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[sesl]

Hello all,

I am sorry if this is a dumb question, I have looked around for quite some time now and searched the forum but I can't find anything specifically about this.

If I wanted to apply directly to the Busan MOE how would I go about doing this? When people say 'contacting' directly is there a formal way of doing this or do you just inquire by e-mail? Or, is applying for advertised 'public school' positions in Busan what people refer to as 'applying directly'?

Thank you!

[Weigookin74]

Walk into the office and hand them a resume. Ttompatz suggested before giving a bi-lingual resume. But, you could just seek out the supervisor for English education. Dress your Sunday best, have a good job photo, and hand in a resume to that supervisor. I guess I'd try it, but there are recruiters who recruit direct for the Busan office. If you are already a public school worker and are well known or well regarded by your POE, get your POE english supervisor to call another POE supervisor. That could work too. (Though, I suspect most NETS probably don't have that option because of not being well known by their POE.)

[ttompatz]

[wanderkind]

[ttompatz]

[wanderkind]

I'm interested in working in Busan, but at the opposite end of the country currently, so personally applying isn't feasible for another week at least.

I found an email address in an old section for direct applications on the BMOE website, and submitted an introductory letter, and a few relevant doc scans there. However a couple days later I received an (actually quite cordial) email saying that they hire exclusively through EPIK now.

Not sure exactly what that means for this thread, just sharing my experience.

[mayorhaggar]

My S/O's current contract was not renewed due to budget woes so we needed to find her a new job. Seeing all the talk here about "just apply directly to the MOE/POE's, or to local school boards" we thought we could find her another public school job, but no dice. The province told her to just apply to EPIK because that's where all the PS jobs are, but it was too late for the Spring intake. Looked at other provinces and it would just lead back to EPIK or the other programs like JEPIK/GEPIK etc.

She's currently at a PS after-school program but the problem is that the counties all around us are all closing all of their after-school programs. She go that job through a recruiter. We looked for other similar programs in the province but didn't see any, and recruiters just came back with unsuitable hagwon jobs until they lost interest in her.

Only thing I ever did see was an after-school program in the provincial capital but it would have been impossible to apply because you had to come in in person to apply on a weekday (110% impossible if you currently have a Korean public school job) and do an interview on a weekday (also impossible). I guess they were looking for unemployed hobos on an F visa or something, even though they said E visas were welcome.

I imagine there's a scattering of non-EPIK PS jobs but they probably hire either far in advance like EPIK or at the last minute, or are filled by word of mouth. I don't think it's as easy as "just walk into the MOE in a nice suit."