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#1 Parent BravoSierra - 2016-06-19
Re A warning to those using CZZ

And do NOT BELIEVE any reference in the Contract you are forced to sign that indicates you will get a Flight Bonus after 12 months!!

#2 Parent BinderDundat - 2016-02-19
Re A warning to those using CZZ

Yes.

All of that and it makes them sound more legitimate than they are. CZZ is really little more than a legal scam gang and yes there main objective is to find honest, sincere, unwitting would-be foreign teachers who just simply don't know whats going on. The naive.

But CZZ also works with another type. Cheater foreigners, smarter travelers who need to game the system, you can say 'friends of CZZ' and they help use, abuse, scam and game the 'stupid newbs' who of course deserve what they get for being dumb foreigners.

So, can confirm all you are saying but actually you are making them sound too legitimate or too organized. Mind you they are very damn good at screwing around on paperwork, gaming technicalities, playing all kinds of games, switch and baits, how to be intimidating or scare people who dont know better etc.

Simply put NEVER should anyone EVER do any business with them and further more if you believe you are actually one of their 'insiders' or told to relax because you're a 'special one' and given some advantages - don't worry they are going to screw you WORSE and harder later on.

but of course i feel bad for the naive 'newbs' who simply didn't know any better and assumed this was a legal responsible job opportunity.

#3 Parent CZZ teacher - 2016-02-19
A warning to those using CZZ

To all who are googling CZZ China, you are already slightly more adapt at finding a teaching job than most of the teachers they find. I once heard jokingly from a history major buff that, in ancient times, people would walk into seaside bars, find passed out drunks, and sell them to a slaving ship to later wake up with the hungover surprise that they are now rowing oars for the rest of their life. This may as well be CZZ's business model for finding teachers. They don't care about qualifications. They will make them for you. I have seen them using MS paint multiple times in their office. They prey on the uninformed and those who don't think they can find a job alone. Their name is notorious in Zhengzhou for being the worst. They have been reported to the US embassy multiple times, including once by me.

I finished my contract with them and will never, I repeat, never work for an agency again. It is foolish. This company promises you a salary and housing, when in reality all schools in Zhengzhou already provide that. They simply connect you with a school then proceed to take 30% or more of your salary every month. My friend made 6,000 a month out of a salary of 15,000. Why? Because you were dumb enough to sign a contract and don't know the language or the laws. Download wechat, find people on facebook in the city, connect yourself that way. So many expats have been taken advantage of by agencies like this that we band together to help people out. Seriously, we have massive wechat groups dedicated to exchanging job opportunities outside of the general darker side of Chinese agents. If I didn't want to remain anonymous, I would give you contacts for jobs right now, ranging from 8000rmb to 13000 rmb a month THAT ARE COMPLETELY LEGAL. And I would do this for free as a service to humanity.

When working with CZZ (or other agents with this business model) there will be two contracts.

The first will supposedly bind you to them. There will even be a clause that dictates that you can't work part-time outside the agency. You want to work a gig that is one hour long for 1000RMB? Too bad, you only get 100 of that if it goes through the agency because your salary cap is 100/hr. They will attempt to hold on to your foreign expert certificate to control you. This document, in China, is just as important as your passport when it comes to switching jobs. They will claim that your visa is linked to them, which will be a lie. The reason they withhold this information is because in reality you can switch jobs at any time in China as long as you have three things: a recommendation letter from the school to which your visa is tied, a copy of the expert certificate, and a Z-visa.

The second contract is between CZZ and the school. You will never see this and will have no idea what information is on it. Mainly, it will negotiate your indentured servitude to the agency and ensure that your salary is split with the agency every month. My favorite clause is that, even after you finish your contract, you can't work for that school directly. If you love your job, you can't work there WITHOUT the agency taking their cut for some amount of years. Admittedly, most schools HATE agencies and only use them as a last resort to find teachers and may be willing to break this clause.

These are the structural problems with a CZZ employment. They use a parasitic business model that targets teachers who are unsure about going to a new country. I was swindled on skype, and it cost me 30,000-40,000 RMB over a year of work (around 3,000 a month). Don't make my mistakes.

My personal altercations with the company go much deeper than their business model. Late payments, terrible apartments, never getting reimbursements, missing part-time work pay, withholding vital documents, not getting my full flight bonus, etc.

