Haida Reviews

Although Haida gets you documents to work in China, it is not necessarily with the laws of China. Haida puts your life at risk!!!!!! if you want to maintain a clean police record in life stay away from Haida. They do unscrupulous things to get you documents to work in China. They will get you documents to work in one city and when you arrive in China you are sent to a different city to work. This is illegal in China. Your work permit gives you permission to work in a particular institution and no where else. You can be arrested for working in a city/ school other than the institution stated on your work permit. Haida places you at schools that requires you to work at different branches which is also illegal. When you decide not to renew your contract with Haida you will encounter many complicated situations that will force you to leave the country because your documents are tangled in a web of illegal things, false/inaccurate information was entered on the system by Haida therefore no other school can reapply for a new work permit. If you decide not to resign a contract with them they can prematurely terminate your contract, prepare release documents with your signature stating that you entered into a mutual agreement of early termination without your knowledge. Also, they can upload TEFL certificates to the system other than the one your submit to them. This makes it difficult when transiting to a new employer because the online system will reject your application because the TEFL being uploaded by your current employer is different from the one Haida uploaded.

Everything. This company operates on the basis of lying and using dishonest policies of all sorts to its employees including blackmailing and threats of all sorts. To start with, the commission they charge you is one of the highest on the market which means that 40 % of your actual salary paid by the school will be taken by this company as a commission. Moreover, they try their best to sell themselves to you to make you tied up with a contract for as long as possible. The worst thing however, is the contract itself. After being pushed to extend my contract for another 6 months, I found out that I wasn't working for the school I'd previously worked for without even being given notice. As the company failed to provide me with a job that matches my profile and qualifications, I started looking for employment elsewhere. Once I informed Haida I was leaving, Haida refused to provide me with the necessary legal documents for a visa transfer unless I paid them a huge amount of money as a "penalty" fee. As a result, I had no choice but to leave China a lot earlier. I would really urge everyone to stay away from this company at all cost and never sign a contract with them as you would be literally robbed and lied about throughout the whole time!