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Omkara
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 Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 10:21 pm Post subject: Contact a former teacher before you took you Public job? |
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I know it's a must with a hagwan . . . but with a public school? Is it asking to much to send them scrambling for contact info?
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Boodleheimer
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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| do it, but take everything with a grain of salt. |
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Kim Jong Jordan
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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| there was no such option for me as I was the first waygookin to ever work at my school... |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:02 pm Post subject: Re: Contact a former teacher before you took you Public job? |
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| Omkara wrote: |
I know it's a must with a hagwan . . . but with a public school? Is it asking to much to send them scrambling for contact info?
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If you are a direct hire... then ask... but you may well be the first foreigner at the school and there may not have been anyone before you to ask.
That being said, I know that in my case I was able to meet and chat with both of my predecessors far away from the school and get the real skinny on things before I signed on the dotted line.
If you are with EPIK/GEPIK/SMOE/ETC you (and they) may not know for sure which school you are off to until a day or so before they ship you there from the provincial office.
Still it does not hurt to ask but not having a prior contact is not necessarily a big red flag like it would be with a hagwan.
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lulu144
Joined: 31 Aug 2006
Location: Gwangju!
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if only I knew then what I knew now.....
it was a huge mistake for me not doing it... |
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