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Bloorteachers
Joined: 12 Mar 2012
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 Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 6:31 am Post subject: Recruitment company asking for transcripts and record checks |
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Hello,
I am in the processes of applying for my first job overseas with my wife. We have been in contact with some recruitment companies and some want the following documentations even before an interview or before they can tell us if they have matches for our qualifications (my wife and I need to work in the same area but we have different qualifications ... so its complicated)
Original Criminal Record Check
University Transcripts
Copies of our Passports
The record checks and the transcripts cost us money. Is it reasonable to ask for an interview before we provide these? If we sent every school and recruitment company these documents it would cost us a fortune! Also, I'm not sure if we are comfortable sending copies of our passports until later in the process for security reasons. I get that they want to make sure we are legally allowed to work in Korea before they consider us. Any thoughts?
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elriksanders
Joined: 06 Jan 2012
Location: Kansas City, MO
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 6:39 am Post subject: |
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| Um, yeah. You shouldn't have to send your Criminal Record Check or transcripts until you actually have a contract offered and then you will be sending them to the school you are going to work at. A scanned copy of your passport, however, might be part of the recruiting agency's application. There isn't much of a security risk involved with this. |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 6:44 am Post subject: Re: Recruitment company asking for transcripts and record ch |
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| Bloorteachers wrote: |
Original Criminal Record Check
University Transcripts
Copies of our Passports
The record checks and the transcripts cost us money. Is it reasonable to ask for an interview before we provide these? If we sent every school and recruitment company these documents it would cost us a fortune! Also, I'm not sure if we are comfortable sending copies of our passports until later in the process for security reasons. I get that they want to make sure we are legally allowed to work in Korea before they consider us. Any thoughts?
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The problem has been that recruiters have recruited potential teachers only to later see their E2 applications rejected...due to lack of adequate documents, or confusion over the latest regulations.
This has been a source of frustration to both teachers and recruiters, because the regulations are constantly changing and are in any case not properly set out or advertised.
So if I was a recruiter i'd probably want to ascertain that you have the required bits of paper first before proceding any further.
Its sjust symptomatic of the headache that working in Korea has become.
By the way...send scans by email. Never send the originals. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 4:05 pm Post subject: Re: Recruitment company asking for transcripts and record ch |
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| Bloorteachers wrote: |
Hello,
I am in the processes of applying for my first job overseas with my wife. We have been in contact with some recruitment companies and some want the following documentations even before an interview or before they can tell us if they have matches for our qualifications (my wife and I need to work in the same area but we have different qualifications ... so its complicated)
Original Criminal Record Check
University Transcripts
Copies of our Passports
The record checks and the transcripts cost us money. Is it reasonable to ask for an interview before we provide these? If we sent every school and recruitment company these documents it would cost us a fortune! Also, I'm not sure if we are comfortable sending copies of our passports until later in the process for security reasons. I get that they want to make sure we are legally allowed to work in Korea before they consider us. Any thoughts?
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OK... cart and horse....
You need them = yes.
THEY want/need SCANS of said documents to prove that you are actually ready and able to apply for jobs and not just one more of several thousand tire kickers who will soon finish school and have an itch to travel but are months away from actually having their documentation ready.
You send (by e-mail) your resume, scans of: passport information page, CBC and degree (proof that you can legally work and are ready to travel).
If you are not comfortable doing it that way then be prepared to stay home because you are unlikely to get a job abroad without it.
You DO NOT send the hard copies of your documents until you have contract in hand and are ready to sign on the dotted line.
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K1020
Joined: 20 Jun 2010
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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While a touch off topic this might help.
Check out these links to skip the recruitment rigmarole and get your applications to the same agencies that your recruiter will send them to.
http://www.epik.go.kr./
Applications --> Procedures
or for Seoul:
http://etis.sen.go.kr/custom/custom.do?dcpNo=12644
Applications --> Process/ Required documents
Even if you are going through an agency this is a pretty straight forward rundown of the structure of the process (ie. when your recruiter NEEDS your documents) -keep in mind that you should be procuring them now in any case so when there is an offer you want you don't have to wait.
I wouldn't send anything official until you send the signed contract and the school is applying for a visa issuance number; I believe that is what happened in my case.
cheers!! |
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