Korea ESL Jobs

Everything you need to know
about Teaching English in Korea

How do I Check the Reputation of a Korea EFL ESL School Employer?

Is a contract worth the paper
it is written on?

It's important to check the reputation of your employer.  You can ask directly on ELT World and TESALL discussion boards, but they can't know every school in the world, so your best bet is ALWAYS to talk to the other foreign teachers at the school where you intend to work. 

Ask more than one teacher

Remember, everyone has a different experience and while one person loves the job and employer, others may not.  Ask more than one person.  Ask specifically what they like or don't like about the employer. 

Pay!

A few employers are well known for not paying on time, or even paying less than was originally agreed.  Be sure to check this issue with the current employees.  A friend of mine once worked for a school with these problems, but stayed for three years - knowing - from talking to others BEFORE taking the job, and over time seeing it happen, that the employer always made good on amounts owing - at the end of the contract.  Problem?  Yes, but she loved the job and her students - so she tolerated it, knowing the money due was coming.  And she was paid in full at the end of her employment there.  Good research lessened the worry.

Contracts

In some parts of the world, particularly Korea, contracts are looked at as "flexible" instruments - quite a different understanding from how we view them in the West.  Once again, ask the current employees if the contract is followed and if it is not, why and how it is violated.

This should not always be the kiss of death for a potential job.  Some small issues are not so important in the big picture if you really like a job, its location, what you will be doing and getting paid.

On the other hand . . .

Know that probably 98% of schools pay on time, treat their employees fairly and follow the contracts that they have signed.  And they have lots of happy employees.  You just don't hear about them.  It's the the unhappy people, who didn't do their research, who are busy spamming the Internet forums with their bad news.

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