I did reply to the Silver Star advertisement and it was for junior middle school not high school. I received a reply saying that due to management changes they have now outsourced their recruiting and they will pass my application onto their handling agents.

I was then contacted by Buckland in Yongzhou so it appears they now have the contract for that school.

So far during this recruitment season there have been 2 adverts as far as I know. One was for 2 teachers for Silver Star, one post being for senior high oral teaching.

Silver Star is Yin Xing in Chinese. In previous years they have emphasised that they hire direct and cooperate with the foreign experts bureau to hire only legal teachers. Strange that these days they don't advertise as Silver Star and that they are using Buckland, which I believe is an agent rather than a recruiter. They used to advertise on Dave's ESL Cafe and on this board, but I dunno if they still do so.

My take is that they can direct-hire 'suitable' FTs for senior high relatively easily, whereas they can't do so for their junior high school students. The job ad I had seen was for one FT for each, but as Yin Xing.