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RESUME TIPS (AT Process - Step 2)

  • Proofread your resume!  Grammatical mistakes and spelling errors can severely limit your opportunities
  • Your resume should have a professional layout and appearance (resumes longer than one page are completely acceptable).
  • Make sure your resume can be opened in Microsoft Word
  • Your resume should be focused on attaining an English Teaching Position
  • Include all of your teaching experience professional and non-professional
  • Korean employers are interested in experiences that demonstrate your ability to interact with children/youth/adults.  Even if you do not have any professional teaching experience or certificates, you most likely have done some things that demonstrate your ability to work with children or adults to the employer of potential schools.
  • Don’t forget things like: being a camp counselor, baby sitting, working with troubled youth, teaching Sunday school, volunteering at an orphanage, working with the disabled etc.

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PICTURE TIPS (AT Process - Step 2)

  • Make sure that you aren't wearing a hat
  • No one else should be in the photo but you
  • There shouldn't be any alchohol or cigarettes in the picture
  • Professional Attire
  • Look at these examples
  • Korean directors require a photo of the applicant to be sent alongside the resume. Taking these simple tips will make a good impression on the schools, and possibly your future employer.

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PHONE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (AT Process - Step 3)

Personal Information and Characteristics
  • Describe two of your strong qualities or attributes.
  • How do you adjust to unfamiliar or new situations?
  • What would someone close to you criticize about you?
  • Give an example of how you work in a team environment?
  • What is your purpose for pursuing a position in South Korea?
Teaching Experience
  • Describe one previous experience you’ve had that will add to your ability as a teacher.
  • In your opinion, what constitutes a good teacher?
Job Expectation
  • What is important about your place of employment in Korea?
  • In your mind, what do you feel a good working situation would look like?
Living in Korea
  • What will make your living situation most comfortable in South Korea?
  • What problems do you foresee when you think about living in a foreign environment?
  • Are you opposed to living in a one room apartment?
  • Is it important that you live near other foreigners?
  • Are you interested in Korean culture?  If yes, what aspects?

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QUESTIONS TO ASK CURRENT FOREIGN TEACHERS (AT Process - Step 9)

  1. Will the director read this, or are they in the room when I am speaking to you?
  2. What is your position at the school?
  3. How long have you worked there?
  4. How is the relationship between the foreign teachers and the management of this school? 
  5. Are most of the foreign teachers happy?
  6.  Have you had any problems with this school? If yes, what sort of problems have you had?
  7.  Does the school pay you on time?
  8. Have you ever had any other problems with payment?
  9.  Are you satisfied with the working hours and flow of the workday?
  10.  What is your housing like? 
  11. How do you like the area in which you live and teach?
  12. Would you recommend this job to one of your friends?
  13. Is there any other information you think I should know about the school?

 

  
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