Korean Job Discussion Forums

dirving · Joined: 19 Nov 2009 Location: South Korea

Appletree tried to get me to accept illegal contracts and ignored my reuquests for location, salary, age levels, etc. The woman who lives in Colorado, U.S.A. was absolutely two-faced with me.

carpenocturne · Joined: 25 Sep 2009

hlmcclellan1 · Joined: 04 Jun 2012

I just wanted to say that Appletree is amazing! I got in touch with a lot of recruiters to get teacher jobs but appletree really stood out. They keep in close contact with you and bend over backwards to get you everything you want and take everything you say seriously. They DO keep in contact with you once you reach the school and even sent someone to the immigration office to help me out with my ARC card. I cant say enough good things about them, if you want to get an english teaching job in korea via a recruiting agency then use appletree Smile

Darkeru · Joined: 21 Apr 2010 Location: England

Sent off an e-mail to Appletree. Will see how it goes.

Charlie Bourque · Joined: 27 Jun 2010

I see 4 websites for Appletree. Which is THE Appletree?

http://www.appletreeedu.com/

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leilam12 · Joined: 04 Jun 2012 Location: TX

Charlie, that seems to be the right website.

rayne · Joined: 05 Aug 2009

Trote · Joined: 19 Aug 2012

I recently had a strange experience with Appletree.

First they sent me job details for a position, and asked if I was interested. I liked the look of the job so I said I was interested and an interview was arranged. Fast-forward to the interview, half way in they ask me why I am interested in teaching young children. From here the interview got really awkward. Appletree has sent me details saying a different age group. I was surprised and confused. And I am sure I didn't answer following quesion very well. I also asked about the location of the school, which was again completely different.

I don't know if they had already filled previous postion and just got another school to interview me without informing me. But that is my best guess as to what happened ...

CPJ · Joined: 30 Dec 2008

I think people should understand that they are going to sign a contract with a school, not a recruiter.

So technically, it really doesn't matter what recruiter you use! And thus, use them all.

What matters a great deal is the school you work for.

So check out the schools and worry less about the recruiter. This means talking to teachers at the school and getting all your questions answered.

The only benefit I can see from using a certain recruiter is if they have been around for a long time and have a lot of connections with schools. I know certain schools will only use certain recruiters that they have a long history work with. Usually, these recruiters deal with a specific city or area. So the school may receive applications from several recruiters but will only hire the teacher from a certain recruiter. So if it is a good school, you won't get the job unless you used that recruiter. Another reason to use many recruiters.

I remember this being the case at one of my previous schools. The teacher we ended up hiring was an average teacher compared to some of the other applicants. I was given like 15-20 resumes by my boss and told to pick 3 that I thought would be good to hire. I chose 3. The next day, I was given 5 resumes and told to pick one or two. I asked what's wrong the the 3 I had originally chose and he said he didn't want to use the other recruiters and was going to hire a teacher using the recruiter that he knew.