Pros
- great colleagues, friendly centre managers - if you are new to early childhood development and education, talking with the staff is very helpful - decent pay and yearly pay increments - stable 8:30-5 pm 5-day work - Visa sponsorship - discounts on classes
Cons
1) HR pressures you into signing a no-notice termination within the first month contract, when the standard HK labour practice suggests at least 1 week of notice from employer within the 1st month of employment. They usually do this to cut budget when they are low on staff as the standard pay for part-time teachers are about 1,500HKD/ day while a new teacher in probation would be paid pro-rata the first month. 2) Huge racial preference to Caucasian applicants. The reason given to me during my sudden contract termination was ambiguous. Claiming that there has been a sudden budget cut and an overall operational change. However, a new non-POC employee was being interviewed and shown around a few days before my dismissal. So it can't be a budget cut when they would have to spend another few months to train someone new from scratch. This experience felt very unprofessional and a well-thought-out plan by the HR. Completely wasted my time. - Teachers are overwhelmed by the lack of support by the admin. Their admin side of work keeps adding up. - Teachers are mostly teaching the maximum number of classes a day