I applied in-person. I interviewed at Elite Education in Feb 2024
Interview
Avoid - they are unprofessional, dismissive and very transactional. Overall it was a highly disappointing experience and I expected more given that a) they approached me to discuss the captioned role and b) I had spent significant time (as they did too) discussing at length business plans, org structure, success milestones for the role - only to be ghosted and rejected with a generic "we found a better candidate".
It is a hugely competitive market so this understandably happens - my issue is with the fact that they ignored my follow up messages over 3 entire weeks and finally responded in a way that showed complete lack of regard for your personal input into the process, when they were the ones who invited me in. They had mentioned there was a competing candidate, so why not operate on honesty and notify me/candidates early on that a decision was made early on? This complete disrespect for the candidate experience is hugely off putting and says enough about their (lack of good) practices.
The founders are a husband and wife tag team, so that should have been clearly indicative of a poorly run organisation despite their idealistic visions and self-promotional talk of upholding high standards for their private educational services. It seems ironic that they speak of wanting to build a better culture yet behaviourally show signs of entitlement and unprofessionalism.
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Elite Education (Sheung Wan) in Oct 2023
Interview
Did an interview in October 2023.
First of all, you have to fill in an application form with your details. Afterwards, the HR hands you 2 sheets of paper. One of them is a 5 paragraph essay for you to make corrections, and the other is an opinion paragraph to write. You have about 20-30 mins to finish both tasks. They are fairly easy tasks. You first meet the HR, then the owner/manager comes in. Maybe I am delusional but I felt they were really happy about my teaching background and showed great enthusiasm in me. The manager told me so much about the company's background and the career path one can take. We finished off the 1 hr or 90 min session with the owner asking me my expected salary. Since then, I never heard back from them.
I think they don't want to pay the market rate and are looking for talents that they can pay less.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself:
Do you see yourself taking the educator or consultant path?
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Elite Education in Sep 2023
Interview
I applied online, I spoke with HR over the phone and then was invited in for an in person interview. This was with HR and I believe the manager. After talking I was asked to do two written tasks. They were extremely complimentary, even went as far as asking me if I was serious about the job during the interview, because they liked me and didn't want to waste their time. They offered me a job the next day. I asked for more money during negotiation but they then just stopped contacting me. Whats funny is I would have taken the offer that was given. Makes you wonder if they actually wanted to hire me, or if I was another westerner that would have looked good. Either way, I found it incredibly rude that they never got back to me.