I know all of the people in the pictures on their website. None of the people you see are there anymore. 100% fled to other jobs. The website is a pretty wrapping on a package of turd.

Ask your CZZ contact these questions and you will begin to feel uncomfortable:
"How do you make money?" (This is my favorite one to ask agencies)
"Can I talk to the school in person, directly, before I sign a contract with you?" (Then go to China, meet the school, and ignore CZZ)
"Who will control my Visa and can I have possession of the ORIGINAL version of all documents?"
"Can I speak to the teacher who has worked the longest with you" (I doubt you will find someone who has worked more than two years)

Don't do this to yourself. No CZZ, please.

If you really want an agent, use people who do it part-time and take a one time fee for connecting you with a school. My friend got a better job then me as an unqualified non-native speaker using an agent who charged 5000RMB off the first pay check then was finished.

#4 Parent CZZWarningDude - 2015-10-13
Re CZZChina, CZZ Educatiatong contracts and their scam

I'm sorry I can't tell you and I'm not familiar with that name but you should know CZZ and other agencies and schools all seem to have some connection despite different names or offices.

So the only thing I think you can do is be absolutely clear to ask them about CZZ, their relationship, if they hire/contract/work with CZZ. If they say a little or indicate any relationship then be aware and beware because CZZ may as well be called a slave-trading disrespecting crook group that tries to trap and use up foreign teachers.

#5 Parent NicoleK - 2015-09-24
Re CZZChina, CZZ Educatiatong contracts and their scam

Is CZZChina the same as Zhengzhou Zhongtian Educational Counseling Ltd? Or is this a different agency.

#6 Parent formerZhengzhou - 2015-08-12
Re CZZChina, CZZ Educatiatong contracts and their scam

Yes this is correct. CZZ is really a kind of agency that assigns teachers to schools. Every teacher I know about will always find themselves eventually let go from any given school. You may be there 2 months or 4 months but eventually you will get a call saying they didn't like you. Usually just any standard made-up reasons. If you are a spontaneous teacher then complaints you didn't follow the book. If you are a by-the-book teacher then they didn't like you only read from the book. By 'they' means nothing. Anyways, the point is you won't need to worry as they will assign you to another school where it turns out another CZZ contractee just so happened to leave because that school didn't like him. So they will transfer you (see they're nice) but yes you WILL change schools. This will nullify something in your contract yes. You are also correct that many very often the school itself, principal or anyone in the school will actually know about this. That school might even be told that you (the teacher) in fact decided they didn't like that school and wanted to transfer or leave. (decieving both parties). You know the sad thing about CZZ is that a lot of sincere and really good well-intended teachers arrive (almost always 1st timers totally naive of China which is who CZZ wants) but in theory there are a lot of schools and kids and teachers who could really benefit and have a great experience. So it surprises me the Zhengzhou goverment allows CZZ to keep destroying, scamming and fucking up schools and teachers with their barely-legal scam monopoly on things in Zhengzhou? CZZ shames China, gives innocent 1st time visiting foreigners a horrible impression of China and can you just imagine that they go back home and CZZ and how they were abused, disrespected, treated by little men .. that THIS is their idea of what China is like??

#7 Parent The CFT Watchers - 2015-04-30
CZZChina, CZZ Educatiatong contracts and their scam

Written into the CZZChina contracts is a stipulation that: "If the teacher should change schools during the course of the school year the teacher will not receive a performance bonus". CZZChina has a working agreement with most of it's clients that the teacher will be changed out at some time during the teachers working time at the school. The teacher will be told:"The school didn't like you" or "the students didn't like you". The school may be told if not in on the arrangement with CZZ:"The teacher doesn't like the school" or similar. Teachers from CZZ for the past few years have later ran into headmasters or contacts from the schools they have been changed out from and during an information exchange both parties have discovered that they were BOTH mislead. This saves CZZ and Niu Chen tens of thousands of RMB and gives CZZ and excuse for then making "calculations" for pay. Calculations you'll never see and may or may not reflect the actual method of arriving at the payment. Many, many, many, and again many ex and current teachers for CZZChina and CZZ Educatiatong have complained loudly and longly to Mr. Niu only to be: argued with, threatened, told "it's not in your contract" or "I didn't say that and you don't have it in writing", or had employees show up at their apartment to give ultimatums to comply with or be instantly homeless and deported. If you've read the posts around the internet regarding CZZChina and the antics of Niu Chen and you're STILL considering working for them get a CAT scan.

