Hey everyone, I hope you're all well. Welcome back to another vlog with me seppy and you can see my reflection background That's so annoying. I'm just heading out to lunch with my friend Annabelle And I thought I would bring you guys along the last vlog you would have seen is the rego vlog I got back about three four days ago. I want to say But yeah, I'm just thought I bring you guys along because I'm doing some fun things these next few days before I go away again And yeah, it's always fun to bring you guys along. I'm just going to meet her at Greenberry in Primrose Hill I've never been before So I'm looking forward to it I need to redo my nails They've come out a bit and I'm like I said I'm going away next week so I want in like four days, so I want to have new nails for that otherwise with Extensions if any of you guys have had them they get really annoying if they're too too long like it helps your nails So I need to fix that if I show you guys my outfit. The lighting is actually really bad But I'm wearing this dress I got last year from top shop. This corset thing is like attached to it just with some white Giuseppe's some silver hoop earrings and my sunglasses I got last year from Monaco I'm hoping to get some new sunglasses when I go away in four days time I won't say where I'm going But it's kind of along the lines of Monaco Like it's not the same place, but it's along that same lines And I remember when I went there I saw these sunglasses and some Celine ones for my sister So I'm hoping I'll be able to get some new ones because I love these I'm wearing a green in Primera with Annabelle The big orange juice Annabelle is always on my Instagram story, so I feel like it's any time you guys saw her in the vlog She's so beautiful and she was just telling me she's working at Lorraine in I.D. New York What time do you have to wake up? Wake up? 10 past three in the morning Finish by 10am That'll be crazy Successful brands like this will catch up with you So I am sorry the sun is like on the car. Wait if I close the roof I wonder if that will help That's not better. I'm just gonna open it again so we just finished eating and Then we were walking around Primrose and we saw EJ shout out to you And we had a really nice time the weather is so beautiful right now in London according to my car It is 31 degrees bloody hell and yeah, it's so hot I don't know if that's just because my car is burning as well, but I'm gonna go home now and I Have so much to do I might get my nails done But I realized that tomorrow there's an Iran match and I'm going to watch it in Camden with all the Iranians that I know and I like I don't buy my nails ever but I like literally do this during the match because I'm nervous So I feel like if I get new nails that I'm just gonna do the same thing again So I'm gonna hold off till Tuesday and do my nails then because I don't want to have a bad manicure morning guys, so it's now the next day and I am getting ready to go to uni. I didn't bother to wear makeup and No, I haven't started uni yet. I actually just have a project Like a research project that they make everyone in third year like pick a project and do so I'm going in for that and I thought I'd bring you guys along my outfit for today is really simple London is so warm right now I just wanted something like comfortable to go to uni quickly and come back So I thought show you guys so I'm wearing this top from Zara It's from last year and it's actually kind of shrunk in the wash, but I don't really mind And it's just really loose and a comfortable material in the hot weather And then I'm wearing like cropped leggings. I cropped them myself. It was boiling. So I just got the scissors out now and cut them and Fortunately, they match up. Otherwise, I look stupid so my plan for today is just to go to uni and then I'm gonna come home and get ready because in the evening is the Iran match versus Portugal and a lot of friends A lot of my friends are all going to a place in Camden to watch the match So I have tickets to go as well and I'll be going with my cousin So I'm looking forward to that a lot and yeah, I'm just gonna come here and get ready for that as well So excited for today I don't know if you can see me because the Sun is like facing the opposite direction Yesterday after I went out with Annabelle, I was like in a bit of a Not good mood. I'm my friend. A lot of my friends are going through really like really unexpected difficult situations and Like all in the same week and I just feel like Being upset for them has really took its toll on me But then in the evening I went out with two of my friends and they literally made me feel So much better. I can't even explain to you guys like I had just the most chill time we literally just went to Shisha and Mia and Everyone's like We just went to Shisha and Mia, but honestly like if you're ever going through like a bad day Go hang out with like someone who has no clue about your bad day and Relax and you'll feel much better. But yeah, my train was 20 minutes delayed on my way in and now no 30 minutes late and now I'm running late, but Hopefully the consultant was busy on a board round anyway, but also I should probably say I absolutely love these. They're the skinny latte cup things you can get from like supermarkets they taste so good and they're like Coffee on the go So I watched the Iran match in Camden. I'll insert the clips now It was such a great vibe I can't even tell you guys and thank you to all the people who Came up to me and told me that they watched my videos or they liked my Insta Like there was so many people and I got so emotional because I didn't realize Like that I know people you get views and stuff, but you don't realize that they're actually People interested in watching you. You think sometimes it's just like your friends or whatever. So thank you guys so much It meant so much to me My plan for today as I'm going to the gym now, you'll see I'll try and get Andy to film some of our workout I broke my nail that I was gonna do them anyway So I'm probably gonna do my nails and then I have to do some shopping because I'm going away in two days time And I've literally got just my bikinis for this trip and nothing else So hopefully we'll round this up and we will be getting somewhere in my routine So I'm with Andy. He's got me on the same answer. So tell me what you thought of the Iran match Tired of two halves. Yeah very very good. We run done very very well Portugal was so nice I had I had so many Portuguese people come up and hug me after the match being like good game I love Portuguese people You've got to better eat and then if he puts that heart post Iran fruit It was good. You guys are so proud now. Well done. We're very very By the way, Andy's changed his Instagram username. He's so naughty, but I will put it on the screen and down below as well What we're gonna do Haha Good and from the bottom get the momentum up. Let's go three two one really small movements Get the knees down a little bit more. There you go. Perfect How's that Phil? Squats and walking lunges. We're gonna repeat it three times. They're back. They're back. They're back Nice and low with a jump squat. Get good into walking lunges hands on hips Drive knee down head up for me to push her up Good lovely. So remember guys. We repeat this three times. That's one set. I'm down a little bit for me. That's it Give me legs nice and straight. I have come to Southridge. I've just bought some dresses and clothes for my holiday from Victoria's Secret believe it or not But I don't have anything for the daytime. So we've come to look around in Southridge's it's 9 30 a shot of 10 All I need is like five-day outfit. Hopefully fingers crossed I can find it but I love renovated Southridge's mom say hi Mom your hair looks messy Look, now's Andy again So my room is a complete mess I got a lot of stuff yesterday when I was at Southridge's and And when I was at Victoria's Secret You'll definitely see all of these outfits on my Instagram my insta is pageant bunny and I also went to Super drive and I just got some of my skincare stuff. So a Simple day cream. I know it's like the age-resisting But they didn't have like a normal one and I just wanted a day cream and I really like the formula of this I have x-mer sensitive skin, but this is like a really nice Like not heavy cream and then I got some Tan oil, this is the Hawaiian Tropic in coconut and papaya and I got the his Bowen one. I don't know if that's how you pronounce it.  I got it in the shade light It's the instant anti-age by Maybelline. So it's the day before I'm going away I'm going to Cannes and I look really muggy because I just went just come back from the gym With Andy my trainer and we had another session. So he really killed it before my holiday So I think I'm gonna end the video here I hope you guys enjoyed this video and if you did make sure you give it a thumbs up and subscribe to be down Below so you can see the next vlog, which will be the Cannes holiday vlog with my friend April And I'm really looking forward to that trip I also do loads of other videos not just vlogs. So make sure you subscribe for that My socials will be linked down below, but my Instagram is Pajambani My Twitter is the Pajambani and my snap is Sepi Samai. Love you guys. See you next time. Bye


