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rteazee



Joined: 22 Jul 2006
PostPosted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 5:36 pm    Post subject: are any of these schools good? Reply with quote
Hi,

I posted a message a few days ago about some schools that I got offered I job and the consensus was that they were not very good, so I am turning those schools down. I have a few other schools that I have been offered jobs and was hoping you guys could help me out. I am sorry about all this but I am new to this and want to make sure when I go that I have all my corners covered.

#1 Kim&Lee English School, located in Suwon, Korea
Kim n Lee Language School in Suwon(Yongtong new town)-Seoul Metro.
This was found through the recruiter: www.eduorange.com.

#2 Name of Institute : Saint Andrew school
Name of Employer : Mr. Kim
Location : Ilsan, Juyeop subway station (subway line#3) ,It takes 30minuts to seoul by subway.

#3 Seo-Jeon Institute in Busan

I am also in the process of dealing with 2 recruitment agnecies that I think are pretty reputable: ASK Now Inc. and "Teach Away"

any and all information would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks
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ttompatz



Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
PostPosted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:50 pm    Post subject: Re: are any of these schools good? Reply with quote
rteazee wrote:
Hi,

I posted a message a few days ago about some schools that I got offered I job and the consensus was that they were not very good, so I am turning those schools down. I have a few other schools that I have been offered jobs and was hoping you guys could help me out. I am sorry about all this but I am new to this and want to make sure when I go that I have all my corners covered.

#1 Kim&Lee English School, located in Suwon, Korea
Kim n Lee Language School in Suwon(Yongtong new town)-Seoul Metro.
This was found through the recruiter: www.eduorange.com.

#2 Name of Institute : Saint Andrew school
Name of Employer : Mr. Kim
Location : Ilsan, Juyeop subway station (subway line#3) ,It takes 30minuts to seoul by subway.

#3 Seo-Jeon Institute in Busan

I am also in the process of dealing with 2 recruitment agnecies that I think are pretty reputable: ASK Now Inc. and "Teach Away"

any and all information would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks


Stephen at eduorange found me my first hakwon job back in the spring of 2002. He picked me up at the airport, took me for dinner, took me to my apartment and then took care of introducing me to my employer the next day. I liked him and had no complaints.

I did like Yongtong when I lived there and Suwon is a nice city to live in. It has everything you could possibly want.

In regards to your schools. I can't speak specifically about any of them.


TALK to the teachers at the school. Talk to MORE than one. Get their e-mail addressses so you can ask questions when the boss is NOT looking over their shoulder. If the boss / recruiter is unable or unwilling to provide this, then move along to the next one.

No reference means trouble for a newbie. Either it is a bad school and cannot /will not provide a reference OR it is a new school.
new school + newbie teacher in Korea = receipe for disaster


Ask specific questions about:
a) Salary (on-time, deductions),
b) overtime (do they actually pay it?),
c) pension and medical (are they subscribed to the national plans or does the employer just avoid it?),
d) how many classes (per day/week/month), how long are the classes,
e) What is the class schedule like (blocks 2-9?, kindy/elementary 10-7? am/pm splits 6-9am and 6 - 10pm?),
f) housing - what is it really like, what do they live in?
g) vacations (when, how, blocks or scattered days?)
h) anything else that may be important to you in terms of quality of life or employment.

When YOU are satisfied that the conditions offered by a particular school are acceptable to you then sign the contract based on that.

Grand negotiations from abroad are for the most part useless.

They will either ignore you and move on to the next candidate because they see you as difficult to deal with.
OR
They will promise you the world to get your signature on the contract and your butt on the plane and then NOT deliver after you have arrived.
(this was my circumstance with Kangdong SLP for example).

That's my nickels worth of free advice on the subject of contracts.

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