Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Derrek]

Oh fun, here's a great business idea!

Let's make our own little "club" where we all act as recruiters for each other and split the money we make from placing each other.

Hilarious!

[Yu_Bum_suk]

We'd know a lot more about immigration procedure, to be sure.

[Grotto]

unfortunately I dont have the heart to accept money for selling someone to an unscrupulous hogwan owner. I would feel like I had an obligation to help out when things invariable go wrong. Not worth the grand IMHO

[Derrek]

Come-on, Grotto!

You're running back home with no job. (not that that won't be me some day)

It would be perfect for you, had you decided to stay!

[Bunnymonster]

Now if we could get enough people into this club to effect the recruiting conditions in Korea that could be really powerful, instead of "so you want to pay 1.8 and have him work saturdays, I think I can perusade someone..." directors will hear "Umm, no thats completely unacceptable we won't be able to find you anyone"

But then again thats probably not going to happen....................

[Derrek]

Hahha.. well, I guess that a lot of Unions are sort of like their own recruiting company. Interesting.

[buddy bradley]

[Homer]

[Gunnery Sergeant Hartman]

[dbee]

this may not be a bad idea, I just got done by a recruiter here ... AGAIN !!!!

And I've been thinking about doing something myself.

It would be cool if the people who have been around a while and know the score actually did something about the ESL industry here instead of just moaning about it ad infinitim ...

[chronicpride]

If the motivation to do this is to counter bad schools and bad recruiters, then you have a very rude awakening coming regarding the prevalence of headaches and stress placed on you from teachers. When I was in this racket, I'd say 70% of the reasons why I got out of it, was because of being screwed and/or let down by teachers. Consider yourself warned.

[Hyalucent]

Perhaps it could come down to brand awareness. Like an ISO 9001 type recruiting program. Stringent qualifications and background checks to be placed as a teacher. Hagwons personally inspected by teachers combined with references. Charge both application fees and placement fees. If it runs short of teacher candidates, all the better as it could be marketed to increase demand. Premium service, premium quality, premium price. Include a professional advertising campaign directed at the hagwon owners association and parents-- contra'd with translation work or sponsorship of internal resources.

There are a million and one things that could make it fail but just as many things that may not have been tried.

[bosintang]

It seems to me that from the foreign teachers side what is needed in Korea is centralised hiring. Small and medium-sized hagwons and schools, which means virtually all of them, don't have the proper resources and/or know-how for proper recruitment and maintainance of foreign teachers.

To further Hyaculent's idea, why not only just recruit, but actually hire the foreign teachers and dispatch them to hagwons, schools, or wherever. Both schools and teachers could benefit if there was an intermediate who handled the recruitment, contracts, visas, and arbitration.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[Hyalucent]