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[toomuchtime]

What are you folks doing with the recent requests from schools for sealed transcripts as part of the application package?

"REQUIRED DOCUMENTS
- Current resume and cover letter
- Copy of undergraduate and graduate diplomas
- Set of official, sealed undergraduate and graduate transcripts (mailed to us directly from the university)
- Copies of personal data pages from your passport and current visa (if you are currently teaching in Korea)
- 2-3 recent letters of reference
- 3 passport sized color photos taken recently
- All documents should be submitted no later than June 24, 2005

Documentation should be mailed to:
Cheon Myeong-ho
Sungkyun Language Institute
Sungkyunkwan University
300, Cheoncheon-dong, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, 440-746, South Korea
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 82-31-290-5231 "


I think it's pretty bogus. I still send copies, and am fully prepared to deliver the real goods if/when I'm hired. But now I'm wondering if not providing them from the get-go might damage my chances of getting the job in the first place.

TMT.

[Pyongshin Sangja]

It's not bogus. It's not the school, it's Immigration. You can't apply without them. It's a new law. Sorry, Charlie.

Scroll down and look at the Yonsei, Wonju campus ad:

[rapier]

I've just ordered 30 copies from my uni.

I think asking to get them mailed directly to your prospective employer from your uni is asking a bit much: time consuming for a start. presenting them in an unopened, sealed and postmarked envelope should be sufficient.

Are all the schools asking for them to be sent directly to them from the uni, or is it just this one? because its becoming a bit impractical now...I mean it takes up to a month to arrive.

[Derrek]

One thing's for sure... don't send them a darned thing until you know you have the job.

I can just see the schools and recruiters wanting to take advantage of this one -- thinking they can lock you in.

[Grotto]

This could be interesting. I know of at least two Canadian uni's that will not mail out transcripts to a third party.

whats next? an original copy of your degree in a sealed envelope with a DNA encoded microchip?

[Derrek]

I half wonder if immigration isn't licking their chops at the prospects of nailing teachers and fining them for working early before the transcripts come in the mail.

[harryh]

[Pyongshin Sangja]

[toomuchtime]

So the Sungkyunkwan University job was posted today, and the closing date is June 24. They expect that sealed transcripts from universities abroad are going to be there in nine days? I'm really having a hard time with this requirement. What's wrong with applying with copies, and sending the originals if one gets the job? The K. gov't has really gone overboard here.
Arrrrgg! 'Hulk, mad!' "Hulk, smash!"

[toomuchtime]

Okay then, check this ad out: http://www.eslcafe.com/jobs/korea/index.cgi?read=16443

Kyungpook National University
please submit the following:
1) Resume w/cover letter and photo (please mention where you saw this advert)
2) Copy of your passport page w/photo
3) Copies of all degrees & transcripts
4) Three (3) letters of recommendation (personal and/or professional)

Now this is reasonable.

Ahhhhhh. (slowly changing back into Banner).

[Pyongshin Sangja]

Kyongpook is wrong. It's a new law, they're unaware of the change. Sungkyungwan expects you to come to Korea with the proper documents. These include sealed transcripts. Immigration, if the new law is being enforced, won't issue a visa without sealed transcripts.

[Grotto]

ahhh just do the same thing Koreans do.
Oh sorry, next time, sorry, okay?

[gmat]

-To reiterate what some have already have said and many have ignored-

It has nothing to do with the employers, the sealed transcripts are REQUIRED by Immigration now. You can not get a visa without immigration first receiving your sealed transcripts.

It is a new Immigration/Visa requirement.

[Teufelswacht]

O.K. maybe this is a dumb question. I wouldn't be my first or last. Anyways,

Let's say you have your university send them directly or you hand carry sealed transcripts to the university and, during the employment process, they open them. Do you then have to get another sealed set to give immigration to get the visa to work at that university?

In other words do you, in fact, need two sealed transcripts for one job? Or will/does the university/employer certify to immigration that they were received sealed and that will suffice.

I think the jury is still out on this. Basically, employers and immigration probably haven't a clue on how long it takes or the fact that some universities won't send transcripts to a third party.

I remember when immigration tried the 4 year BA rule for the E-2 visa. That lasted all of a month. This may be a little longer but I think it will smooth out once they realize it is much easier to have a database or something where once approved for an E-2 you don't have to go through this transcript nut roll with each job change.

[desultude]