The Songyuan Foreign Studies College is NOT, I repeat NOT a school where you will wish to work. The Headmaster, Zhang Jiajun, or more simplly Bill Zhang is a [edited] liar and a manipulator. He devotes all of his time to 'dividing' his employees, by pitting one against another one, so that no one will get along with each other and team up against him......it is his greatest fear that this will happen. So, instead of treating people decently in the first place, he exerts an enormous amount of time, energy and effort in playing games with people.

If you are from the US and require a Foreign Expert Certificate, he will obtain the certificate on your behalf, but then keep it and will not let the foreign teacher have it. So, when you leave at the end of your contract and you need the certificate, he can demand money from you in order to give the certificate to you. I guess he must be really hard up for cash.

The apartments that he provides have broken furniture in them and if you want to have something fixed, even if you did not break it, he will send his goon henchman Mr. Ding to look at the issue and then tell you if you want the problem fixed, it will cost YOU money to repair it. Again, I guess he does not have the money for decent furnishing or simple repairs to the flats he rents for his teachers.

He seldom gives the salary on time. In 12 month period, he paid the salary late EIGHT MONTHS. The pay date is the 10th, and sometimes, it would only be a day or two late, but one month, the salary was given out on the 17th of the month, and in another month, it was paid on the 23rd of the month. This was done because one foreign teacher that Bill did not like, was bugging the foreign teacher's supervisor about the salary and when this was shared with Bill, his response was "None of the teachers will be paid! They will all have to wait until after the holiday!" This is another of Bill's ploys to further divide teachers.

When some of the Chinese teachers would quit because they had other jobs, Bill would get angry and tell them that he was going to sue them.....FOR. GETTTING. ANOTHER. JOB.

So, if you like to be paid on time and treated with a modicum of decency and respect, I strongly suggest completely by-passing Songyuan Foreign Studies College and Zhang JiaJun, as he has no concept of what respect and deceny are, and I strongly suspect that his finances are in a complete mess and he has difficulty meeting his monthly payroll. If however, you don't care about these things, go ahead and apply to this place and you will no doubt be able to secure a post without haste.