#korvia

오늘 일기 쓰기 3월 26일

오늘은 3월 26일 일요일이에요. 3년 전 한국에서 미국으로 귀국했을 때 한국으로 돌아가고 싶다고 결심했어요. 올해 1월, 저는 한국에서 가르치는 직업을 찾기 위해 신청서를 작성하기 시작했어요. 코르비아라는 직업 대행사를 사용하고 있어요. 저는 이 회사를 사용하는 미국 여자를 알고 있어요. 그 여자는 한국에 사는 외국인 선생님의 생활에 대해 많은 조언을 해주었어요. 그래서 화요일에 신청서를 제출할 거에요. 그리고 올해 말 이전에 한국에 갈 수 있기를 바래요 . 저에게 행운을 빌어 주세요!

Want to teach English in Korea and don’t know where to start? Need some help? Look no further than Korvia! Korvia is a consulting company that works very closely with schools and private academies in South Korea and parts of China.  “Korvia Consulting is a recruiting company based in Seoul, South Korea that places native English speakers into Korean public and private schools as native English teachers. The company works with the Korean government, offices of education, commercial education franchises, as well as national public school teaching programs such as EPIK, GEPIK, and GOE.

Korvia screens and interviews interested applicants from South Korea and helps recommend them to various teaching programs and educational institutions around Korea. Since its inception in 2006, Korvia has recruited thousands of teachers as well as become official partners with various public school teaching programs around Korea. The company only recruits English teachers from United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa in accordance with South Korean visa regulation laws.

Korvia’s company values are that by recruiting passionate and educated teachers for “Korea” can make the overall education and enrich the lives of the children that will eventually shape the country.

but when i was reading things on different sites about tattoos, people where saying not to tell them if you have one if its coverable because then they wont hire you if you have one.

Stupid stupid stupid stupid. What’s wrong with me? I was so excited and prepared for this interview, or so I thought. It’s Sunday evening and I had my day all planned out: •Get eyebrows microbladed my by sister for her training class •Attend Texas Showdown staff meeting (TX Showdown is a fighting game tournament) •Go to Wild Cajun with Alex for some good ol’ crawfish •Go home and practice being interviewed As I’m saying my goodbyes to my sister after she made my eyebrows look FABULOUS, I received an email at 6:45 PM from my recruiter. It reads: “Dear Nastasha, We are scheduled to have an interview in 15 mins but I don’t see you on Skype. Have you added on ? If you would like to continue on job seeking with us, please do let me know. Regards,” HO-LY [BLEEPING] [BLEEP]! I converted 10am Korean Standard Time to 7PM US Central Time, but I didn’t convert it to the next day! I had post-it EVERYWHERE stating Monday at 7pm, when actuality it was SUNDAY @ 7. DAMMIT! I panicked! I almost cried! I asked my sister if she had a blouse or a nicer shirt–anything. I was dressed in Nike and Under Armour tank and compression pants with a Seahawks beanie on my head. The eff, Stasha. My sister handed me a sweater from the trunk of her car. I thanked her quickly and ran as fast I could back into the Westin Galleria where her training was being held. The time was 6:56pm. I ran back to the hallway of the 3rd floor. I had remembered seeing an empty table and some chairs. I pushed the table in front of this gigantic golden-framed mirror and pulled my Surface out of my purse (thank goodness that I always carry that thing with me). I plugged it into an outlet, turned it on and signed into Skype. “PASSWORD DOES NOT MATCH SKYPE ID” No. Not now. Don’t you do this to me, Skype! For the life of me, I had not remembered my Skype password. I email my interviewer and apologize. I tell her that I’m about to sign on and that I had miscalculated the time conversion. 7:01 comes around and I’m still messing around with verification and password changes to Skype. Finally. I fix it, get on, and add her. The time is 7:05pm. I’m late and completely mortified. My heart is racing as the Skype app dials her number. Her face appears. I greet her with a smile and “hello” and offer my apologies. NEXT BLOG POST: THE INTERVIEW…

It’s the first time I ever finished an interview at 6:15am!

My agent was super nice. She asked me questions just like the ones in a standard teaching job interview and she now comes as a local referee in Korea. She said she was pleased that I was thinking about EPIK because it’s the best program for me. She is going to guide me through the process step-by-step and help me make any alterations to my application that are needed. She will also help me obtain my visa if I’m successful and help me with a job at a private school if I’m not; but says she sees no reason why I wouldn’t be successful. She just said not to get my hopes set too high on Seoul because it’s very competitive.

I’m so glad Daisy is my recruiter and she’s reviewing everything first.

In grown up words, I passed my PPR test today! Two tests down, one more to go. Plus the last half of my classes/teaching modules obvsly - but then I have my teaching cert!