#8 Parent InTheKNow - 2015-04-27
Re WARNING CZZ CHINA READ FIRST!!!

That is pretty much exactly right. I wouldn't add much other to say people should be aware they will arrive and work for 30 days (1 month) then wait until the 20th of the following month for the payment of that first 30 days. That 1st cheque will deduct 3 months rent and any fees such as internet connections etc. So to be clear - you will work for nearly 2 months before receiving less than half a month's salary. Then be assured its okay because you will be getting 100% pay next time. During that time there will suddenly be a lot of complaints and bad reviews about you. You will clearly be the teachers who's really 'skating on thin ice' with them. They do all this so you believe you must stay and you had better not complain because you're already in danger of losing it all. Also, by paying you on the 20th of the following month they are pretty much always keeping 20 days worth of your wages in hand. You leave and you'll never see that money.

#9 Parent Somebody - 2015-03-16
Re New names, same scam

our scam prevention team

Scam prevention team. Heh.

The STFU, I presume?

#10 Parent CZZ China, CZZ Education, ZYX recruiters - 2015-03-15
New names, same scam

It has been learned by our scam prevention team that Niu Chen alias Marco is recruiting under two aliases for CZZ China: CZZ Education and ZYX Education or China. Yes Mr. Niu you are now on our radar. >:(

#11 Parent John O'Shei - 2014-12-29
Re: CZZChina - Zhengzhou, Henan

Indeed. Steer well clear of them, no matter how good or bad the school may actually be, because in the end; getting caught working illegally is NOT fun.

#12 Parent not cool - 2014-12-27
Re: CZZChina - Zhengzhou, Henan

So you're basically saying that they employ illegally ... nice!

#13 Parent BVBEXPH - 2014-12-14
CZZ VICTIMS PASSWORD YOUR POSTS!!

In as few as three weeks ago there was as many as two hundred posts regarding Niu Chen alias Marco and his wannabe criminal activities toward foreign teachers at CZZ and when he was with Helen Group. They have inexplicably disappeared. Please password your posts and back them up with a text file on your 'puters. Nuff said.

#14 Parent BVBEXPH - 2014-12-14
WARNING CZZ CHINA READ FIRST!!!

This is the history and business practice of Niu Chen alias Marco and Dana Kruzic alias Daniel.

1) Jessica Davis was the “HR director” and a rah-rah for CZZ. She was the HR manager who basically mimicked the decisions or directives of Niu Chen the owner of CZZ. She worked for about four months for CZZ ONLY because she needed a visa to stay in China. She was actually a host for a local television station in Zhengzhou. As soon as she could leave CZZ she did.

2) Niu Chen is a 24 year old punk. He cares not what his recruiter Dana Kruzic says in skype interviews to draw potential candidates to China. He WILL: Give assurances, statements, promises, and glorify positions that will absolutely be false or not followed through. He will give the lowest possible pay to teachers for assignments and pocket huge profits sometimes knowing the financial binds his teachers are in. He will ask teachers for favors and never, ever, return the favor, give 100% fruition, or give credit WHENEVER credit is due. In this current version of this business he goes by the alias Marco. Previously he was running an agency call Helen. From the past posts it is plain he was cheating, scamming, and abusing his employees.

3) Dana Kruzic is stoner who gives vague descriptions of positions with schools, company policies,
procedures, and makes ambiguous references to the bonuses that a teacher can get. You will be told that there is a position waiting for you once he accepts you but the truth is once you have spent thousands to get to the P.R.C. you will 'shopped around' to various schools or training centers to see if they will accept you for a position. The description of the apartment you might be living in will not be accurate or be appropriately equipped. You might be forgotten at the airport upon arrival, or it might be changed or forgotten what position or school you were to have had waiting for you. Some of the schools will reject you if you are not from the United States or Canada.

4) The temporary apartment you may have waiting for you will be dirty with no kitchen and nothing to clean it with. The apartment you will be provided by the school may be unbelievably filthy, stinking, with no working water, and have no kitchen. It may be livable when you move in but don't count on it. Make sure that you boil the water from the tap if you use it for anything. One of CZZ’s teachers got metals poisoning because he didn’t boil the water long enough.

