Shane English Schools - Teachers needed in Vietnam

Teachers Wanted

Positions available for full-time and part-time native speaking English teachers from the autumn of 2009 to work at our school and at various kindergartens throughout Ho Chi Minh City. Candidates for these positions should have a desire to work with a variety of ages and abilities including pre-school children. We offer:

* Full academic support

* Structured curriculums

* Western management

* Training in "Teaching English to Young Learners"

* Transfers within Saxoncourt Group (e.g. Japan , Taiwan , China , Poland and others)

Previous EFL experience is not necessary, but candidates should hold a TEFL certificate such as CELTA.

E-mail your CV to Director of Study at dos@shanevn.com
Positions are also available at our schools in Japan , Taiwan & China . If you are based in Vietnam we can interview you for these positions in Ho Chi Minh City.

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27 of 34 people found this review helpful
Do not work for Shane Vietnam!

To be honest, there were some benefits working for Shane Vietnam. The local Vietnamese staff are friendly and helpful, and the children in the classes are pleasant and fun to teach. However, I had so many problems working for them that you really should just avoid this school altogether.
Firstly, their rate of pay is lower than the average for working in HCMC. The hours are incredibly unreliable and change from week to week, and whatever hours they promise you, you will lose a whole days worth of wages a month due to them trying to cut costs and having a Vietnamese teacher take your lessons once every month. This doesn't sound like much but firstly, as I said, your hours are not steady throughout the year anyway, and secondly, from my experience, no other English Centre uses this policy this way (some share with Vietnamese teachers, but no other school causes the teacher to lose out from it).
The main thing that is terrible about working at Shane is the higher-ups don't give a flying f*** about their employees or really the children. Everything is money to them, and if you can spread out an hours worth of lessons to cover two two hour lessons, then so be it, you get more money from the students that way. They have limited resources and there's no sign of improvement. Also, when a teacher discovered that one of the children might be suffering from abuse, the Dos chose to turn a blind eye, because upsetting the parents would mean upsetting the payer.
Also, they treat their teachers abominably. When I decided to move on to another school, they docked my whole last month and a half's pay-check because apparently I owed them money from being recruited from the UK (I didn't receive a dime when I was recruited, they apparently paid their sister company SaxonCourt for me, and then I was supposed to pay for my liberty - situation sound familiar?) and because they press-ganged me into taking their medical insurance. Upon leaving, my Dos informed me that because they were absorbing my last pay check, I was allowed to keep my medical insurance that was paid up-front for the coming year. Because of this, I decided not to make a fuss, and even carried on working for a further two weeks so not to leave them without a teacher even though I knew I was not getting paid. Since then it turns out, that they have decided to cancel the medical insurance, even though they cannot get any of the money back from it, and despite the fact that I paid for it. This is just a vindictive and horrible thing to do, and the question is, would you want to work for a company who is prepared to screw you over just because the higher-ups are petty, dreadful excuses for human beings?
I would hope your answer was no.

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Submitted by Anon4434 on 10/30/2012
Reviewer's Bio:    Female    |   Age: 19-24    |   HCMC    |    Experienced Traveler    |      

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Program Requirements: 

TEFL certification

TEFL Program: 
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Degree Level: 
Bachelors Degree

About Saxoncourt

About Saxoncourt Recruitment

Saxoncourt Recruitment was established in 1989 as a specialist English as a Foreign Language (EFL) recruitment agency.

Set up to provide teachers for Shane English Schools Japan, Saxoncourt has since grown to provide recruitment services to Shane English Schools (SES) in other countries (as SES has expanded) as well as acting as a recruitment consultancy for other schools throughout the world.

Since its foundation Saxoncourt has established a reputation for providing a friendly, professional service. Through Saxoncourt, teachers are able to find rewarding, secure jobs while employers can source reliable, good calibre, qualified teachers.

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