Korean Job Discussion Forums

Gorf · Joined: 25 Jun 2011

I had three in-person interviews in the past two weeks, 5 phone interviews, and a bunch of minor bites from e-mails I've sent as well. I also got a job offer but I'm rejecting it in favor of a better school. Also, I'm only looking for after school programs, not hagwons or public school. If you can't get a job, especially with the economy going up every day, then you're doing something wrong. Get a better photo where you look like less of a dingus, format your resume to a proper, non-high schooler style, and stop using "ledzepproxx88" as your Gmail name. It's not that hard getting a job. Getting the docs is by far the hardest part.

Gorf · Joined: 25 Jun 2011

edit: Dave's bb code sucks

JustinC · Joined: 10 Mar 2012 Location: We Are The World!

It seems diligent to write that message twice, but maybe you're just counting all of the responses twice?

/I keed

PatrickGHBusan · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 8:35 am Post subject:

Korea is still a viable option but it is an employers market. The decline trend that is discussed here for Korea is more of a transition than a true decline. The market still demands teachers but now is more demanding as well in terms of visa issuance. Like Japan before it, the market has "matured" into something else and is no longer the wild east open buffet it was a short 10 years ago.

China is on the upswing as they are less demanding in terms of selection of teachers. It is in many ways what Japan and Korea were before.

[email protected] · Joined: 26 Sep 2012

Been applying since Aug here. Got all my documents ready to go. So far I've applied to about a dozen recruiters and have only gotten a few preliminary calls (where do you want to work, what age group, do you have your documents, etc). Now I'm aiming for Feb/March 2013.

Heard the economy won't pick up till 2016 and we won't see any boom times till about 2020.

nautilus · Joined: 26 Nov 2005 Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!

John Stamos jr. · Joined: 07 Oct 2012 Location: Namsan

nautilus · Joined: 26 Nov 2005 Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!

John Stamos jr. · Joined: 07 Oct 2012 Location: Namsan

I'm missing something. I thought Gorf was a dude and you added that part.

Gorf · Joined: 25 Jun 2011

John got the joke, the naut didn't get that John got the joke.

I'm a painfully handsome white male from America, if it clears it up. I accepted an after school job offer today in a really nice part of Seoul. Woop de dip de dip. Wasn't even hard to find, just trolling worknplay, Dave's, hiexpat and a few others for a few minutes a day for good looking AS programs. I fail to see how anyone could even fail to get a horrible kindy hagwon job out in the sticks. If you're REALLY intent on getting a job, there's numerous (possibly horrible) ones out there to keep that sweet, sweet E-2 visa juice flowing.

John Stamos jr. · Joined: 07 Oct 2012 Location: Namsan

I'd leave the country if my only choice was to work at a hagwon or public school. Being transient in your 20s, trying to live wild for a while, etc... there are better countries out there to work in that won't break you on some 9-7 or 2-10 shift. If I'm not working 11-5, with two of those free hours, in an empty school where no one checks on me, and the 4th grade up classes teach themselves, I won't be here. There are definitely major perks here if you're Korea's definition of "handsome," as well... though it can get to some people's head...

Honestly, there are, apparently, good "hagwon" jobs here. And a friend of mine has a job he likes teaching adults one on one where he doesn't have to do splits. People can take it as a moral issue if they want, but there's some sense in taking the best crappy job you can get, flying over, work for a few months, save up some dough, then find a better job, maybe an after school job. I couldn't do that year of 2-10 pm stuff myself. I don't think the market is that horrendous. For one of my AS interviews they told me there were about 8-10 people they were looking at. That's pretty good for a job where you do nothing and get to choose where you live.

Moondoggy · Joined: 07 Jun 2011

jakesalva · Joined: 06 Jun 2012

Well i finally got a job offer a few days back, but i got my doubts about the position, because the contract is sketchy, the chain notorious, and i feel that they are already being a little dishonest with me.

So I'm gonna keep looking while I try to make up my mind. I'm actually back in Korea now, so i'm pounding the pavement, handing out resumes.

One thing that i think i may have been doing wrong (and this is mentioned in another thread elswhere) is telling them that i have a D10 visa. I thought this would be a real string to my bow, beucase it means i can go back to E2 very easily. But most recruiters and schools don't know what it is. And are therefore simply moving onto the next applicant.