5) You will sign a contract that you will not be given a copy of, counter-signed by Niu Chen, and according to Chinese contract law enforceable in ANY country. It is an instrument only to be thrown in your face if you have any complaints about promised pay, over-time, or other stipulations that the company will brow beat you with to arm twist you into compliance. Understand now that you will NEVER, EVER, fulfill the stipulations of the contract to get the full amount of money you were told that you could receive. You WILL lose anywhere from 15,000 to 20,000 RMB.

6) You will be assigned a ‘TA’ or a ‘CS’ depending on the vernacular used at the time. These people are simply underpaid and over-worked company employees whose job it is to help you with things you need for the company, shopping, bus directions, or issues with your apartment. The girls are very good but the boys tend to be lazy and slick. Slick trying to work you for little things. The boys aren’t reliable and the girls do a good job. If you get contacted to do something you need to do it will be at a moments notice: moving, appointments, etc.

7) The school may or not be a school where there was a previous teacher from the agency. If it was there was probably a fall out from the teacher or teachers before. At some schools there will be a department head or subject who will be trying to eliminate the laowei (foreigner). In ANY event the students will be lazy rich kids whose parents were told that all they had to do is pay the tuition and the children are guaranteed to go to a western university. You cannot establish any discipline and there are no failing students. If you do in either case you will be complained about and back stabbed by the students AND the school. You will hear stories from CZZ such as 'the teacher was a racist' or 'the teacher got drunk every night' which if you talk to the teacher who was removed you'll find out these comments were lies. Even if the lies are debunked and the office knows the truth these will used as leverage to deny bonuses, or reduce pay, etc.

8) You will receive pay on or about the 15th of every month. Never earlier and always later if the pay day falls on the weekend. If you work some ‘other’ voluntary assignment you will receive your pay on the 20th of the following month. You WILL have days missing that you should be paid for usually regarding the first days you work. Many, many, many, of CZZ’s teachers often have unresolved pay discrepancies
that are usually not worked out in their favor. Your first pay is held back so that the company can recover its initial fees for hiring you. You are not told this and this puts you in a position that pressures yourself into continuing working to get back your expenses from coming out to China. The most you can hope for is to break even.

9) If you attempt to stand up for yourself either to the school or the CZZ you will labeled either a ‘bad teacher’ or a ‘bad employee’. If you get angry with the office you will be threatened with: expulsion from China on a moments notice, blacklisting from China, or withholding of pay.

Final word. This post is a collection of conversations that I’ve had with the teachers of CZZ. Unless they come across this they will probably have no knowledge of what’s written here. As for me I’m fed up with the practices of Chinese agencies and have gone home to my country.

#15 Parent BVBEXPH - 2014-12-14
FORMER CZZ VICTIM READ READ READ!!!

I write this at great peril to myself but here goes. In the last five months two employees finally had enough of short salaries, broken agreements, and Marco making up for shortfalls in his pocket by skimming employee pay. Two employees that stand out of the constant exodus of employees that leave the horror of employment with CZZ decided to leave.

Both were threatened with arrest, deportation, and blacklisting. Of one these are the following events that occurred from the beginning and are currently still (that's correct currently) going on. My good friend and excellent teacher gave a notice to leave under Chinese labor law which states: "If a teacher does not receive his expected salary or pay on the assigned payday or within 24 hours of, may at his or her discretion cancel the contract". This happened at least four times to to him my knowledge.

Again this is stated in Chinese Labor Law: "If threats are given for any reason this immediately revokes the contract".

The half owner of CZZ and his girlfriend who is the Human Resource Director accepted the separation and gave the teacher until the 22nd of August to vacate the apartment which IS NOT OWNED BY CZZ BUT ACTUALLY AN ENGLISH TRAINING CENTER. This lovely apartment which I saw myself was filthy upon moving in, the AC did not work, the main light fixture, the water to the sink in the WC, the doorbell, the wall clock, the toilet did not work properly, and the apartment reeked. The teacher who is something of a handyman repaired at his own cost all of the things that did not work with the exception of the toilet. On the day he was to receive his documents three employees of CZZ showed up at his apartment.

This is eight days before the day the COMPANY APPROVED MOVE OUT DATE. In a phone call from "Marco" on a mobile phone carried by one of the employees he informed the teacher that he "either immediately sign a new contract or move out of the apartment immediately". The new contract offered was for less money, a city out of the current city, and he would have to be on "probation" because had cancelled the contract. My friend fell immediately ill and had to be hospitalized a few hours later from the stress of this extortion attempt. This is the fourth time my friend had fallen ill to the stress caused by the horrid treatment of this company. Because of the illness he was unable to sign a new contract immediately and it bought him a few days to decide what he should really do. He moved out of the apartment with the help of some close friends and had a place to stay for a few days. He did not inform CZZ simply because of fear for his personal safety.

