditions would be anywhere in Seoul, Incheon, or Ilsan. 9-5 job would be nice, or something like that. I would also need airfare and housing. Is this asking for too much? Sorry, so many questions! |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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1) If you don't have documents in hand, a lot of recruiters aren't going to want to deal with you. With the job market the way it is in the States, they get tons of people expressing interest who don't have the necessary documents and thus back out quickly.
2) If you can get an F-4 visa a lot of doors will open for you. |
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nellehehe
Joined: 08 Aug 2011
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| Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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Ohh thanks northway. I guess I should start looking after I have them all at hand?
Also, I cannot get the F4 so that is not an option for me. |
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Gorf
Joined: 25 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Being Korean doesn't help when finding a job either. Sorry, but them's the breaks. |
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ElephantJumper
Joined: 26 Apr 2011
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| Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm having the same problem as a caucasian with documents in hand. Less jobs because of the cut in GEPIK funding seems to be the problem. |
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World Traveler
Joined: 29 May 2009
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| Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| ElephantJumper wrote: |
| I'm having the same problem as a caucasian with documents in hand. |
Same here.
A recruiter is trying to get me to sign up for this:
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Working Time: AM 6:50:00 ~ PM 9:25:00
Housing + paid vacation for 5 days |
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I recommend you to secure a job quickly because of do to cutting down budget at GEPIK public schools, all the teachers are falling out and they are sooo ready to transfer to private schools.
This means tons of teachers, less jobs. Less jobs? Then the school�s boss will start to cut down salary.
The salary�s market price will even go down to 2.1 even with experience. They can be picky as they want and they will think why hire a teacher outside of Korea when they can get plenty of transferring teachers here in Korea and save flight money.
Keep this is mind.
This will be your best chance of securing a job |
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World Traveler
Joined: 29 May 2009
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| Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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Wow. We are truly the new Indonesian/Filipino migrant laborers.
Pretty soon, at this rate, Americans, Brits, Kiwis, etc. will be flooding into the most undesirable EFL markets in the world, pleading:
"I'm going to hike up my suspenders, work 12 hours a day for $300 a month, and use my first paycheck to buy my employer a gold-plated baton so he can beat me when I don't work hard enough!" |
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nellehehe
Joined: 08 Aug 2011
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| Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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| World Traveler wrote: |
| ElephantJumper wrote: |
| I'm having the same problem as a caucasian with documents in hand. |
Same here.
A recruiter is trying to get me to sign up for this:
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Working Time: AM 6:50:00 ~ PM 9:25:00
Housing + paid vacation for 5 days |
She sent me this:
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I recommend you to secure a job quickly because of do to cutting down budget at GEPIK public schools, all the teachers are falling out and they are sooo ready to transfer to private schools.
This means tons of teachers, less jobs. Less jobs? Then the school�s boss will start to cut down salary.
The salary�s market price will even go down to 2.1 even with experience. They can be picky as they want and they will think why hire a teacher outside of Korea when they can get plenty of transferring teachers here in Korea and save flight money.
Keep this is mind.
This will be your best chance of securing a job |
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PUAHHAHAHAA!! ARE YOU SERIOUS??????? Those hours are RIDICULOUS. Is that even legal?
Thanks guys for informing me about the GEPIK thing. had no idea. sucks for us =[ |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| The GEPIK thing may be true, but that spiel from the recruiter sounds like pure spin to me. The "less teachers" part applies but recruiters have a lot of control over who schools see. So they show the bright and pretty noobs to the okay schools since they'll work cheap and try to throw everyone else into some ridiculous conditions. |
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northway
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