Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Karesta]

Which recruiters did you use to secure your job in Korea? I know a few of them have only been open to US teachers and was wondering if there was one who specialised or dealt mainly with Aus/NZ?

If not, could other Australians recommend who they used?

Thanks in advance!

[YTMND]

I suggest looking up resumes and finding out where NZ and AU teachers have taught at. For example, LinkedIn shows employment history. So google or yahoo search "http://nz.linkedin.com/" and "ESL" and "Korea".

This will give you the school names and you can try contacting them directly.

[blm]

I used Korvia.

Basically most public school recruiters don't care where you are from.

[big_fella1]

My first recruiter was a Korean student in Canada, who was working for a cut of the recruiting firms take.

My hagwon got very surprised that I wasn't a Canadian as the recruiter had butchered my resume somewhat.

The general advice on here is to go to multiple recruiters, they work for the schools not for you. If you are flexible as to location that helps. In the past if you were prepared to start in July or December that helped as many people are either celebrating their summer holiday or working camps for real money, or don't want to leave just before christmas.

Good luck mate and I haven't tried it myself as I'm married to a Korean but here China can be lucrative. The first contract will suck but after that there's room to earn more.