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Reality Check
By:Peter Rainham

I'm not sure if you were high when you wrote this or whether it's simply a crude plug for your own operation, but be advised that the 'service' provided by 90% of Chinese 'recruiters' out there is to dump gullible white faces into 3000RMB-5000RMB crap jobs, take a fee and run away before the ceiling caves in. I suspect you do pretty much the same thing (ie: the 'career'/salary aspect of things anyway) - I can't speak to your business ethics since I don't know you. As for China not being like the "Wild West," it's revealing that you would dispute this analogy because that's exactly what it's like - a free-for-all in which the recruitment sector is virtually - or even absolutely - ungoverned by any authority at all. Something like 40% of teachers in China at any one time are operating on non-work visas because the schools can't arrange them, and the authorities turn a blind eye - and you seriously claim this is not the Wild West? This may not be true of Beijing, that arid sprawl of Olympic window-dressing, but wake up - it's true everywhere else in this country.

Good luck with your business. But before you start advising people how to 'approach a recruiter' (Ha! Ha!), be advised that in China we are 'approached' by recruiters all the time, so unless you've got something special to offer (like real jobs with real salaries, which I very much doubt) stand in line with the other con-men and save the professional posturing for a country that pays enough so foreign teachers actually care.


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