[CUFS_Professor's Business Blog] Networking Conversation Q & A

1. Tell me about your business, what do you do?
-Currently I work part time teaching elementary and middle school students English. I usually teach lower level listening and grammar. These are the areas I am not confident at but I have been trying to do my best to be good at.

2. What’s the most unique aspect of what you do?
-I can hands down say that letting me wear casual is the most unique and best part of this job.

3. What is your biggest goal with your business?
-My final goal of life is nothing to do with teaching. I am still figuring out what job would make me lead a happy life. The reason that led me to choose to be a part timer is that I wanted a job that enables me to both work and study while pursuing more balance. Although the money is not satisfactory, I am content with the kids I teach now.

4. Who are your power/key partners? If you don’t have any, who would they be?
-I have a co-worker who I have known for over 5 years and we have become friends over time. We first met in the hagwon where I started to work as a teacher. After we went seperate ways, she was looking for a new workplace and I recommended her to a then principal of the hagwon I was working at for the second time. Since then, we have always talked and shared about our jobs and other related occurances.

5. How can I help you in business and networking?
-I have already been given many helps from CUFS and its professors and fellows, especially this never cafe has helped me a lot to gain my confidence in English back.

6. What are your primary job responsibilities?
-One of the best things of teaching part time is that I don't have to deal with other works such as making phone calls to students' parents or unnecessary paper work. That is to say, I have to be fully prepared for my classes. In every class preparation, what I take a special look at is to make sure of each unit's language objective and its key words.

7. What experience did you have to get your job?
-Before being an instructor, I worked as a coordinator of some hagwon for more than 4 years to take care of all administrative works. But at the time I had not considered getting a teaching job in the future at all.

8. How long have you been in your current position?
-I left the previous hagwon last February then restarted my career from December 2017. It has been about 3 months.

9. What did you do before your current job?
-After I got out of my coordinator job, I tried to change my career to a movie marketing and luckliy was hired by a small-sized company. However, the further I got into the job, the more disappointing factors I found and then I quit without looking back.

10. How did you break into this field?
-After the failure of changing the field of my job, I only sought a part time job because I needed my own time to get myself together. Then I was arranged for an interview of my first hagwon that allowed me to start my teaching job.

11. What skills are required in your position on a day-to day basis?
-The most qualification a teacher needs is, I think, how well he/she controls each class with flexibility and how effectively a teacher gets students involved in class participation.