In the previous topics, we have talked about different components of pre-departure training. But what we are interested to know is that how much training is effective in this particular context. So this topic deals with the effectiveness of pre-departure training. The GMAC survey asked firms to indicate the value of cross-cultural preparation for expatriate success. We were interested to know how much the training, the cross-cultural training, it contributes towards the successful performance of expatriates and they measured it. They measured the cognitive, effective and experiential cross-cultural training and language training provided by the company or self-initiated. So they measured various different aspects of the training which was provided to people who are going on these expatriate assignments. What they found, the data shows that you can see the results of 2011 and 2009 Brookfield survey and on the column you can see that the value that was given to the pre-departure training, the effectiveness of the pre-departure training, there were four categories for that. It is of great value, it is of high value, it is of neutral value and of poor value. So the respondents which are the managers who are managing expatriates performance, in 2011 they said that 25% of the managers said that it is of great value. In 2009 19% said that it is of great value. The managers they gave a high value to this effectiveness of pre-departure training which is 64% and 60% in both the surveys. So generally we can see from this table that managers they gave a high value or great value to the effectiveness of pre-departure training in the performance of people who were sent on international assignments. So it means that it is something which is very much effective. However, still it is considered that the effectiveness is low. More effectiveness is required out of these programs. But there are certain reasons for the low effectiveness of these programs. They could be made more effective. What are the reasons of the low effectiveness? Number one is that there is limited data, as few organizations they systematically evaluate. They don't evaluate the return on investment of the training which is provided to these international assignees. Then there is a use of a mixture of different training methods. Different organizations they use different training methods for pre-departure training or training of their international assignees. So it is difficult to compare that okay which program or which method is more effective and therefore when data cannot be compared it cannot be collaborated then it is difficult to make a decision about the effectiveness of that particular mixed data. Then there is a large diversity of cultures that expatriates face. So it also depends on the culture in which the expatriates are going, how much that culture is receptive towards those expatriates and therefore training would be effective in a situation where the culture is also conducive. If the culture is not conducive, if the culture is not receptive, then the training may not be that effective. And then the interaction between the individual differences between expatriates and the work environment that they face. As every person is a different person and every person behaves in a different way. So because of these individual differences a performance of people in the expatriate role that varies from low to high. So these are the various different reasons because of which the effectiveness of the training programs is not that high but it is something which is considered to be of great value and it is something which is very much useful in making people adjusted to their international assignments.


It's Python on Hardware Time. Blanka-blanka-blanka. So I'm going to talk about some of the things in the world of Python on Hardware. And then I have something that's a little bit of a tangent, but I think it's a good example of some Python stuff going on. And then a little bit of a success story, and then a cautionary tale that maybe we can all work on. Wow, I feel like I'm just going to like. I'm going to have a whole movie in front of me. Yeah, it's going to be a little bit like that. It's part of the Marvel universe. So Circuit Python 6.2.0 was released. Released, released. I know we've been doing betas and betas and betas, but we're really done 6.2. I mean, we'll do a 6.21 if necessary, any of the bug fixes. But we're starting to work on seven. So a lot of stuff happened in six. We added RP2040 support. We did a lot of USB work. We added a lot more boards. A lot of graphic stuff happened. I mean, these are all the changes since beta 4. But overall, which are a lot of bug fixes, but overall, we have done a ton of work in six. And we're excited to do seven. Seven is going to have more M7 IMX support, probably also do a little bit more RP2040 stuff, and more. So thank you to all the contributors. I'm going to talk about how people are contributing in a second or something that someone tweeted. They got their first contribution to an open source project, accepted and merged back to the master branch, Driverbug Fixer Circuit Python Driver for the BNO005. Thank you. In every place that we release Circuit Python, we always thank all the contributors. Thank you so much. Thank you. Everybody, this is a very good, functional, healthy, open source community that is publishing a lot of software and taking in lots of contributions. So thanks, everybody, for making that happen. I'm going to talk about that in a second and how there are some good success stories in that. Because you always don't hear about the success stories. Don't forget, Bernard Reissummit, is this? Weekend. Well, it's Friday, which is kind of like a weekend. Early weekend. Scott's Deep Dive series, celebrating one year this week. Congratulations, Scott. So he's been doing these for one year. If you want to see the building of something like Circuit Python, which is going to be up to 200 boards soon. We have 196 boards. We're getting close. Over 300 libraries. If you want to see a lot of the smarts that went into this, check out Deep Dive every single week. And the cats. Yeah. The other thing is some emergent trends we're seeing, the circuit Python being able to show up as a USB drive. And it being so easy to do things like a keyboard and people having more access to things like PCB design software or something like Topico, which runs Circuit Python, or having all these keyboards that they've always wanted to build and being able to kind of put these together in lots of different ways. We're seeing tons and tons of keyboards. So I think with all of the work that you're doing now with getting more keyboard stuff into the shop, the ease of use for something like Circuit Python, and then the accessibility for all of the resources to figure out how to make this, and then being able to do it, there's a lot of people that making their own keyboards is going to be their very first project. It was very hard for them to do it before. Now it's going to be really easy. Now hold that thought, because not everyone likes things easy. But how? What does that mean? But we're seeing more keyboards ever in the entire, like for me starting Hackaday and covering stuff at Meg, I'm seeing more keyboard projects now that people who, this is like one of the first projects they're doing, publishing and getting out there and sharing with others. So it's kind of cool. So MacroPads more, also I think because of stream decks and stuff like that, people are using more than just a keyboard control. It's like everyone has a computer constantly. They want to make cool interface with them. So this is the Dazzler and GameBlueno circuit Python to create sprite animations. Those are really neat. How to use circuit Python with GPIO on a PC. That's the FT-202 thing. More MacroPads. MacroPads. MacroPads, MacroPads, MacroPads. This is the ambient temperature reactor orb, a Raspberry Pi Pico with MicroPython example, MicroPython 3D printed drawing robot example, a Pico CO2 based carrier board with display, a Pi keyboard that uses circuit Python. Keyboard keyboard. Yeah, so. Audio matrix, LEDs, cats. This is a circuit Python to produce audio with a meow bit and has a cat. If you want to see or experience the pulse of what's going on on MicroPython, check out the slides and all the notes from the Melbourne MicroPython. They've got great notes, a great community. We added, there's a book that just came out in French that's circuit Python. We added that to awesome circuit Python. So if you check out github.com, 4 slash 8 fruit, 4 slash awesome, that circuit Python, you could see all of the resources, boards, links, news articles, and more. We keep it on GitHub. Feel free to do a pull request if you find anything. Other odds and ends. We have a video that shows you how to use Feather 2040. This is someone else made it, but the new chip is out. So a lot of folks are exploring it. We have an oldie, but a goodie. These are circuit Python powered sneakers. So these are like the little NASX devil shoes. But this is like, what if you want to just use your existing shoes and like 3D print little Adafruit logo?  