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MorgolKing · Joined: 18 May 2006

TIMES SEARCH INC is one of South Korea�s leading Executive Search Company with affiliates, networks and online solutions that are specifically designed to meet clients and candidates needs. TIMES SEARCH INC is now looking for highly qualified, talented and motivated individuals to join our client�s organization.

▣ THE CLIENT

The Client is a public schools in Seoul. Currently we are looking for EFL instructors for after school program.

▣ THE LOCATION

Public schools in Seoul.

▣ THE JOB

English Instructor

Responsibilities:

ⓐ Responsible for English classes including preparation for them

ⓑ Children evaluation if needed

▣ THE CANDIDATE

TIMES SEARCH INC is looking for qualified candidates that possess the following and experience:

ⓐ 1+ year of experience of teaching

ⓑ BA /BS or higher

ⓒ Must be from English native country, U.S.A., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, U.K. or Ireland

ⓓ Teacher�s licensee preferred

ⓔ English instructor�s licensee preferred

▣ THE COMPENSATION PACKAGE

Qualified candidates will be offered the following competitive compensation package:

ⓐ Monthly salary: 2.3 Mil KRW

ⓑ Working hours: 3.5 hours/day (1:00pm~4:30pm)

ⓒ Working days: Monday to Thursday

ⓓ Holidays: 10 days/year

ⓔ Housing: allowance offered

ⓕ Severance pay after completion of 1 year contract

Am I missing something here or is this just a rocking awesome job??

Lemonade · Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Location: South Korea

When it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck.....

alabamaman · Joined: 25 Apr 2006

I would like to see the whole contract before I make any judgement calls. If you could post it, that would be helpful.

Pak Yu Man · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Location: The Ida galaxy

So you are in Seoul and they give you a 'housing allowance' of 100,000 won an month. There goes your beautiful job.

jacl · Joined: 31 Oct 2005

flotsam · Joined: 28 Mar 2006

Yesterday · Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:16 am Post subject:

No amazing job offer find... you really have researched hard...

There are 1000's of those "after-school-public-school" positions out there - by many different companies...

- GLE (Good-luck English)
- KTS (Korea ...............)
- Win Educ...
- Jin recruting....
etc etc

They all offer the same thing - teach 1pm~4pm/5pm for 1.8~2.4 million per month....

Take it if you want - seems no amazing find to me -
here are the catches -

(since you are a P-T teacher (less than 18 hours per week) -

no medical insurance,
no pension,
pay-for-your own ticket,
low-rental subsidy,
only 2 weeks vacation (10 days) - [1st week March & 1st week August]
have to open 2 bank accounts and give one to employer
sign 2 contracts (one with school - one with company)
etc etc....

Don't get me wrong many of those jobs rule - much better than most Hagwons - but really there is nothing for you to be proclaiming about of the roof-tops to many foreign teachers who have already done those jobs...

alabamaman · Joined: 25 Apr 2006

Yesterday · Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 4:01 am Post subject:

MorgolKing · Joined: 18 May 2006

Yeah I've already accepted a job somewhere else--I just saw the ad and that it looked like a pretty sweet set up. Sorry no contract to post.

I have to agree with those hours and only working it M-Th the drawbacks don't seem too bad. I mean if you add all the hours that you don't have to be at work, when you would have to be under a typical contract, the "monetary" value of what you get I think outweighs the "monetary" value of those lose benefits (pension, med insurance, planet ticket, etc). But that's going to differ from person to person and what they want out of their job.