Our Hiring Process
By filling out an application, prospective teachers can either be very specific about the kind of job they want, or they can indicate their willingness to take the first job that becomes available. Once we receive an application, we will only notify applicants of jobs that match their specified criteria. The application form must be filled out in full or the system will not accept it. All personal information submitted to TeachEnglishKorea will be held in the strictest confidence. See our Privacy Policy.
1) A Complete Resume: Resumes should show the entire work history of the applicant, and should be as detailed as possible to show what training and experience has been gained in each position. Particularly, teaching/tutoring experience should be highlighted, as well as any other experience the applicant has with children, no matter how small. Applicants should also detail any travel experiences they have had, especially extended stays overseas. Phone numbers must be included and current as PlanetESL will conduct an informal interview by phone to determine their suitability prior to submitting the applicant to prospective schools.
2) A Recent Photo: Applicants must be aware that their photos are very important to Korean employers as this is the first and often only impression they will get of them. Photos should represent how one would look if one were actually going in for a job interview. Photos should be a smiling headshot that show the face clearly.
If the applicant successfully passes this phone interview by TEK, they are then submitted a) to schools that have positions that match the applicants specified criteria, or b) to the specified employer in the event the applicant applied for a specific job. Applicants cannot always be matched with a position right away as jobs matching their specified criteria may not be immediately available. Applicants who are very open to location and student age can usually be place very quickly, while applicants who want a specific city or age group can take longer to place. Once the applicant has been matched to a school, employers usually decide within a day whether or not they want to proceed to a phone interview.
Applicants should understand that the phone interview will not be a long rigorous drill-session as it most often is when applying for a job in one’s home country. In most cases, the interviewer will only ask a couple questions about the teacher’s previous experience, and in many cases, may not even ask any pointed questions at all. Applicants need to be aware that by the time a school requests the interview, they have already learned most of what they need to know from the applicant’s resume and photograph, and that they are they are impressed enough by what they see to hire the applicant. More often than not, the interview is really just a formality to allow the teacher to ask any questions they may have about the school, and not the other way around. As long as the teacher speaks clearly and has a positive attitude, the job is usually already theirs.
Once interviews have been completed, the employer will most always inform us of their decision within a day or two, and we in turn inform the applicant of the results immediately.
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