The article reads as though it’s only for USFK spouses, but it has always seemed to me these people are perpetually short-handed and may be willing to hire people from off-base. Call Jenny Yun at 0505-738-3630 to find out and share in the comments.
YONGSAN GARRISON, South Korea — While some military spouses might bemoan a lack of employment in South Korea, U.S. Army Garrison-Yongsan commander Col. Dave Hall said there is employment for those who want it.
Hall said the garrison’s Child and Youth Services program — particularly at the Child Development Center — is desperately understaffed and is looking to immediately hire 15 to 17 new employees.
"We need to fill those positions tomorrow," he said.
18/02/2009 at 4:42 am Permalink
This could be completely wrong, but I was under the impression that USFK does not like to hire people from off-base/off-post for jobs involving children.
When I returned to Korea fresh out of college (1990s), I worked as a substitute teacher at SAHS, where they needed warm (and college-educated) bodies. They even gave me a base pass.
But around 2004 or 2005, when I applied again to be a substitute teacher, my application was rejected. This time around I had to go through that extensive background search (which I did with no complaints whatsoever, because they should check into anyone working with kids), and the way my rejection was worded had sounded like they had found something in my background, and that worried me (I’ve been a victim of identity theft).
When it was explained in more detail to me, it was something more along the lines that they just — as a matter of unwritten policy — don’t like to have outside people who are not already eligible to work on base/post working in jobs around kids. Why this is was not explained to me, but I was told that, as far as they knew, nothing bad had been found in my background check.
18/02/2009 at 1:04 pm Permalink
Could be fallout from that big deal in 2005 when a lot of the GI’s who went over to Iraq from 2ID abandoned their foreign spouses in Korea and many of these were trying to get jobs as nannies and such so they could retain base access….