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jgrant85
Joined: 31 May 2009
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 Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 8:25 pm Post subject: Public School Start Date |
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| My hagwon contract is finishing in May 2012 and I will get married in the Philippines at that time. My question is this: are there any public schools (I want to switch from hagwon) that will hire with a start date around June? From what I've read most start in March or late August. If not, is there any schools that bend a little on the start date or are they all rigidly set in stone? |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 8:56 pm Post subject: Re: Public School Start Date |
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| jgrant85 wrote: |
| My hagwon contract is finishing in May 2012 and I will get married in the Philippines at that time. My question is this: are there any public schools (I want to switch from hagwon) that will hire with a start date around June? From what I've read most start in March or late August. If not, is there any schools that bend a little on the start date or are they all rigidly set in stone? |
Spend a month on the beach in the RP (honeymoon) and then get a job in a PS at the end of the summer break. May is the right time to be applying for August starts in a PS. You have a year to get your new set of documents in order.
After you get back and settled into your PS job (and have your ARC) you can bring your new wife with you on an F3 (dependent family visa). She will need to get a CFO sticker before Phils-immigration will let her out of the country (or even let her get a passport if she doesn't have one already).
Also, don't short-cut the 10 day wait between the marriage license application and the wedding date. If you do it will bite you in the azz later,
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jgrant85
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| Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Technically we are married (sorry I should have been more clear on that). We have had the legal documents done, we are just going for the church wedding (she's already with my under the F3 visa). My concern is that I can't go 3 months with no pay (June, July, and most of August). We had originally planned to get married 2nd week of May and have the rest of the month as the honeymoon. I'm shooting for public school mainly so we'll have more vacation time (she wants to visit her family more often). I'm just trying to figure out how to work this so we have as little down time as possible between jobs. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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Unfortunately, May is still the time for applying to PS positions (along with all the other new grad applicants).
The only thing you can do it start networking now and hope for a private hire to a PS rather than go through the public recruitment drive.
Last option is to save for a year (3 months off in the RP isn't that expensive (been there done that - same situation you are in).
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jgrant85
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| Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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| I've never heard PS hiring privately. Does that happen often? |
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ttompatz
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| Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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| jgrant85 wrote: |
| I've never heard PS hiring privately. Does that happen often? |
For a PS, taking an applicant fom EPIK/GEPIK is pretty much a lottery both in terms of the quality of the NET they get and whether or not they will even get one.
Hundreds of teachers are hired under the auspices of the main programs but are hired outside of the main recruitment directly by the school or school district.
ALL of my PS positions were direct hires to the school and not through a recruitment drive by GEPIK. There are about 1000 (+ or - 5%) NETS in Gyeonggi and Seoul who were NOT hired by the PS recruitment but directly by the school they work for.
About the only other difference is that you either transfer your visa to the school or obtain a new visa and get a visa confirmation number instead of the NOA sent by the government.
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jgrant85
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| Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:17 am Post subject: |
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| How do I go about this? Just walk into the school and ask about a job? |
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