And you don't have to get a special edition 1 out of 666. You can just 3D print these yourself. Yeah. And this is flexible PCBs with circuit Python and a whole bunch more. Macro pads, macro pads, macro pads, Picas. Yeah. USB 32s 2s, and more. So, I love it. Yeah, I also wanted to mention, if you want to check out the Pico PyCorder, this is using the Pico and making a, it was just like first contact day for Star Trek. So you can check out this Raspberry PyPico running circuit Python for this Elkars-like interface. This is kind of neat. This is a mag tag, moon crescent bargex, so it shows the phases of the moon, and so much more. So I wanted to talk about two things. I'll get to the contributions and open source and how to get them. But I did want to mention something. So today was like, if you're into particle physics. You're into particle physics. Yeah, so the moon was spun around. And the standard model, we still might need new physics. We still might have new physics. There is mysterious particles out there. There's mysterious matter that we don't know about yet. And that was the news today. And I watched the video about this interesting possible discovery. Apparently you need a little bit more for it to be official discovery. It's like five sigma, then it's an discovery. But basically, an experiment from a long time ago showed that this wobbling particle wobbled a little bit more than maybe it should. So it's probably hitting these antiparticles as it runs around of what they are. Who knows? And there's a particle zoo at the moment that it is what it is. There's quantum mechanics. And then there's relativity. And we don't have something that works with gravity. So this is neat. And one of the things that I always like to figure out is what tools did they use? What tools did they use? A million years ago, I interviewed Brian Green, string theorist for Make. And I said, do y'all use instant message? And it was like 10 years ago now. And he's like, this is the first time someone ever asked me. I'm like, because it can't all be chalkboards. I want to know what are the tools you use every day? Right. They discord it. What's good with that? We've got gossip about particles. Like, how does it work out? So anyways, if you watch the video and I put it on our blog post about this, it's Python. They're using Jupyter Notebooks. This is the series of numbers that they wanted to get down to a certain amount of precision.  The numbers are just green, and there's pink, and there's blue, and they're. Yeah, but you can check it out on the video. It goes by pretty fast. But here's a Jupyter Notebook. And it's like. That's cool. It's a Python. Yeah, here it is. And this is how they're figuring out, based on the results from running this, based on the supercomputers that are popping out the numbers. I see, they're like, here's the theory, and here's what actually happened. And then it's like, four sigma, three sigma out, from a standard, the deviation of what they're expecting. Yeah. Oh, no. So there are many particles.  Because it looks like there's other mysterious things. Dark matter, dark energy, and this. So you got a lot of discovery ahead. Now, the thing that I was talking about before, which was, how are we doing this circuit Python thing? And the reason why circuit Python, and I think Python is working out, because everyone gets to contribute. Yes. So if you are interested in physics and science, at some point someone had to learn Python, and eventually they used it to interact with this particle accelerator, it's not some unknown language that only the particle physicists know. No, it's Python. And so when you start doing computer science, or if you start doing electronics, I think it's really intimidating. And this was like, when we see this type of tweet, we're just like, this is great. So this is the person tweeted, aspiring roboticist. That's kind of cool. That's their name. I bet they're interested in robotics. And their contribution is now part of a high-profile open-source project. It's merged in, and it's for circuit Python. And every single circuit Python release, we have tons of contributors, we have our core team, that's how we ultimately even hire people and do stuff. And we didn't seek this person out. They found that this community was really good and really accepting to beginners and no matter what their contribution is. So I normally don't do this, because I try to not only focus on the positive stuff, but all of us can collectively work on something. So this was a comment I saw, and I'm just gonna summarize it. This person basically said, the maker movement is lowering standards. The maker movement is making it so anyone who wants to put an LED on a bike can do it. And they're just interested in that hello world and that project, and they're not really learning anything. It's lowering standards. And I think this is one of the worst things that, maybe that wasn't their intention, but I think this is one of the worst things you can say online to someone. Yeah, because who's standards? Yeah. What standard is it? Who came up with the standard? Yeah, and what is about these people that are coming into this tech world that you don't like? Is there something specific about them? Like, what's wrong with them? What is it? So, you know, some people call this gatekeeping. I remember when you were posting on AVR Freaks like 15 years ago. And they did. 20 years ago, but yeah. Yeah, well, okay, 15 or 20 years ago. And these engineers with 50 years of experience, they saw your name, Lediata, and they're like, get out of here, lady. Just get out of here. Yeah, they were angry. I wouldn't contribute to their wiki. And I said, I don't like wikis. And I still don't like wikis. But they didn't like the idea that you were making electronics so much easier for people. Because that meant the face of electronics was gonna change. That meant different people were gonna come in. So when y'all see these things about standards are lower or more people are gonna get in, I know it hurts, because at first I was just like, I was angry. It's actually a little bit when people say, oh, it's a toy. I used to hate it, but I actually love it. Whenever you hear somebody say, oh, that's a toy, that's when alarm bells should be going off because that means that it's a disruptive technology. And anything that's a toy is the next generation of technology that you just don't understand. Yeah. So it's like when people are like, oh, it's a toy language, or this is like toy hardware, or like this whole scientific endeavor is a toy.  