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[emiliabedilia]

I'm considering using this recruitor to get a job in Korea, but there really is no evidence of anyone using them on the internet, no testimonials or even mention on this site or ANYTHING.

I'm female and take my safety pretty seriously. I'd just like to know if anyone has heard of them or used them.

Thanks

[excitinghead]

Hi, I remember posting in a thread about them, unfortunately my computer won't let me copy the link to paste here for some reason. So instead, put my name in "Search for Author" then scroll down and you'll see the People Recruit thread.

In that thread, one guy didn't like them but most of the other posters were pretty positive.

Enjoy!

[TheUrbanMyth]

[excitinghead]

"Actually in that thread, three people didn't like them. I was one of them. Like I said, I'd stay well clear of them. They usually recruit for hakwons that have a problem retaining teachers. A newbie might think it is a good deal, but if you have experience you can usually do much better"

Well, if we're picking straws, a closer look shows that in any thread about People Recruit out of the people who have actually used them everyone except you and natemk absolutely loves them! In addition, there's only 2(!) small threads about them as far as I know, and as we all know, the less said about a recruiter on eslcafe usually means the better...unfortunately teachers with good experiences with recruiters are usually too busy having a good time to bother with eslcafe again.

I'm sorry that you had a bad experience with them, but that doesn't mean "they usually recruit for hakwons that have a problem retaining teachers". How would you know? Did you hack into their computer and download their evil master plan?

[TheUrbanMyth]

[blizzard_jdf]

I used People Recruit at the end of last year. They are helpful and informative. They do communicate. Howvever they are EXTREMELY PUSHY. They really do get on your nerves after a while.

To cut a long story short I found my school through them. Little did People Recruuit know that the school had 3 runaway teachers in 1 year. When things got tough they did try and negotiate with my school. With jobs here it just seems to be random luck, so I don't know. PM me if you want to know more.

Best advice I can give is to ask for the emails of THREE teachers who have FINISHED their contracts. Not justa current teacher.

[SeoulMan6]

I used People Recruit a couple of years ago. Wonny and Heyya are still there I think. They were helpful and nice. I'd use them again.

[excitinghead]

I'm having a bad time with the search function today...in the end I just typed "peoplerecruit" in and got 6 or 7 threads or so. Think there's a few more out there somewhere, but I give up. In the meantime, let's see what that third person (sheba) said that we were talking about:

"I looked into People Recruit as well, unfortunately they replied saying they basically only place Americans... the said theyd contact me if anything came up that was available, but I never did hear from them again"

...and then, when it turns out that only placing Americans was a miscommunication...

"They lied about only scouting Americans. Wow, they sound great!"

Sounds like a grand total of two emails, one to PR and one back, and that's it. Hardly counts as not liking them, let alone being placed in a bad school by them. Turns out most 'negative' comments about them in other threads are usually no more than "I called, I didn't hear back", which doesn't really say anything bad, or good, or anything about them at all really.

I just find threads about peoplerecruit bemusing, I've been following them since I noticed someone raving about them and couldn't understand how those same people would get painted as such fiends by others. So I don't take anyone's word for it without more details...for instance, I still can't figure out in one of the other threads how peoplerecruit calling to help natemk when he had problems with his hagwan, somehow made them worse(!??), and this case, UrbanMyth, what do you mean exactly by

"Every hakwon they took me to, (7 in total) required (1) shared housing (2) working on some Saturdays (3) phone teaching. (4) no pension enrollment"

...did they drive you to the hagwons? Or do you really mean they just sent you the details of the jobs? If the latter, it doesn't really sound too onerous to me. And any recruitors, not just in ESL, that don't listen to my conditions and send me crappy jobs get ignored or hung-up on after the 3rd time. Why didn't you?

So, I still can't see how you can say "They usually recruit for hakwons that have a problem retaining teachers". What do you base that on? Were ALL 7 hagwans they told about you about blacklisted or something? That's quite an acheivement for a recruiter, even if they were the worst in Korea!

I recommend people read Atkinson 's posts on peoplerecruit, they seem pretty balanced, and he has some good advice about recruiters in general.

[TheUrbanMyth]