Korean Job Discussion Forums

jellobean · Joined: 14 Mar 2006

I know it isn't quite the season yet, but which recruiter for SMOE is the easiest and most user friendly? The most likely to get people hired? Thanks.

Kimchieluver · Joined: 02 Mar 2005

Mr. Kim

Xuanzang · Joined: 10 Apr 2007 Location: Sadang

Joyce Kim, Korvia

chickyabroad · Joined: 24 Jul 2006 Location: Seoul

I went through Claire at Think Outside. She was great - always answered emails promptly (and I emailed quite a few times with kind of complicated questions) & called to see how things were going.

egrog1717 · Joined: 12 Mar 2008

jkelly80 · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Location: you boys like mexico?

I wouldnt' recommend footprints. They didn't relate the policy regarding my transcripts and cost me an extra 80 dollars in postage fees. I paid because I had to, but I wasn't too happy.

Also they told me I only needed 2 passport pictures when I in fact needed 3, and then tried to tell me I had to airmail just ONE passport picture over to them at the cost of another 80 dollars. I told them no dice and they acquiesced. Bush league, IMO.

I've had friends that did Work n Play and they've had good reports.

egrog1717 · Joined: 12 Mar 2008

Weird... Mayhap just a bad person on the staff... My only problem with them was that they sat on my file for almost two weeks before passing it on to the SMOE to see if they wanted to interview me... Not a huge deal though...

jkelly80 · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Location: you boys like mexico?

missty · Joined: 19 Feb 2008

Jay Lee at Korea Connections was great.

hang10 · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:11 am Post subject:

Otherside · Joined: 06 Sep 2007

Ukon · Joined: 29 Jan 2008

Canucksaram · Joined: 29 Apr 2003

Deal with Joyce Kim at KorVia and you can't go wrong.

jellobean · Joined: 14 Mar 2006

So let me add a twist to this. I don't know what's up with the economy back home, but it seems everyone I know now has siblings wanting to come to Korea despite the current exchange rate.

For yet another friend's sister, does anyone with some skin pigmentation have a particular SMOE recruiter they'd like to recommend or any advice they'd like to share.?

So far it seems like Joyce Lee from Kovira is getting the most positives without any negatives.

ardis · Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Location: Seoul

Jay Lee from Korea Connections gets another vote for me. He always responded promptly (within a day or even within a few hours) to my constant inquiries and never misinformed me. I was with Footprints and WorknPlay, as well--both always offered me positions that were the complete opposite of what I had stated in my application. They would say, "We have these great hagwon openings in Suwon/Daejon/Busan!" to which I would constantly reply, "I wanted a public school...in Seoul."