Does anyone have any experience working with a place called Jabble English School? I did see a post asking about it about 6 years ago, and some of the evidence they posted no longer exists. The job seems interesting and the pay is decent, but I haven’t been able to find a lot of information about the work environment.
“[https://jabble.jp/teach-at-jabble/](https://jabble.jp/teach-at-jabble/)”
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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>_The starting salary for this position is competitive…_
So competitive they won’t even say how much.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Jabble-EI_IE1583361.11,17.htm
In this situation, you should go to Glassdoor first; but in this case, Glassdoor only seems to have one single review.
But It’s a chain eikaiwa, so like any chain eikaiwa, your experience will depend on what branch they put you in and who you work with. If you get a decent manager and nice co-workers, you’ll enjoy it. And if not, well … you can always quit.
I think everyone knows by now what working in a chain eikaiwa is like. The best thing about working at a chain is that they can’t fly under the radar as easily as mom-and-pop eikaiwa can, so they tend to follow labor law at least marginally. Though from their ad, I think they are breaking the law in not allowing you to chose your own holidays, which unfortunately, is endemic in the biz.
The worst thing about chain eikaiwa is that they make you follow their “methodology” in a cookie-cutter approach to teaching that well, isn’t really teaching.
So go for it, I guess?
I actually just turned down a job offer from them the other day. haha
I had several talks with the owners who seemed really nice. The only reasons I didn’t take it was the fact that you need to work both Saturday and Sunday (the only days my partner could visit me), and I also saw that post from 6 years ago that mentioned looooong working hours and I got scared. lol
The pay does seem pretty competitive for the industry, and one of the owners told me that it was because they don’t have their employees pay into the pension system automatically or something. Maybe there was more than that, but I forgot. Honestly, the work itself seemed fun, but I was wary of possibly having 6-7 lessons a day… I wouldn’t say they give off any blatant red flags though. But I’ve never worked there, so I can’t speak to that!
A friend of my got me an interview there as he knew owner, I didn’t get the job as I was literally fresh off the plane after escaping Wuhan and very far from best form (I have bipolar type symptoms when depressed and made a somewhat unfortunate slip). They were gracious enough to get back to me and say I didn’t get the job (I basically made some comment about Eikawas which I can’t recall).
Anyhoooooo….
It is a small 4/5 branch eikaiwa with the head school in Shinjuku. It was set up by an American and a Canadian who still run and own it. They teach mainly adults in private one-to-one lessons, some small groups of three.
There teaching philosophy is pretty straight forward and practical. It’s pretty no frills but the clients seem to enjoy the focused lessons.
The pay is based on you being self contracted so you claim back the difference in the salary. As I’m useless with this kind of thing in Japan it felt intimidating but I don’t think there is any deception about. They are small business owners trying to maintain cash flow, and is quite a good way of getting a better salary for this kind of work. It’s a pretty small company, you don’t have much legal protection as a contractor so really you need to be absolutely on the level to begin with.
I’m sure it can probably get dull after a while, and there is an expectation you help out with marketing, throw in with the team. So read into that what you will. Again, the owner was pretty upfront about stuff, so if you can get an interview it could be worthwhile, I think a first impression is worthwhile.
PM me if you want more details. But I’ll say this, there are much worse jobs out there, but if you’re looking for more developed teaching; much better.