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

Edited December 17, 2020 by KhaoYai

[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