Video On-line Part-time Jobs B2Corea

You can read the post at Dave’s ESL Cafe in its entirety here. I do post the majority of it because this grates on my last nerve.

The whole posting reeks of being a start-up company that doesn’t know what they are doing. Let’s take a look to see why.

Aside from the hokey rhetorical questions at the beginning, the job – which means you, the teacher, don’t start getting paid until – April. April! That’s seven months of waiting to begin, and that’s being generous not counting the last three weeks of September.

The salary of 1.2 million Korean Won/ approximately $1,056 is to bait the teacher into applying for this job. In order to get that much money, a teacher must work 25 classes that are each 50 minutes long to get paid $13 for each contact hour. However, the students who take online classes have very little time in which to do so. Strictly speaking, if students even choose to take online classes at all.

Younger students go to Hakwons, or onsite educational institutes, to experience face-to-face interaction with native speakers. Their parents pay the money, so the parents make the choice where their child goes. There are benefits to blended learning, which includes online components, but if given the choice, parents will choose the onsite, face-to-face interaction of the Hakwon. Most importantly, if the kid is at a Hakwon, little Sun Woo is not in the house; it gives the parents a break from being parents. Like day care in a way.

Older students go to university or work. Studying and preparing for exams is a full-time job. And for those workers, they don't have as much time either. Koreans have an incredible (yet culturally mandated, as it would seem) work ethic of putting in 60 hours a week. If their boss is in the office, they don’t go home until Big Boss goes home. So that leaves little extra time for workers to study online. However, for one hour three times a week, it is feasible. Just getting enough students to equal out to 25 contact hours a week is a stretch.

Yet, going back to the problem of your, the teacher’s, salary. 25 contact hours is a lot for an onsite institution to offer its teachers. 25 contact hours on offer here by a NEW online ESL start-up company is going to be like climbing up Mount Everest without legs. Maybe not impossible, as a nice little Sherpa could have the will of Zeus and drag your sorry behind up the mountain, but I would not count on it. Don’t let this little carrot dangled in front of you obscure your logic.

As an aside…what are you and a student going to accomplish in a 15 minute class? I think this payment scheme was generated by a newly minted Economics undergraduate who just likes to crunch numbers and be entirely ignorant about the logistics of trying to introduce, teach and then review a lesson in that amount of time.

The Deduction Section is preposterous.

Over-sea transaction fee is for a wire transfer. 10% off your total payment if you request cash. And on top of all that, income tax if you are living and working in Korea.

B2Corea got the hiring steps all so, ever so ridiculously, wrong. You interview, go through 1-2 hour training, which to think that the software this company has is so complex and comprehensive that it necessitates 2 hours is retarded, do a trial lesson and then, only then, does B2Corea make a decision whether to hire you or kick you to the curb. It’s bonkers! A good company should: after the interview, decide to hire the teacher. That’s it! Don’t waste anyone’s time with training someone and a trial lesson.

Overall, B2Corea needs to rethink its business strategy. The amateurish-ness is so ungodly offensive, it reeks of Kimchi and Soju.

Don’t waste your time; research other jobs.

PS I hate when 'companies' have gmail addresses. If they were legit, they would have a website with a .com email address.