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[Demophobe]

You don't have much to bargain with, mate. Perhaps you are Achillies, but they think about the bottom line....money. You are a novice with zero experience and therefore you will be paid 2.0 . Try it if you like, but looks are only important as far as getting a job. They aren't looking for a gigolo. How do you suppose being so gorgeous would help? Getting a bunch of women 20~ 25 yrs old into the hagwon? Or attention-starved married women?

Pretty funny to tell them "I want 2.1 because I am good-looking".

Dial-tone ensues.

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[Juggertha]

I think looks DO count. Now, what they count for is a different matter. I've seen directors look at two application and pick the better looking one simply because they "felt better about it".

But when it comes to getting mroe money, i'd doubt it. You might get a job easier but thats it IMO.

Good luck with it though.

[Gollum]

Where do you come from?

Someone with an accent from Canada, for example, if often more marketable than an Aussie with an education degree and a bad accent Koreans find undesirable.

Right or wrong, that's the truth.

[mindmetoo]

[crazylemongirl]

First up, if you're looking at places purely on the basis of money, then chances are you're oging to get screwed. There are far more important things to worry about than whether you're getting an extra 100k in the bank.

Secondly, a lot schools prefer to hire women. My current gig won't hire young single men if they can avoid it, and my last school wouldn't hire males either.

Third if you don't hold an american or canadain passport you're accent isn't as deseriable which is major turn off to a lot of bosses.

Also given the state of the market at the moment in a lot of places having a nice face might get you in the door but if you start making unreasonable demands they'll move on to the next 20 something grad as it's not like there isn't a shortage of them here.

[Demophobe]

[CanadaCommando]

Dude, I know that everyone else has already jumped on ya in this thread, but I can't resist.

There are thousands of us ESL teachers out there-Do ya really think you're so much better looking than the rest of us that ya deserve more?!

The others are right. Concentrating on all the wrong things. Remember that the all significant 2.1 is just an extra hundred bucks a month. Usually, the jobs that offer that expect quite a bit for a teacher. Look for good schedules, locations, and talk to other teachers first. If ya get a bad gig, you'll drink away far more than that .1...

Of course, being as hot as you are, you could just get some of the girls here to buy you some drinks...

[Rather_Dashing]

If you're good looking, you'll have an easier time finding privates to teach, I think. But that's about it

[Ilsanman]

I think it matters a little bit, but its unlikely you will get that much pay.

Do you have some other qualifications? TESOL cert or Masters?

[dull artist]

My god. Dude, I've read some of your other posts where it's obvious that your grasp of the language (and your total immaturity) leads me to believe that you're coming to 'teach' for all the wrong reasons. I would think hard about what you really want to do in this country before you come here to rape it.

[chronicpride]

I think the OP may have read a recent post of mine about headshots and making yourself more marketable/presentable, to a culture and industry that puts a greater emphasis on that, than back home. To reiterate, your looks and marketability of having a good professional shot done of you for marketing yourself, will open up more doors and get more attention. If done right and you do have the looks and it is reflected in your photo, then you will have a lot of emails in your inbox.

The benefit is that they will take you over the 30 other candidates that they have, if no one else looks the part as well as you. But, a school will NOT hire someone for, say, 2.2, who is attractive, if they know that they can get another avg looking joe to sign for 2.0.

Now, if you were a hot North American women in Seoul, have good experience in country, speaks good Korean, and knows who to market and represent yourself, you will be pulling in 4-8 mil/mnth, if networked properly. But that's not hagwon stuff that I'm talking about.

[crazylemongirl]

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