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speck
Joined: 22 May 2009
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 Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 7:53 pm Post subject: A company called Carrot English? |
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Hi all!
I need the benefit of your collective experience. It's been difficult finding the right kind of info that I need anywhere, and I have searched through eslcafe.com.
I have recently been in contact with a Korean company about going to teach English to one of their Korean corporate clients. The quaint name of the company is Carrot English. I haven't found anything about this company on this board, and, in fact, I cannot find much comment about this company on the Web at all (except info produced by the company itself)... so it could be quite new - although http://www.archive.org has a record of carrotkr.com since Feb 2001.
Here is their telephone number (+82 2) 518-0036. Here are their Korean websites [ http://carrotkr.com/ ] and [ http://www.carrotenglish.com/ ] - seem to be mirror sites. Doesn't seem to be be much info in English there, except if you google then you can find a bunch of English pages, for example [ http://www.carrotenglish.com/eng/who/info.html ], but there doesn't seem to be any access to these pages from their main websites.
An opinion from other people who have previously got to know something about this company is more what I'm looking for. Anyone? Thanks for reading... and I'll update you if I decide to pursue things with Carrot. |
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BS.Dos.
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| Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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killyridols
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I heard that this was a telephone teaching operation. Students are called for 10 minutes every morning. One of my students used to subscribe to this service (if it is the same company)
Up the Clarets! |
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killyridols
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I heard that this was a telephone teaching operation. Students are called for 10 minutes every morning. One of my students used to subscribe to this service (if it is the same company)
Up the Clarets! |
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killyridols
Joined: 08 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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I heard that this was a telephone teaching operation. Students are called for 10 minutes every morning. One of my students used to subscribe to this service (if it is the same company)
Up the Clarets! |
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speck
Joined: 22 May 2009
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| Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 1:13 am Post subject: |
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| killyridols wrote: |
I heard that this was a telephone teaching operation. Students are called for 10 minutes every morning. One of my students used to subscribe to this service (if it is the same company)
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Thanks for that info about telephone teaching. It adds to the picture. Yeh, there's some info on their English pages about what they call "Phone Tutoring" (is that a good gig?) - although in-person teaching to a corporate client was the reason for my contact with Carrot.
More info from anyone would be great. |
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phoneboothface
Joined: 26 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 2:56 am Post subject: |
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What kind of visa are you on?
They shut me down on more than one occasion for not having married a Korean. |
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speck
Joined: 22 May 2009
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 2:27 am Post subject: |
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What kind of visa are you on?
They shut me down on more than one occasion for not having married a Korean. |
Hi phoneboothface! Thanks for your response.
I'm not in Korea yet - so no visa yet.
I wasn't clear on the situation you were describing... Carrot English terminated your employment.... more than once? Hmmm... What visa were you on, or supposed to be on? Was there a reason they were expecting you to have a spousal visa?
What kind of teaching were you doing for Carrot English?
What happened dude? |
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phoneboothface
Joined: 26 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 2:41 am Post subject: |
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Some recruiters will work with you and your visa sponsor, others are misinformed or lazy and only work with F series visa holders.
Shut me down as in denied me part time work through them since I didn't have the visa type they were looking for.
Are you in Korea now?
Anyways I think you know but most important is the job itself, the recruiter is just there to find then collect a fee. You can cut them out later if need be... if they don't disappear.
I wouldn't worry too much about going through them, just research the actual job itself as much as possible... |
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speck
Joined: 22 May 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 12:27 am Post subject: |
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Hi again phoneboothface!
That's too bad that they only wanted to deal with F-series visa holders.
Thanks for the pointer about researching the job.
I replied earlier that "I'm not in Korea yet - so no visa yet." So I will be relying on a work visa from the prospective employer... so that doesn't sound too good re Carrot English if they prefer to deal just with F-series visa holders.
Any more info on Carrot English anyone?
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Some recruiters will work with you and your visa sponsor, others are misinformed or lazy and only work with F series visa holders.
Shut me down as in denied me part time work through them since I didn't have the visa type they were looking for.
Are you in Korea now?
Anyways I think you know but most important is the job itself, the recruiter is just there to find then collect a fee. You can cut them out later if need be... if they don't disappear.
I wouldn't worry too much about going through them, just research the actual job itself as much as possible... |
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ingroup_vice
Joined: 23 May 2009
Location: Kangnam
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| Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 3:05 am Post subject: |
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| phoneboothface wrote: |
What kind of visa are you on?
They shut me down on more than one occasion for not having married a Korean. |
Hi phoneboothface! Thanks for your response.
I'm not in Korea yet - so no visa yet.
I wasn't clear on the situation you were describing... Carrot English terminated your employment.... more than once? Hmmm... What visa were you on, or supposed to be on? Was there a reason they were expecting you to have a spousal visa?
What kind of teaching were you doing for Carrot English?
What happened dude? |
Hmm... so they are hiring you from overseas to work with a corporate client? I could be off the mark, but I'm guessing that there is something marketable in your resume. If that's the case, I would suggest that they will try to use that thing in any way they can. |
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speck
Joined: 22 May 2009
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| Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 1:52 am Post subject: |
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| ingroup_vice wrote: |
Hmm... so they are hiring you from overseas to work with a corporate client? I could be off the mark, but I'm guessing that there is something marketable in your resume. If that's the case, I would suggest that they will try to use that thing in any way they can. |
Yeah "ingroup_vice", the corporate client is in Icheon (NOT Incheon), Gyeonggi-do (about 50km southeast of Seoul without a direct metro/subway link, about the same latitude south as Suwon is from Seoul but in a southeasterly direction), and they have 4-week sessions a few times during the year. As this corporate client seems to be willing to have this kind of program, my big guess is that it's quite a big corporation (I asked the recruiter about the location, but they said they wanted more info from me first).
As phoneboothface said to research the job: my research makes me guess that the client could be the large Hynix (semiconductor chips) facility which is approx. 3km southeast of Icheon. The only other large company around Icheon that I can dig up is the Hyundai Elevators which is in the same direction but slightly closer at 1-2km from Icheon town. Both look pretty isolated on satellite maps.
My feeling is, Icheon is already quite far from Seoul, and to be isolated again from Icheon "city" itself... might not be my cup of tea with that feeling of not being able to "escape" easily for some stress relief...
Any more input from board members about this likely corporate client, or on Carrot English? |
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