Does anyone have any information on the RISE Language School in Songdo? I got an offer from them but was wondering if anyone has worked from them or heard anything about them?
I have not settled for it yet, I’m getting in a zoom call with the recruiter very soon to ask more questions regarding the school and to see if they have more options to compare!
Hi all, I'm really puzzled as to why I can't find much information on this school!
KICS - Korean International Christian School
From what I know they have a Seocho campus and another in Incheon (founded in 2004?).
Can anyone currently working there or have worked there give insight on what the working environment is like? It looks like the majority of students are Korean nationals and there are more Korean teachers than there are foreigners, is this true?
I'm curious if living conditions are good like is there a lot of overtime or even mistreatment (in pay, housing, workload) towards foreign teachers?
Is it an accredited international school or just another hagwon?
Thanks for any insight!
I'm a former student of these hagwons from 2002-2008, now living in the US and in my 30s. Came across here and surprised pay today is still very low compared to what you would find in the US - any job really. Why do u work at hagwons?
I have a potential interview here - Wyatt Preparatory Institute. I can’t find anything in the subreddit. Has anybody heard of them and have any experience with them?
I've reached out to 20 recruiters so I'm praying I get at least one school.
I'm going to make more posts as I get more schools.
I'm anxious of getting a bad school so please any information is helpful.
I heard Poly is not good. I see mixed reviews of Francis Parker.
Some of these are on both blacklist and greenlist.
More info : Poly Seoul(Wirye), Biba Kids Academy Gwangjin-gu, Seoul or Seongdong-gu, Seoul,
DFI (Donggrami Fastrackids International) Sadang-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, Francis Parker Collegiate Sungdong campus Seongdong-gu, Plato Academy Seodaemun-gu.
Yes another Poly School.
I had an online interview with this franchise, not actually knowing I was interviewing with a Poly until the 'Director' stated so (recruiter/middleman forwarded job). This was for a specific working time, which I had been very clear on from the beginning; was the main reason for my interest. Now I didn't say this in the interview, but it was advertised on these hours, and I had specifically given my reasons for why they suited me. Get to the interview and I ask some questions, one of which is to clarify what the schedule might look like on a regular day for me.
I am then asked if I could do extra on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. That would essentially be increasing my hours by an unagreed 30%.... hmmm. I say perhaps Mondays, and it was my intention to offer this perhaps down the line, but not the others due to my prior commitments specified already.
From this point on he vividly appears to lose interest, actually looking at his phone, texting, and leaving me in silence. He asks if I have any other questions, hardly looking up from his gormless face, and I ask if there's anything I can clear up or resolve from my end. He then looks at his screen and says something like 'oh yeah, I forgot to ask this question...' which was something inane that I now cannot even recall. To be honest, I just laughed at the end of it, and said bye. For the most part I read it as his weak experience in interviewing. At the beginning he was a bit all over the place and just threw in some real basic boring questions like 'where do you see yourself in 5 years' kind of thing. I had a minor hope I might get accepted, since I am desperate (why else would I subject myself to such riddicule).
But then I receive a response some 24 hours later that I was not successful on the grounds that I wouldn't do these extra shifts. I mean, what a complete waste of our time, due to their own lack of transparency. Imagine working there. That was supposed to be their most charming side.