And that's what usually ends up being the disruptive technology that takes over from whatever is happening now. Right, like I remember the Raspberry Pi was a toy. Yeah. And now it's like half of industry uses it for single board computing. So I've seen this phrase used a lot. And a million years ago I wrote an article about Arduino and how it won in getting so many more people to get into electronics. And anything that came along later would be Arduino-like. And so I see this phrase used. So when we all see this, let's celebrate the successes, continue to get people in. But let's make sure, because this grows and it becomes dangerous and cancerous. And I'll tell you why. I've seen people and we've deleted this when they've tried to do this. Oh, MIT must have lowered the standards to let you in. We've gotten like crummy emails from kids. Yeah, that's true. So yeah, and so this is one of the things that people say and do. And then they're like, yeah, they did. Like I just totally cheated and lied and stole. Whatever makes you feel better. So, but this is the thing. What we wanna do. I still have nightmares about my hasty paper. What we wanna. It never ends, you know. What we wanna do is continue to do this, but as bad as it's painful as I saw that on another website that said the maker movement and all these Arduino things are lowering the standard for everyone. I knew that we're being successful. I knew the success is here. Because when they see that, they're seeing new people, different people from them, and it's freaking them out. Oh no, oh no, I'm not gonna have people like me only in engineering. And so this is, it's a good thing and we wanna move more towards this. Anyone can contribute and grow and do stuff. We all started out somewhere as a beginner. And if I can, I'm gonna try to go back and see if I can have this person see my note. I'm gonna say like, surely someone cared about you and wanted you to learn something when you were younger. Everyone was a beginner at one time. So don't say it's lowering standards when we're just getting more people in. This is, so anyways, one day I'll do a talk about helping to build good communities, but this idea that there are standards and some people should be allowed in and some people shouldn't is not the whole, that is not the way to get to a healthy open source community that contributes what you wanna be is in this spot where people can see their successes and maybe this will bring them on to an entire new career. And I'm happy to see that they didn't feel that there was some barrier or standards. They're just like, oh, I put the code out there, got merged in, yay. Anyways, so that's Python on hardware news this week. All right.


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Yeah um obviously when you want to teach English abroad and you start a new position you will sign a teaching contract right. If the school um if you have an interview and the school offers your job but they do not give you a contract that's a red flag right there right. So with any job back home the same any kind of job you start you will have a employment contract and that's the same for teaching English abroad it's just another employment and you will have a teaching contract but obviously because you are likely going to teach in a different country this contract will maybe look a little bit differently and you also need to watch out for a couple of different things than you would normally would have to watch out for in your own country. So that's what we're going to talk about today. I'm going to talk about 10 things that you need to watch out for. I'm also going to give you some bonus tips and like I said a checklist at the end detailing again all the different steps and things you need to look out for that you can then screenshot and refer back to for when you are applying. We have Amitava. Hey how are you doing? Oh thank you. How are you? I'm very good. You're looking nice. Thank you so much. I'm watching you live from Kolkata, India. It is Friday morning 7 a.m. Where are you from? South Korea. Yeah I live in a city sort of in the middle of South Korea. Natsul. So it's about an hour and 20 minutes from Seoul really like in the center of the country so it's really easy to get around and visit all the other amazing places around Korea so that's really exciting and I've been here since 2015. How is the weather in Kolkata? That sounds great and it's 7 a.m. Okay interesting. We have Min Min. Hi from Myanmar. How are you doing? Thank you so much for joining this live stream today. I appreciate it. How are you? Oh we have Leturk. Good morning. Greetings from the Philippines. Nice topic for today's live session. Yeah I was hoping you know that today's live session obviously every week I want to provide value and offer you with something to take away and learn something new and I think this is a very very very important topic especially now that more and more people are going abroad again and more and more teachers are getting hired again. Many teaching programs are picking back up and are hiring teachers so you need to know what to look out for before you sign a contract that is what we're going to talk about today. Awesome then without further ado I'm going to jump right into the first thing that you need to watch out for so let's have a look what that is. Oh and I'm going to make myself uh now it's fine but in just a minute I'm going to make myself smaller again so like you can see the examples that I'm showing you. So the first thing that you should look out for is is the contract written in English and easy to understand. So if you are going abroad to a different country to teach English obviously maybe most likely their official language is not English so if you receive a contract that is entirely only in their language and there's no English or another language if you understand on it then that should raise a red flag and you should not sign this contract because you need to understand what you are signing right. So let me show you an example of what it normally looks like. Yeah so this is a example page from a contract for a teaching position in China um and as you can see there is a Chinese part and then there's also a translated part in English so this is what it normally looks like um and what you should also look out for is due to translations of both languages makes sense. Now obviously you probably might not be fluent in this other language like Chinese or wherever you're going so it would be a good thing to either if you have a recruiter obviously have your recruiter have a look over it or if you have a friend already in this country who can look over it or you could also refer to a Facebook group for example there's a lot of Facebook groups like English teachers in Korea English teachers in China and so on and you could hop on there and maybe ask somebody share this contract maybe black out all the personal information and the school name um but maybe post this or contact somebody or ask around if somebody would have a look at your contract so that they can make sure that both translations make sense and are the same but this is really the first thing that you need to look out for hey is this contract written in a language that i also understand so typically it will look like this uh half English and half in the other language and then the next step from there would be to make sure that both translations both parts um are identical and make sense all right uh let me look at this comment Amitava says it is hot and warm in the morning was slightly pleasant with cool winds in the evening night and early morning in Kolkata do you live in Busan great no i do not live in Busan so Busan is all the way in the south actually um at the coast i live in a city called Cheongju which is near the next bigger city is Daejeon even though Cheongju is also the capital city of the province that i live in which is Chungbok Chungbok province so that's where i live okay so this is the first thing remember that um obviously kind of a no-brainer right never sign a contract that you don't understand if it's in a foreign language but sometimes you know we get overwhelmed we really want to take this teaching job and you just trust your employer oh yeah it's i'm sure it's fine and you just sign it um don't do that don't do that um you don't know the school you don't know the employer and um you know you're signing a contract so um really take your time and look over it and make sure you know it um it's up to par basically good so this is the first thing then we have number two is the name of the school the same as the one you were told during interviews and hasn't been spelled correctly um yeah so why should you care about that um a couple of weeks ago we had um the topic was teaching scams so some people or some scammers teffil t-sol scammers um teaching job scammers they will actually use the name of a very well known school and then try to scam you out of money for things like visa fees or flight ticket things um so sometimes they will just use a name of a school and so um usually what will happen in the process right you look for a job offer you contact them you send them your application then you are invited to an interview usually it's a skype interview video interview um and then if all parties agree they will send you the contract right so this is sort of like the third step um so during the interview or already in the job offer you will know the school's name right and then in the interview as well in your email communication they probably have like a logo somewhere so then when you get the contract you want to see you want to check and make sure that the name that they told you the name of the school was is the same on the contract as