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ontheway · Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 9:50 am Post subject:

Recruiters bring the parties together, try to find a match for both sides, help with legal paperwork, and when the deal is done they get a small fee for their trouble. Schools use recruiters because there are a lot of crap applicants out there. The recruiter weeds out some of them and provides a service to the school. The school pays for the service.

Both parties need to look out for themselves - the teacher and the school. The recruiter is like a matchmaker. It can bring the two parties together but it's up to the couple to make a good marriage.

If you make a bad deal, don't blame the recruiter. They get paid by the school and they are not your mother.

For the school, the recruiter often presents applicants that the school rejects. Frustratingly, they only give the school one applicant at a time to accept or reject. The school is under a great deal of pressure to accept subpar teachers because that's all there is available. In our last round of hiring our hogwan had to reject a parade of poor quality applicants. I would be sad, but not surprised, to find them all teaching out there somewhere.

Still it is useful to use a recruiter. They present choice after choice. Finally, when a gem appears, you can make a deal.

jacl · Joined: 31 Oct 2005

Some hagwon onwers who use recruiters really shouldn't be. I think it's a face thing because some owners speak better English than the recruiters.

Plus they could be using them so that a conflict of interest exists in the owner's favor.

fredinkorea · Joined: 30 Apr 2006

itchy · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Location: Busan

a recruiter you could try is ESLKOREA2006, they are based in Toronto and recruit for most of the big chain schools. The guy who runs the company is pretty honest and won't place you in a bad situation. Their email is [email protected]

rodneyc863 · Joined: 01 Jun 2006

Mich707 · Joined: 15 Jun 2006

I hope you are right ... I begin an ESL position for Stephen Cho and eduorange.com in one month Smile

I have spoken to him on the phone many times and he does not have any inkling of an Australian or American accent of any type.

Thanks for showing that the previous ramblings were all a "load of crap"

<Snip. . .just more trolling crap>

I hope nobody's actually taking this seriously. Stephen Cho's a good guy. He got me a good job, always did what he said, and I'm using him again.[/quote]

Plume D'ella Plumeria · Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Location: The Lost Horizon

I can't comment on this Stephan Cho person or on someone with the last name of Grommesh (sp?) I can however, comment on "Sunny Jang" from ENI, and I don't think Roch is talking out of his "whatever" on the point he made on that character. He wasn't trolling, I believe, when he talked about that guy. I had some dealings with the dishonourable Mr. Jang and he came across as a total thug and someone you wouldn't want anywhere near you at any time. I'll leave it at that, only to say that I felt that he was rather a crook, out for easy money without having to work for it and best avoided in any job search you are doing.

fredinkorea · Joined: 30 Apr 2006

DCJames · Joined: 27 Jul 2006

Recruiters are worthless unless you want a standard hogwan job in kyeonggi-do.

If you want a job to meet your specific requirements, then do your research and scour every job ad from multiple sites and call around to specific schools to negotiate what you want.

The best way to get a university job is to reply to job ads from the universities themselves, not recruiters. Recruiters will just dump your resume in a database and recruit you for their more urgent jobs.

jacl · Joined: 31 Oct 2005