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1st Step for applying for an English Teaching position with CDI Korea:
To apply for one of our English teaching jobs in Busan, South Korea, please send us an email as your initial contact with an attached resume and recent photo to recruitingcdi@gmail.com
[For English Teaching candidates in South Korea, please call us at 051.552.9407 and send us an email as well providing your contact information as well. A resume and recent photo would be handy of course, along with being a mandatory part of the application process to become a CDI Teacher. ]
**Additionally, to secure an E2 working visa, the Republic of Korea now requires you to obtain a notarized or Apostillized Criminal Background Check (or Criminal Record Check) in your respective state or country.
Due to the potential delays in securing the Criminal Record Check, if you haven’t already checked in the process for securing a (1) Criminal Record Check or Criminal Background Check with your state or country of residence, we highly encourage you to contact the local police/RCMP authorities to ask about how to obtain a Criminal Background Check report as quickly as possible. Please refer to the following page for potential locations (via each state) to contact in the United States and for a few other locales. If the resources are not up to date or not applicable, please conduct a search online for “Criminal Record Check [State or Country]” or “Criminal Background Check [State or Country].” (2) The process also includes a notarization of either an Apostille stamp (which most countries except Canada are required) or the local Korean Embassy/Consulate (mainly Canadians). Please visit this page for potential Apostille locations to obtain this notarization of your Criminal Record/Background Check or for Korean consulates If the resources are not up to date or not applicable, please conduct a search online for “Apostille [State or Country].”
2nd Step to getting hired as an English Teacher in South Korea with CDI Busan:
If we feel your qualifications match our needs for our English Teaching positions, we will send you a follow up email for the Instructor position most likely setting up an informational interview. We will need your most convenient contact number and confirmation that we can call up to a certain hour — the time differences between Korea and North America is quite significant requiring us to call either late night or early morning hours.
3rd Step in securing an English Teaching position in Korea with CDI:
If we both feel a match for one another, we’ll need an application and an essay (if applying for CDI Teaching positions) to move to the next step. The application, essay (if necessary), resume and recent photo are all sent to our CDI Holidings Headquarters for processing and they will call you for your final interview usually the day after you send us your application & essay at 11a Korea Standard Time.
To download the application, please click here.
To download the essay topics, please click here.
4th Step in securing your CDI English Teaching position:
Once you are happy with your salary and benefits as an English Instructor for one of our many English Academies, you will need to send us your documents for an E2 visa which include all of the following:
1) Original Diploma — please note “original” — the Immigration office requires the official/original diploma
2) Sealed Transcripts — so your transcripts via an envelope with a seal on it
3) Criminal Record Check with an APOSTILLE stamp on it or an appropriate notarization by the local Korean Consulate (primarily for Canadians applying for English Instructor positions)
4) 2 Passport Photos
5) Copy of the front page of your passport
6) We’ll send you a copy of your contract & if you can just send us back the page requiring your signature - upon your acceptance
7) Signed Health Statement - to download the blank copy, please click here.
You can send the documents to our offices here:
CDI April English HR Center
1476-5, 3rd Floor
Geoje 1 Dong, Yeon-je Gu
Busan, South Korea 611-803
Tel : +82-51-552-9407~8
Fax: +82-51-507-9410
5th Step in securing your year abroad with CDI in South Korea:
While your visa documents are being processed, you’ll want to secure a flight due to the timely need in securing a flight for your departure. We will coordinate a date most likely, but it can be estimated as the a Sunday approximately 2 weeks after you have sent your documents. For a more safe time frame, you can estimate it to be 3 weeks after your documents have been sent. It is important to note when your visa documents will arrive in South Korea since there are multiple options in sending your documents. If you choose the more economical, chances are it will get here later most likely and you’ll want to pad your time on your estimate.
ALSO, you’ll want to schedule an interview for the week prior to departure with the local Korean consulate or embassy and it may be wise to get in contact with them earlier as well to hopefully develop a decent rapport. The earlier during the week for your appointment with the Korean consulate, the better to prevent any possibility of NOT receiving your visa on time before departure. Some Consulates will say they need 3 days to get your passport back. We’ve seen many get it by the next day. However, it is wise to check out the idiosyncrasies of your local Korean consulate.