well so let me show you an example here typically um this is another example of a teacher contract you have the logo at the top so make sure is it the same name and also location if it's a very big chain um they will have schools like all over the country for example or all over the city so is it the same campus that you you know thought you were applying to or are they suddenly switching um you know some people do that too some schools they're like oh you know what actually you applied for the school in in Seoul but um okay and then they give you a contract for a school in Busan and try to place you there because maybe they just need someone now in Busan um and they try to just kind of sneakily do that without telling you because a lot of people they just want to go to Seoul because Seoul is the capital and it's you know it's it's Seoul um so that's one thing um so just you know make sure the logo is the same the name is the same the location of the campus is the same and also the logo does the logo match is it the same logo or is it suddenly a different logo that would raise a red flag um then also here where it says here too in the text where it says and so your name um an address and abc college so is that the same name also in the first paragraph of the school and then also the school's address so does the address match like the city is it the same at the same like area of the city where you initially apply to because sometimes like i said they maybe try to sneakily put you in a different school that you actually originally applied for without telling you um and you actually think oh i'm going there but then you arrive and then it's like oh no actually you're going to work at this campus so we kind of want to avoid these situations sometimes that can happen so again a little bit of a no-brainer but like i said when we get this teacher contract and we're so excited we just want to hop on the plane and go abroad and teach we might not think about these no-brainer super easy things to look out for but just you know take note and in most cases it is fine but you never know and you know just um check and if you spot a difference obviously you let them know you're like hey why is you know the name or the address different than what we initially said and then um they will clear things up hopefully and you can avoid maybe being placed in a place where you don't want to be and avoiding red flags here so that's the second thing the name and the address do they match the logo all of these important things second thing now we're moving on to the third thing which is is your name and passport number on the contract and are they correct so that's also very important that your name obviously full name some of us have a middle name some countries don't do middle names especially in Asia so you need to make sure that your full name is on it and also your nationality most often and passport number this is very important for visa purposes because you need your teaching contract in many many cases to then take this contract to the local embassy to receive your teaching visa or work visa for the country so this information needs to be 100 correct on the contract or you're going to have problems in receiving your visa so let's look at an example again this is for a job for example in korea and as you can see they're clearly sections where it says a citizen off and you need to input the correct country passport number there's a section for this to put this in here again citizenship because especially for korea this is very important information for english teachers because only people from seven recognized english-speaking countries at the moment can receive this teaching visa in korea and that's why that is very important so sometimes maybe an employer if you're not from one of those countries he might the employer really wants to hire you and might put the citizenship in here that's not actually your citizenship and a wrong passport number and try to maybe fool the authorities in giving you that visa mostly not because that doesn't really work at all anyway but just make sure that this information your personal information is correct because otherwise the process just might take longer you have to get another contract with the right information it just delays things they just want to avoid these things as early on as possible if that makes any sense do let me know at any time if there's something something not clear or if you have any additional questions just leave a comment that's totally fine and i'll help you to clear things up or if you had an experience signing a contract before and you want to add something a comment feel free to do so we're all here to learn something you know something new and share our experience that's how we can learn and how we can make better choices so to speak so yeah good so i think this was the third thing if i'm not mistaken so yeah really basic stuff until here right but like i said sometimes we just get overwhelmed and we do not pay attention to these details because we're so excited we just want to go and teach a rot but really sit down take your time looking through the contract and just making sure everything is in order it's very important um do it all right number four now it's getting a little bit more interesting is the salary the same as that promised to you in interviews or and is it written down correctly very important stuff right money you may have spoken about the salary in your interview or it was already mentioned um in the job offer initially so you just want to make sure in the contract that it's the same number not lower if it's higher obviously that would be great but if it's lower then we have a problem here right so make sure that the salary is the same in the contract and there's also some additional things so let's have a look um yeah so here this again is for korea so that's why it says 2.1 million won so that's the currency here so yeah when you work in korea you're actually receiving millions as a salary um so yeah it clearly says a monthly basic salary of 2.1 million won will be paid either for 120 teaching hours per month etc etc so there's a lot of details when it comes to the salary that's one thing and then also what you need to check is an overtime rate stated so as you can see you're working hours and we're actually going to talk about this in a minute your working hours are also mentioned so what if you what happens when you exceed this should you have to work additional hours is there an overtime compensation stated and it is so it should be stated like here the overtime compensation per hour 60 minutes is 26,001 so that's also very important to make sure that something like this is in there because sometimes things happen this actually happened at my school that i worked in sometimes we had to come in we had to stay longer we had to come in earlier we had to come in on the weekend sometimes to clean our classrooms for like teachers open open house or something the parents would come in on monday so we had to come in and clean um so then you would actually get overtime compensation so it's very important that this is in the contract because um yeah you don't want to work for free for anybody so salary stuff very important clearly check also working hours even though i'm going to mention that i may be right after this but um yeah just make sure and then also all these bonuses we're also going to talk about this so i'm not going to touch on that but um just the base salary obviously needs to be stated um along with the working hours overtime rate um yeah and just make sure that this figure the basic salary is the same as what you talked with your future employer previously oh what taryx says who pays taxes so yeah this depends on you know the country that you work in for example many countries in the middle east are actually tax-free so you don't pay any taxes on the salary um here in korea you do pay taxes and i'm sure it's 50 50 you and the employer 50 50 many countries do it like this so it depends on the country who pays the taxes not always the same good next number five are the start and end date written down correctly um teaching contracts are not indefinite they don't um they have like an end date usually it's one year or sometimes also two years or a little bit longer but um they will have an end date so this needs to be written down correctly um for visa purposes and also sometimes in the case of korea you do get a pension you do pay into the national pension scheme and then when you leave when your contract is over and you leave korea you get that money back so that's why start and end date they need to be written in the contract and they need to