On the following wednesday Niu Chen (Marco) sent thugs to the teachers' apartment posing as policemen to "explain the dangers of breaking a contract". He also sent the same thugs this time posing as employees of the Public Security Bureau in Zhengzhou to talk to a Chinese friend of the teacher in an attempt to locate my friend. My friend went up to Beijing to the American consulate and with their help saw a doctor and was able to hide his true location for a few days. CEO Niu Chen (Marco) instead of just letting the teacher leave started a terrorist campaign against him. He through his bribed official friends had his visa cancelled, residence permit cancelled, expert certification cancelled, and began the process to blacklist him from China. This is nothing short of terrorism. It's the same as ISIS or any other heinous terror group.

I asked a Chinese student friend of mine to call CZZ a few days before this post posing as a recruiting agency asking about my friends' documents and other things. "Marco" informed the student of the cancellations and blacklisting and said there were "work related issues". My friend never missed a class, a day of teaching, and was ALWAYS POPULAR WITH THE STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND ADMIN OF ANY SCHOOL HE WAS A TEACHER AT. The only problems he had at any schools (one of which I was a personal witness and the other one I got first hand info on) were two schools who had employees creating lies to run off CZZ employees for fear of their own jobs.

Mr. Niu Chen "Marco" is a contemptible, sniveling, lying, scamming, back-stabbing, wannabe thug. He hasn't done these things once or twice but again and again to teachers not only in CZZ but also with a company called Helen Group in Hangzhou. His answer for his deal breaking and salary shortcomings is either "this is China" or "it's just China". This is the same as a teenage girl who says "Whatever!!".

If you're reading this and you're on the bubble about working for CZZ you've been warned. If you've read this far from the many, many, posts regarding this company you're not very smart to begin with because you should've made a decision before this post. I was lucky this kind of crap wasn't pulled on me but I feared for my safety every day and was always nervous about my salary on payday while working for this company.

#16 Parent BVBEXPH - 2014-12-14
CZZ CONTRACTS- READ

Make sure in your CZZ contract two things are in print on it before you sign it:

"If the teacher does not receive his or her EXPECTED pay or within 24 hours therein, the teacher may at his or her discretion cancel the contract without penalty or threat of dire consequence."

"If any THREAT, (deportation, blacklisting, physical harm, unlawful seizure of passport, etc.), is made toward any teacher for any reason, these actions in actual fact cancel the contract."

From China Labor Laws regarding foreign teacher contracts.

#17 Parent BVBEXPH - 2014-12-14
CZZ VICTIMS YOU HAVE RECOURSE PLEASE READ

You have help available to you don't take threats lying down. If you're are threatened, attempt to extort or blackmail, or have your passport seized go immediately down to the PSB (Public Security Bureau) and file a complaint. Take a COPY of your passport with copies of the Z or L visa page and your residency permit page. While you are there get copies of your expert certification and a name or phone number of the person you're speaking to as well. Notify your consulate of your situation but be advised they will only record your contact and not take any action. The government in Beijing is aware of CZZ and are investigating and taking steps against them. The following offices below are at the national level and can offer help:

Honorable Wu Aiying
Minister of Justice
Ministry of Justice
10 Nandajie, Chaoyangmen
Chaoyang District, Beijing
100020, China

Honorable Yuan Guiren
Minister of Education
No.37 Damucang Hutong,
Xidan, Beijing, P.R.C
100816

He Guoqiang
National Bureau of Corruption Prevention of China
NO.2 Guang'An Men Nan Jie,
Xuanwu Disrict,
Beijing 100053

#18 Parent ZhengzhouJoe - 2014-01-07
Re: CZZChina - Zhengzhou, Henan

Someone was posting about this company being 'Illegal' and that isn't helpful since 'legal' or 'illegal' are some fairly ambiguous, subjective 'foggy concepts' that may or may not mean much.

CZZ is essentially a semi-legal triad. A gang. It's sort of like working for 'legal criminals' who buy foreigners to own for a while. They are actively disrespectful to foreigners. The contempt is tangible in the air and body language alone. You will not really know who you are working for anyways. You may have an agent who's somehow a subcontractor that's an associate of CZZ but somehow you don't actually work for them directly.. yet you do, kinda.

