The private ESL school industry here is a bit more complicated than just your usual office politics.
Let's look at my school.
My school is owned on paper by a guy who runs it independently but is also a shareholder in one of the student agencies here. Each of the owners of the schools owns a piece of this agency, and as such the agency promotes the schools which it owns. A good 20-30% of the tuition students pay go into the agency, and as such the school makes fuck all money, yet we are constantly harped on to work harder, promote the school, and retain students. Oh, and told that there's no money for prep or raises because the students don't want to pay more.
We are also often told to go and promote courses at agency meetings where we are not told who we will be meeting, what we will be doing, or how we will manage this without our commensurate materials. Nobody is kept in the loop with what will happen beyond this current week, hours fluctuate based on student volume, teacher "popularity" and the whims of the management.
I absolutely love being in the classroom. I hate that everything outside of it is in constant attack mode. Lack of communication and openness about procedures, standards, expectations and stability are what has driven me to finally escape.
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Originally Posted by Renthal
I got a marketing degree and thought my resume was the tits as I had modelled it from a variety of websites..
turned out it still sucked and I paid for an HR resume pro to rewrite me a couple of different resumes.. sales, marketing, etc.. might be worth trying?
I got better responses from potential employers..
do you have any buddies or other contacts that can get you in at their work?
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Any way I can find someone to unfuck my resume?
Tried tapping friends (so to speak) and have come up dry.