be correct obviously so you get those benefits so how does that look like for example here clearly period of employment there would be a section period of employment upon mutual agreement may be extended to two years so this information is also there if you want you can extend it to two years but the period of employment is march 1st to february 28th the following year so this really needs to be stated here and then again there's another um section down here again the employment will continue to february 28th unless terminated sooner as provided herein etc etc subject to following conditions we're also going to talk about termination in a bit um but yeah this is very important so if there is no date in your contract you really need to make sure that it's in there it's very important um because there's no date um yeah i mean you don't have really can it really do anything about that if there's no date written in it it doesn't really hold any ground this contract so date needs to be clearly stated and then you also need to make sure count that it's really this that it's really a full year um you know i mean it is here in this case but just make sure that it's really a year or two if you previously agreed on you're going to have a two-year contract make sure that it is a two-year contract and not a one-year contract etc also vice versa if you only want a one-year contract and then they're giving you a two-year contract but you only want to be there a year need to make sure you don't sign that or you know have another discussion about it so yeah good the sixth point here is everything with regards to your package written down and the same as previously agreed upon so package in this case means your benefit package right many countries along with your monthly salary you'll also get certain benefits like housing free housing or a housing state stipend you'll get like free airplane tickets round trip or one way or whatever you agree upon so is that in the contract it needs to be in the contract it doesn't yeah if it's not in the contract it doesn't exist it didn't happen so it needs to be in the contract whatever you talked about during your interview or whatever was stated in the job offer previously needs to be in the contract as well and match obviously what you are expecting so let's have a look here so this varies from contract to contract whatever sort of additional benefits and bonuses you receive right so for example there's a section here on housing where it says the employer shall provide the employee with a single housing chosen by the employer so you will get housing sometimes yeah here uh no not here but sometimes you also get a instead of housing if you don't want that if you want to look for your own apartment there'll be a housing stipend so then this monthly amount should also be stated in the contract a monthly stipend of 300,000 one 300 dollars etc um here other benefits named so the employee shall be entitled to a one time settlement allowance of 300,000 Korean won when he or she first begins the contract um then the employer shall provide 50 percent of the employee's medical insurance so that also needs to be stated in here and I think there's also a section on the pension scheme in Korea again this is an example of Korea um but again this will vary from country to country and whatever contract you are negotiating so in this section when it comes to benefits housing here you have a little bit more room sort of like you can negotiate a little bit during your interview stage of what you are expecting and what they can offer you right so this will vary this might even vary from employee or teacher to teacher in the same school not all teachers actually have the same contract sometimes some teachers have a higher salary a lower salary they get more benefits less benefits so it all depends on also your um your um strategy right your interview strategy and how well you can negotiate basically hey Storen very good advice you're doing thank you thank you i'm trying my best there's more to check um yeah so paid leave this is another important section um paid leave how many vacation days do you have a year very important this is a benefit of your contract also sick leave should be in the contract um and things like paid leave and sick leave they also vary from country to country because labor law is different in um different countries right so one country might have more paid leave than the other it really depends on where you're working and also sick leave and also medical insurance and all these other benefits so it really depends but yeah like i said here on the side check this very carefully right so that you know what you are entitled to what you are getting then whenever you are in the situation where maybe you are sick you need to take a sick day and they're like oh actually no we're gonna have to take some money out of your paycheck for that then you're like um actually no because my contract says this so um just kind of know your contract very well um not only before you sign it but then also after when you're working so that you're just know your rights what you're entitled to right but also your responsibilities obviously so um yeah it's like it goes both ways um but there's just many employers um I just know from experience in China and in Korea many schools who kind of try to loophole their way around and kind of take an advantage of their foreign teachers um well unknowingness of local laws and um they're not very familiar with you know what they're entitled to because it's a foreign country so you trust your employer if your employer tells you oh yeah you don't have any sick leave we have to take something out of your paycheck you're like oh yeah that sucks but I guess that's correct um if you say so um but no check your contract and even if something is in the contract and you're like huh that kind of sounds wrong refer to um there's like in Korea they have this helpline for legal things so foreign teachers not foreign teachers any foreigners they can call and actually get free legal advice so you can actually ask them hey my employer that this is this okay is this legal can he do that can they do that um because you never know so anyway I digress it's not all schools are bad or doing that but many do and try you know it's a business so they try to um obviously make you teach as much as possible and try avoid sick days and vacations and things um that you're actually entitled to so um yeah you just need to know these things all right before we move on to the next point I have a comment here from Amitava I just want to read out real quick since I'm coming from a non-native English speaking country like India and not from any of the seven native English speaking countries am I not eligible to apply for any public or private schools in South Korea please elucidate further in this regard yeah so actually um there is an additional clause for people from India so actually you're in luck this only applies to people from India so if you have if you meet all the other requirements that um the teachers from these seven countries um have if you meet the requirements plus you have a Indian teaching license so a teaching license from India then you also qualify for a e2 visa in South Korea so that's the only way people from not these seven countries can also teach in Korea when you're from India and you have an Indian local teaching license so you can look into that but right now this is the only way there was a case and I'm not up to date on this but there were some people going to court to change this law or this visa requirement for the seven countries in Korea because at the moment only people from Canada America UK Ireland South Africa Australia and New Zealand are able to obtain this e2 teaching visa for South Korea and there was a case from where a school really wanted to hire this amazing teacher but he happened to be from Nigeria so not from one of those seven countries so they actually took this thing to court and they started doing petitions and this is still ongoing right now to change that so that it's no longer a requirement to be from one of those seven countries and schools would be able to hire anyone as an English teacher so that's what they're trying to change at the moment so I'll update you how that goes but since you are from India there is this one way to actually get to Korea with an Indian teaching license hope that helps okay so I think this was the fifth or sixth point I forget um yeah oh six so seven next point you need to check are your work hours stipulated correctly so usually in the job offer already there will be teaching hours so how many hours a week you have to teach