Japanese School - Potential Scam

[KhaoYai]

Can any of you guys help?  I have a friend in Thailand, she speaks reasonable English, better than average.  She had a good job with a major hotel group until Corona Virus forced her hotel to close.

 

She recently told me that she'd had an online interview for a job teaching English in Japan. That was followed by some sort of online test.  She asked me for some help with that and the subject matter seemed a little crude.  I am concerned that she may be being scammed or worse, she has no teaching experience - either English or Thai. I won't go into full details in case the matter goes legal but suffice to say that the main things that alerted me were:

 

Given that Japan is a reasonably rich country, why would they even consider a non native English speaker?

 

She has to pay her own flights for the first year.

 

They say they are a small school so they can't give her a contract - I asked if that meant she would be working illegally she said they would arrange some sort of business visa for her.

 

It all sounds very fishy to me - she's a good kid but very naive.  Hopefully someone can help or put me in touch with an expat teacher group in Japan, I'll give more details by PM.

 

Cheers

[LazySlipper]

On 12/18/2020 at 2:14 AM, KhaoYai said:

They say they are a small school so they can't give her a contract

 

Herein lies your answer...

Seek no further