They will not provide you a work permit or they might. But later. Maybe. But there will be problems. So maybe not.

The real problem as of 2013-14 is what I called the 'self-degenerating cycle' where CZZ loses foreigners quickly. They are (maybe understandably) upset as they only see the money and time they lost on the investment. (they do not care the foreigner has risked far far more and paid far more to be there) so anyways here is where they develop ways to 'get their money out first'. They will invent 'pay periods' and try and stretch your first paycheck to about 6 weeks after you start. But the foreign teacher (who's invested far more time and money) will get very nervous (6 weeks, your flight costs.. hey.. will they pay?) and they will - deducting any and all fees they can. So expect half a paycheck. This is when foreigners get scared and because there is still no Z-Visa (2 months and counting) they start to panic and get this.. even foreigners who would not otherwise have left CZZ will NOW START finding ways to leave CZZ... and do. Then CZZ sees this as 'confirmation' they need to trick and scam and fleece and 'skim' even MORE on their new hires. Downward cycle.

There are plenty of other things too. Expect to be 'golden' when you start. After 1 month when you start asking questions you will suddenly find you are a real screwup and get harshly criticized and suddenly become a bad teacher. (this is typical stupid Chinese negotiating crap).

Other problems include the worst scheduling I have EVER seen in my life. I mean seriously - you will be late (or many hours early) or arrive at canceled classes around 30% of the time.

Sometimes it will be your mistake due to the ridiculous confusing communications but mostly it will be incompetence. So you will pay money to travel for hours and then you will be given warnings about being late or missing classes. Maybe 35% of all your schedule.

Now to make things worse - they will assign a young man to antagonize you. His name is Tom and he has no respect for you whatsoever. He will actually CAUSE you more problems than he will solve and then laugh at you for being so stupid. He has what we'd call 'ADHD' and he will also skim, scheme, game and work you. He will actively disrespect you. In fact, CZZ has such little respect for foreigners that they will act OUTRAGED when you DARE to be offended. Then say you offended them and then say whatever you said back to you but even harder.

Personally, I was 99% certain they would NOT pay me after attempting to give me 1500 RMB (after 6 weeks I remind you) and I did get that upped to 6000 (9000 would have been better). but after waiting another 5 weeks - YES they actually DID pay me the correct and full amount.

Anyways, totally incompetent (constantly 'misunderstandings' and things 'lost in translation' which never seem to benefit you btw) and quite seriously they actively disrespect their hires (the stupid foreigners they own) and quite frankly some of the rudest, strangely arrogant, stupid bullies I've ever had the misfortune of dealing with.

And in case any of them are reading this - I did not write any of the previous comments on here and I did not mention CZZ to any employers or authorities in China (i made a point of mentioning NO names even when I told of my bad experience).

So I would like to believe it was not CZZ who put me on what is apparently some kind of 'blacklist' that actually does seem to exist based on some interesting things I learned.
But here's the thing - NOBODY deserves to be treated like that.

I have spoken to the alleged manager from Iowa (alleged to have a Canadian wife?) and I really have no idea where he fits into anything other than some kind of co-owner or original investor.

Basically they have made a business out of hiring and turning-over 1st time foreign teachers. They made that their main business. 'turn-over' is the actual business.
(the rent schemes, skimming and 'recycling' 're-renting' etc are a good little payday in their own right).

Once again - nobody deserves to be treated so poorly and they hate you.. which means you will quickly start to hate them back... and even the nicest foreign teachers will soon become miserable and suspicious.

#19 Parent John O'Shei - 2013-11-15
Re: CZZChina - Zhengzhou, Henan

So you have admitted that company is a pile of shit. Well done.

#20 Parent Jessica - 2013-11-15
Re: CZZChina - Zhengzhou, Henan

Hey- so I stumbled upon this and couldn't believe it! Because I actually work at that company currently. CZZChina isn't bad, and the reason they don't give Z visas right away is because they're a small company. However the owner is a Chinese man with American education, and the office has 2 foreigners working in the office- one as a recruiter and the other as an HR liaison between the foreigners and Chinese staff. I think that's far beyond the business model of most Chinese ESL companies, and I would rather be working at CZZ that many other places I have found in China!