how many classes how many teaching teaching time etc it would be clearly stated there and so you want to make sure that in the contract and the actual contract it is the same and they don't give you more hours for example let's have a look at an example here so there should clearly be a section about work hours and it says not only how many hours per day so here in this case eight hours per day for five calendar days per week from Monday to Friday and shall not work on Saturdays Sundays Labor Day May 1st and any national holidays of the Republic of Korea so again this is an example from Korea but will be similar in other countries so yeah not only how many hours a day you need to work but also which days of the week in some schools especially private schools you're also going to find that you have to work on the weekends so I used to work in a school in China that worked yeah I was working Saturday Sunday but I was off Monday and Tuesday because weekends are busy days for private schools because kids don't go to school those days so they go to the private schools so that just depends so maybe you'll need to work five days but it's Wednesday to Sunday depends every school's different or might maybe have two other off days in the middle of the week whatever every contract is different just make sure that the work hours and the days are correct as you expect them and then also there's a section here about employees class instruction hours per week shall not exceed 22 hours and then if they do exceed 22 hours due to supplementary supplementary class instruction the employee shall be entitled to supplementary class instruction pay of $20,001 per hour that's $20 per hour so this is also important that this is in the contract what happens your your class time the actual teaching hours so as a teacher you have teaching hours and then you also have prep time right you also do that at your job you're not doing that at home so yeah that's very important and then what happens when you have more than your maximum teaching hours a week you get extra pay so that's important and then again here mention of overtime pay there should be a section on that too we talked about that previously but make sure that is in there as well good then oh another example oh yeah this is another example that's a little bit more in detail what you might also see in a contract so here you actually have a clear even with the time of the day when you will teach so this is probably a public school where every day is the same so here it says you're from 10 a.m to 7 oh maybe it's a private school 10 a.m to 7 40 p.m free lunch provided Monday to Friday um and from 1 30 to 3 p.m a break okay so break time from 1 30 to 3 p.m also important that that's in there only class from teaching in excess of 120 hours per month approved is to be considered as overtime again mention of overtime all right so sometimes they will also throw in the actual times they should actually have this here they don't um not sure why so your actual working hours the time that you need to be there also should be stated like this 10 a.m to 7 40 p.m and free lunch provided and break time when is the break time okay nice then we have number eight nine and ten so this is all about sort of termination um and how to extend your contract so we have how to terminate the contract early and the penalties for doing so the offenses which may lead to your dismissal and contract termination and how to extend the contract and any benefits for doing so so this also needs to be stated in the contract for example here things about resignation the contract obviously normally it would go until the date that's the end date that we mentioned earlier until then however if something happens and you want to resign early there would be a time you need to give notice of termination that should be stated and then any um yeah any uh yeah if you don't do that so this is for korea the penalties for doing so so if you don't do if you don't give 60 days notice you'll be reported to the immigration service and you might get um your visa might get canceled so it's important to know right if you're like oh i don't like the school but you don't give 60 days notice and you just quit you don't show up you get reported to immigration your visa might get canceled so it's important to know your responsibilities as well or it might lead to problems if you you know quit earlier resign earlier this is on renewal so this also should be in there if you want to renew if both parties agree you can renew for another year and then what do you get for renewal there's usually renewal bonuses they also need to be stated in the contract so this is what you would get yeah and all the things that have to do with renewal and then also the things here in um when the the contract can be terminated uh when it's legal for the employer to terminate the contract when you violate any laws of the country you don't obviously do your job heal you fail to perform your duties as mentioned in the contract all of these things if you don't actually hold the right visa all of these things can lead to termination so you also need to know these things right so that's very important um so you don't do make any mistakes and get kicked out for some reason or something just what i want you to take from this take away from this is understanding your contract is very important you need to know your responsibilities but also your rights and what you what you are entitled to right that's very important and this basically concludes this presentation now or this live but i have some bonus tips for you and that is so when you receive your contract you read through it obviously there might be some parts that you don't really understand but even after going through the contract with the checklist that i'm actually going to give you soon get someone you trust to read through it before you sign it so this could be a friend this could be a parent anyone just have somebody read through it maybe sometimes you overlook something or you know four eyes are better than just two so have somebody look over it and also good to know in most cases this is over here you will actually sign two contracts so one you will sign in many cases before you leave your home country they will send you the contract signed the school signed it already then you sign it and then you take this contract to the embassy to get your visa and then you will usually also sign one more when you arrive at the school sort of like their copy because i think the the first copy the immigration office or depends on like the embassy they actually keep that they don't give it back to you in many cases so then when you arrive you actually sign another contract so make sure that these two contracts are identical that you sign the same two contracts and then that no facts have been changed also very important so those are the two bonus tips i have for you and then let's have a look real quick at the the checklist here so again this is everything we talked about feel free to screenshot this and just keep it for you for reference to refer back on when you have a teaching contract so again first point we talked about was is the contract written in English and easy to understand do not sign a contract in a that's in a language you don't understand right usually teaching contracts they will either be only in English or English and the other language of the country and then you need to make sure if that both versions are the same then the second point was is the name of the school the same as the one you were told during interviews and hasn't been spelled correctly is the logo the same is the location of the school the same or are they trying to send you to different campus all of these things make sure third point was is your name and passport number on the contract and are they correct also your date of birth your home address all of these things are they on the contract and are they correct this is important for your visa so that there are no delays and any problems the next point is is the salary the same as the promise to you in the interviews and is it written down correctly also overtime and the overtime pay stated is very important the start date and the end date are they written down correctly and here it says please note these dates may not be the same as your arrival dates to china or wherever you go because usually you're arriving a little bit earlier right you're arriving earlier before your actual start date so you don't fly to a new country and then start teaching on that day right usually they might be like a two week training or something uh what's the word a forget the word introduction not introduction anyway