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Dante57
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
Location: Suji, Yongin
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 Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 6:00 pm Post subject: Any info on English Academy in Jinhae, B/Pusan? |
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Anyone know anything about this school?
and has anyone every used Jun Education Recruiters? |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 7:02 pm Post subject: Re: Any info on English Academy in Jinhae, B/Pusan? |
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| Dante57 wrote: |
Anyone know anything about this school?
and has anyone every used Jun Education Recruiters? |
Now as to your school.......
It's a hakwon. You get the SAME message that every other newbie coming over here should have drilled into them.
This is a repeat from many previous messages and hasn't changed in years.
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Get e-mail addresses of more than one current teacher.
Talk / e-mail them when the boss is NOT there and they
are free to be honest with you.
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-Ask the current TEACHERS specific questions about shifts, start times, finish times, breaks, and pay issues.
(a schedule of class, no class, class, no class, class just plain sucks). Lots of dead time that you can't do anything with.
-How do they calculate your "teaching hours"?
How many CLASSES per month.
-OVERTIME, pension, and medical insurance are often issues of contention. Many hakwons fail to pay any of these. ASK!!!
- Ask about the housing - including quality of the apartment, management fees and utility costs. Your "free" apartment may cost you more than 150k won per month.
Feel free to ignore this advice... but you do so at your own peril.
Asking here is NOT the same as doing your homework and proper research.
There are TOO MANY hakwons in Korea and they often change names or owners when things get nasty. A year is a long time to spend in a crap hakwon 1/2 a world away from anything that you know and recognise.
CHECK FIRST HAND...... CHECK FIRST HAND.... CHECK FIRST HAND......
ANY and every good school will be willing to supply references.
If the school is uanble or unwilling to give you the names and e-mails of the current teachers then end your communication with them. A year is far too long to live in hakwan hell.
CHECK FIRST HAND...... CHECK FIRST HAND.... CHECK FIRST HAND......
Now about your recruiter....
The thing to remember is that for you a recruiter is NOTHING MORE THAN AN INTRODUCTION. They are NOT your babysitter. They will not help you when things go south. They CANNOT fix things between you and your employer. They will not bail you out.
To them, you are NOTHING MORE THAN A COMMISSION FOR AN INTRODUCTION. Their only job is to match a warm (and hopfully qualified body) to a school. For this the school pays them a fee and they leave.
Their obligation is finished after the introduction and they get paid.
Every recruiter has people who like them and EVERY recruiter has people who will say they are crap. There are NO exceptions to this.
Find one who will work with you. Finding a recruiter is like finding a good pair of shoes. There is no one size fits all and everyone looks for something different. |
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Dante57
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
Location: Suji, Yongin
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| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks,
I will take everything you said into account.  |
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