Here is the website, which you can also find by just Googling "CZZChina" (where you can also find a link to their Facebook page).
www.czzchina.com

#21 Parent The Chairman's Godson - 2013-04-10
Re: CZZChina - Zhengzhou, Henan

Thanks a lot! I have to double time my research...

#22 Parent foxy - 2013-04-10
Re: CZZChina - Zhengzhou, Henan

I googled the name of the agent. Zilch. I suggest you might well get a private response to your post if you allow readers to respond by letting them e-mail you. That would seem the SENSIBLE thing to do. But maybe you don't really want to work for said agent! Your somewhat sarcastic moniker seems to confirm this!

#23 Parent foxy - 2013-04-10
Re: CZZChina - Zhengzhou, Henan

I'm worried they will ask me to go to HK at my expense then just drop me out when things won't work as they expected.

If they don't want you, you won't be given the necessary paperwork to get a Z visa in HK. You'll be fired before that after they've concluded your teaching is not up to scratch or for other reasons, such as complaining too much.
Even if on a Z visa, you would suffer the same fate......!

#24 Parent The Chairman's Godson - 2013-04-10
Re: CZZChina - Zhengzhou, Henan

Thanks for taking time to reply. I will look into this option. I'm worried they will ask me to go to HK at my expense then just drop me out when things won't work as they expected.

#25 Parent Dragonized - 2013-04-09
Re: CZZChina - Zhengzhou, Henan

Unless they will arrange a Hong Kong trip for your Z Visa very soon after going there, you'd best be careful about taking this job. The last thing you would want is to be working on an L Visa for a few months before they decide to "finally" give you a "legitimate" visa which turns out to be an F Visa or just extending your L Visa at the local Police Station by 90 days. Best leave this gig as something you'd take only if you had nowhere else to go. Good Luck.

#26 Parent foxy - 2013-04-10
Re: CZZChina - Zhengzhou, Henan

I got this email. Does anybody have any experiences with CZZChina in Zhengzhou, Henan? Thanks a lot! Come to China on a tourist visa then work things out? Are you kidding me?

Don't do it until you've found out that CZZChina of Zhengzhou treats its foreign teachers well.

The Chairman's Godson - 2013-04-09
CZZChina - Zhengzhou, Henan

I got this email. Does anybody have any experiences with CZZChina in Zhengzhou, Henan? Thanks a lot! Come to China on a tourist visa then work things out? Are you kidding me?

Hello XXX,

I am an American (from Iowa) named XXX who works for CZZChina, an agency that represents and places foreign teachers here in Zhengzhou, Henan, China. I am helping my company find new teachers for the Spring semester which began April 15th, teachers that could be available ASAP, or for hires looking to begin August 1st. We are looking to expand ASAP, and if interested you could begin work here immediately, however anytime after April 15th is ok as well. The pay scale for the company is 6,000 RMB for new teachers with no experience in a foreign country, 6,500 RMB for one year experience, and 7,500 RMB for 2+ years. Furnished apartment is provided by the company for free, includes internet, trash, water, heat, etc. Teaching assistants also assist you in class with translating as well as day to day life, for example helping you set up a bank account, or simple things such as haircuts. Hospital visits and medicine are free of charge as well and paid by the company. Z visa processing costs including airfare and accommodations, as well as the visa itself is paid for for by the company. Upon successful completion of the contract return airfare is provided by the company free of charge. Mandarin lessons are also provided by the company as well to any employee at no cost.

Since we’re looking for someone who can start teaching ASAP, the employee is expected to pay for and arrange their own tourist visa, as well as their flight to China. As mentioned earlier though the trip home is free if you satisfy the terms of the contract. If you are curious about Zhengzhou, I personally really like the city. Everything is extremely cheap here, the average monthly salary for Chinese workers here is in the 1,600-1,800 RMB range. So anyone making over 5,000 here can live very comfortably and save very easily. It's a big city around 8,000,000 and there are plenty of things to do here. There are not a huge amount of Westerners here so unlike Beijing or Shanghai you definitely get stared at and noticed a lot, this is probably my one critique of the place that I've had in my six months here, but you get used to it. Anyways this is the company's gmail account. If you would like to email any questions or set up a skype session feel free to email at this address, or my personal gmail address at XXX@gmail.com

We are looking to hire immediately if you are interested please contact me as soon as possible. As I've mentioned, I have lived in this city for six months and worked for this company the entire time, so any questions regarding the city or the company feel free to ask.

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