like a two week training or whatever and then you start something like this that might happen and then also when you contract ends you might not leave right away right maybe you want to do some traveling or you just need to move out you're not leaving on the date at your contract ends right so just make note of that the next point would be go through your package details carefully so your bonuses your benefit package is everything with regards to the benefits written down the same as previously agreed upon so that includes housing medical insurance any kind of bonuses overtime pay as well health insurance all of those things the next point was are your work hours stipulated correctly so what days do you work what time of the day you work overtime pay how many teaching hours a week or a month so all of those things you need to check and then are the following details with regards to the contract stated it needs to state how to terminate the contract early and the penalties for doing so if you want to terminate early how do you do that and yeah what penalties come with it how to extend the contract and any benefits for doing so that needs to be in there and also the offenses which may lead to your dismissal and contract termination so here you have it your checklist of the things that you need to watch out for before you sign a teaching contract i hope that everything makes sense and you feel a little bit better before taking on a new position you feel more confident in this whole process i hope this helped you a little bit so again feel free to screenshot this so that you can refer back to it or whatever you want to do so yeah this is it for today basically and before we go into q and a i just want to say that uh this again was from ittt you can find us at teflucourse.net and here on social media and we do have this 30 off opportunity so you can go ahead and scan this qr code again to get 30 off your teflur t-sol course for today and you can also use our code i'm just going to the link excuse me the link i'm going to share again in the comment box here so you can also click on that and fill out the application and get a 30 person discount so yeah that is it all right let me have a look here leteric says nice contracts matter and we need to fully understand your contract yep i screenshot the checklist thank you for the tips so helpful yay thank you so much i really appreciate that um so yeah i mean it is very important you know a lot of us we just especially young teachers just out of college me included no idea what's going on in a different country you just trust your employer you just sign it whatever but it's really important that you just take some time and think about your contract keep your in mind what you're entitled to throughout your employment so that it can be like hey actually my contract says this um you know what happened uh why is it different now like actually my contract i'm entitled to this so what's going on you know how's answers where is the hairband yeah okay i'll put it on next time i felt like it didn't go with i don't know i actually forgot it could have yeah it could have looked cute too all right i'll put it on next time nice to see you too fauza all right then we are officially officially in the q&a part of this live so i'm still here for a couple more minutes if you have any additional questions either about today's topic or about teflutisal in general teaching english abroad now is your time to ask me this question before i sign off if you have any topic suggestions for upcoming live sessions also feel free to put them on the table um and um yeah that's it that is it so whatever you feel like amitava says thanks a lot linda for your kind suggestion and support you're welcome thank you so much for taking like an hour out of your evening or morning i think it's morning right morning wherever you are taking an hour of your time to spend it with me i really truly appreciate that i'm so thankful for all the people who come back here all the same people and the new people too who come back here every week i really appreciate you guys it's so much fun to see you and see our tefl family grow we're building these connections and we make really good network and everybody's kind of sharing what they're thinking and it's just great so thank you so much for that i really appreciate it i'm always looking forward to friday morning when i do the live sessions i'm like oh who will i see today um because we've just grown to be this cute tefl family now i appreciate it okay detailed explanation about all the visa process with examples would be great linda i think this is a little bit difficult to do because the visa process is different in all the countries and also then for it depends on your own nationality so i think that's a little bit difficult to do um so i'm not sure i'll think about it because it's just different from country to country so i don't know hmm i'll i'll think about it and see what i can do thank you though juliana says thank you for these essential materials today the live session helps me review this information for the second time it becomes much clearer than the first time i heard this information yeah i was like oh is somebody gonna notice we talked about this before but in my defense we talked about this in july last year so everybody you see juliana here juliana is pretty much here every week for over a year already so um very good student here and i did update some information in the slides too though but it's just hard coming up with new things every week and i think we've we've um we have a lot of new viewers over the last couple of months so i thought this is a very important topic so i wanted to do it again and uh a little bit with reviewed and new information so um yeah thanks juliana fazanzas thanks for everything linda thanks for always being so helpful and easygoing you're welcome thank you for always being here you're so sweet i appreciate that me too almost yes you too i know brett hello i was wondering always brett here today haven't seen any comments but okay watching quietly from the corner i see no that's fun i appreciate you guys all right um well i'm just gonna put it out there one more time if anybody has one final question now is your time to ask before i sign off and head into the weekend so what are you guys doing this weekend maybe we can talk about that before i leave what are your plans juliana is probably gonna stay inside since it's so cold i am going to check out more cherry blossom spots this weekend before they're all gone i think one more week maybe and then they're all gone oh physical therapy what happened oh you need to let me know what happened i hope you're doing okay all right well if there are no more questions then we are at the end um maybe if somebody wants to take another screenshot here of the checklist feel free to do so now before i turn this off as always you can um you know watch the replay watch this information again um and then yeah even if you leave any comments in the replay we'll get back to you as well on facebook and youtube hello maiden hi how are you doing oh favizan is playing soccer and volleyball and fasting good back lifting a heavy cabinet oh no brats oh i hope you feel better soon well we're not getting any younger right me too i have problems with my knees i stopped going to therapy physical therapy so i need to go back there i feel yeah i hope you're feeling better i hope everybody took a good screenshot of this and then i hope i'll see you all next week again if you have any suggestions like i said for upcoming lives i took note of what fauzan suggested with the visa so i'm going to look into that but i think it's just going to be a little bit difficult because the process is just different everywhere but i'm going to see what i can do so thank you for that suggestion and then juliana got freezing rain in a couple minutes oh gosh okay whoo stay safe everybody out there stay safe have a wonderful weekend and thank you so much for joining me today i really appreciate that and maiden says i'm now enrolled in the 120-hour tefl course with the additional young learner yay awesome congratulations that's awesome congrats i hope you're having fun so i guess it's what you're going to do this weekend you're going to study take your course work through a couple of units that's a great plan thank you yes i'll be back next week as well i'm looking forward to seeing you yay i love cherry blossoms as well happy weekend to everybody and thank you so much again for spending some time of your day today with me i really appreciate it and then i'll see you all again next week i hope until then uh yeah bye have a good one bye bye