Teacher Online
- 2017-06-09
Actually, as I was reading your comment, I was wondering, how much did [edited] pay you to write this reference to her?
Lol!
Joanne Asker
- 2017-06-09
HKYAA was always there for me if I wanted advice at any stage of the contract and it was nice to have that support. For anyone who is considering working with HKYAA it is not a difficult decision-they are there to help at every stage of your employment. My name is Joanne Asker and I have had the good fortune to be associated with HKYAA in a work capacity at the wonderful school of Good Hope in Choi Hung, Kowloon. Prior to this I had my own business in New York but moved to Hong Kong and took the ESL course before I left. With my experience in various types of acting and working with children, HKYAA recommended me for the teaching position in the well-respected all-girl school, Good Hope and assisted me at the interview. In addition, I was invited to various events that were held by HKYAA as if I were part of a big, warm family!
Tina
- 2016-03-07
Tina
- 2016-01-16
Coarse person! Lol, well-framed, well-sad, well-read post!
Indeed, cheap exploiting money-sucker woman! In fact, I am trying to report her to all the websites where she is posting her job vacancies, because it is all a dirty sharade she's getting her hands in. She thinks she can fool people all the time and undermining their intellegence, trying to show "a smart ass" when indeed she's as stupid as it gets really.
If you have a google account, perhaps you can add your own comments, feedback and impressions on these sites:
https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Hong-Kong-Young-Artists-Academy-EI_IE1046295.11,42.htm
THe more we report the review about this company, the more lives we save not falling prey of this stupid woman who has no sense and clue about education and immigration, law procedures.
Take care my friend!
C.esl teacher
- 2016-01-16
hi,
yes, an kind of interview via skype, she is just a moron, she knows nothing about degrees and try to bullshit. she is just ridiculous. and about visa regulation she is again lying and indeed talk about business visa.hearing her lack of logic it was better to stop that masquerade. A coarse person, unprofessional was my first impression. Unfortunately it seems the esl industry is a lucrative place for crooks.
Tina
- 2016-01-15
Hey,
Thanks man for your comment.
It's good you noticed her. But anyone with a sensible and sharp intellegence would notice her from the skype interview. She's full of lies. My only bad luck was that didn't have time to think fast as I really desperately needed a job, but even in that case it's a terrible mistake to go with her, bcs then you'd be even more miserable, without a working permit and without a job in a stranger's land, the most terrible combination and experience that can happen to you. Because of this painful experience that I passed through, I wouldn't wish anyone to go through working with this unmerciful [edited] as [edited] is. I could not even sue her, bcs I was excempted by court as illegal case and they could not even handle my case in the court.
All she cares is about money and how to get you there as fast as possible so she can start her profit running out of you as a robot to make money and teach illegally on so called "business visa" which you are not even supposed to work with in the first place in China. You risk to be even imprisoned and god save your soul if you end up in Prison because of a stupidity and profitmaking scheme out of you of [edited]. Don't think she's gonna get you out of prison after immigration gets you in.
So did you already have an interview with her? She's extremely unprofessional, have you noticed? She has no clue on what her curriculum should be based on apart from saying: "we teach children how to dance and sing", lol!! She's a joker and a big, big, big white liar, really!
C.esl teacher
- 2016-01-15
hi,
good to read your story. indeed that woman is just a crook, unprofessional and she is saying bullshit about visa, if you tell her something contradicting her lies, she is even telling more rubbish. She is judgemental. for her The TEFL proofs that one can teach but not that one can speak English, very logical...
Interview with her is just a joke.
Be careful all, so many crooks in the esl business.
Dear Friends and ESL Future Teachers,
If you are to have an interview or invitation from [edited], Hong Kong Young Artists Academy, try to think carefully 1001 times before you step into the rollercoster of stupidities that [edited] is gonna put you through. A careless womman, has no clue on how the visa processing work. Does not legally have a registered business in China but lies to teachers that: "It is very difficult to apply for working permit, type Z for China". Indeed! It is not difficult at all, but when I tried to applied, and if you're qualified teacher, and you've got all the education and grades to show is not difficult at all, anywhere in the world. As long as you have some English Teaching proof to show, or that you are native speaker of Anglosakson countries. However, [edited] lies because she herself does not have a business license to give to teachers, when the embassy asks for it. I asked her, and she simply terminated my contract, bcs she said she cannot provide it. Instead of finding other alternative solutions of which she is incabalbe of, she gets rid of you, as simple as that is, or of any employer if they oppose her something.
My other disadvantage was that I had a finger disability, two fingeers attached and as soon as she saw me, she felt sort of "humiliated" by my fingers, and was extremely racist, judgmental in my treatment. Did not even bother to find me a school, just terminated me without notice and asked me to go home.
Be prepared that it may take up to 1 month until she will find a school. She also expects that you should spend from your own money, so she WON'T be paying at all for the 1 month you waste for her.
Above anything else, be prepared tto go with WORKING VISA, BE IT FOR HONG KONG, OR CHINA. Otherwise, if she doesn't like you, she wouldn't care less to let you go, without any ticket reimburment, or visa. You'd have to pay evth on your own. So, be CAREFUL guys with this woman. She has a cunning way to invite teachers, great diplomacy to get her business going, but if you stumble on the road, she's not going to help you. She'll just kick you off. Overall, she's extremely unintellegent person and does not know her ways how to handle with difficult issues, such are contracts ect. Make sure you are LEGALLY working for her, and that means with WORKING visa, not with contract. Contract does not mean anything if you have no visa with her. If something happens, you won't be able to sue her in the court either, without the working permit.
Make sure you get it in your own embassy too, before you buy and spend money for your ticket, coz she won't be much helpful once you are in Hong Kong or Huadu, which she lies also that the job is ini Guangzhou, but in fact it is not. It is in Huadu.