紐洛琳英語學院高雄旗艦校_高雄市私立宏偉文理短期補習班

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At the very beginning of the interview, they tested my English proficiency. Since the position required the basic ability to tutor elementary-school-level English and communicate with foreign teachers, they told me after the test that I had a TOEIC score of 540. I then began interviewing with the director. During the interview, I spoke at length about work in the cram-school education industry, and we had a pleasant discussion about the compensation. They asked me to submit my thoughts on the interview afterward (I don’t understand—why would an interview require three pages of reflections?)

After that, they asked me to visit their Fengshan campus to observe their English teaching.

After observing the English instruction at your school,

Here comes the important part!!!!!!

The director asked me what I thought of their teaching. What kind of teaching insight could I have about a class that taught ABC vocabulary extensions and sang the ABC song? So I could only respond that the teaching was lively and that I liked the teaching environment there.

But what happened next was even more ridiculous!!!

I wanted to ask about the starting arrangements, but they actually told me to go home and think about what I thought of the job. Since having me watch an ABC lesson was so childish that I really had no thoughts to offer, I could only ask to observe a class for a slightly more advanced level.

So the next day, I spent another two or three hours observing a class, and I wrote a long, detailed feedback report.

They later notified me that I should return two days later to discuss the details of the job after the class.

The discussion included my professional skills, testing my ability to communicate in English, plans for attracting outside enrollment, and various other matters. We also discussed the salary again. They said they would notify me about arranging an internship at the Fengshan flagship!? campus before the end of August, with the official start date set for September 1.

And then it became even more absurd: this director actually asked me to visit various English cram schools as a spy and collect information about them and their class content (and told me, a graduate-school graduate, to pretend to be a father...).

I spent about two days completing the spy assignment and organizing the information into a report.

But the promised notice about the internship never arrived.

When I tried calling this director, he never answered, and I had no idea what he was busy with. One call was answered, but there was no sound for eight seconds = =

It was not until the day before elementary school started that I finally reached him, and he told me to hand out flyers.

Today, August 30, after I finished handing out flyers,

In the end, after everything from the interview to its conclusion, the result they gave me was that the Fengshan flagship!? campus had already selected a good candidate to come work at the Dongguang branch. If they hired me full-time as well, there would be too many people, so at most they could let me work part-time according to their staffing needs.

I really want to ask: Was writing this job posting just for the sake of it?

Mm.... This is the result I got after going through 20 days of interviews. The only money I actually received was the NT$200 for handing out flyers.

Maybe I was beaten out by someone with slightly better English scores than mine who was also slightly cheaper?

Or is there some darker side?? Haha

Actually, I’m sharing this ridiculous experience just to make everyone in Kaohsiung face the problems in Kaohsiung’s current employment environment.

I feel like an extremely cheap job seeker,

Even though my experience, résumé, education, and qualifications should have backed me up.

I also hope this can serve as a reference for students graduating and looking for work in Kaohsiung.

I feel that if people working in education are like this, then Taiwan’s next generation..... I really can’t imagine what it will be like.