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    The Expat Teacher Job Search Guide 2nd Edition
    The Expat Teacher Job Search Guide 2nd Edition
    The Expat Teacher Job Search Guide 2nd Edition
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    The Expat Teacher Job Search Guide 2nd Edition

    By James Rogers

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    Teaching internationally, as appealing as it is professionally, is not for everyone. If, however, you are open to it, you have to read The Expat Teacher's Job Search Guide, the sum of our experience and our research. Written in language that is accessible to all, we do not sugarcoat nor are we overblunt - we know your time is valuable and you want to deal with the truth. The truth is the expat teacher lifestyle can be highly addictive. Welcome to the club.

    With this guide, and this network of colleagues, The Expat Teacher Network provides helpful assistance to those who are looking to start or further their international teaching career. Teachers helping teachers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames Rogers
    Release dateSep 15, 2016
    ISBN9781926935188
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      The Expat Teacher Job Search Guide 2nd Edition - James Rogers

      By James Rogers, with Janice Seto, of

      The Expat Teacher Network

      Table of Contents:

      Introduction to the Expat Teaching Job Scene

      Expat Teaching Jobs & Employers: What types of schools are there, and which one suits me best?

      Stand Out for Consideration: How should I communicate with schools such that I will not be ignored?

      Job Fairs: How can I be successful at job fairs?

      Recruitment Agencies: Which one(s) should I use?

      International Schools Review: How can I find more information on schools I have applied to?

      Effective Job SearchTips from the Experts: What other tools do I need to be successful in my job search?

      Introduction

      Don’t let this happen to you!

      The search for a job in an international school can be daunting to say the least. Rivers of unanswered emails and letters, multiple rejections at job fairs often from Heads of School who have, to put it diplomatically, limited people skills. This was my experience when I first ventured into the world of the expatriate teaching job hunt. The effect on your self-esteem can be intense - it was on mine. For many of us, shameless self-promotion doesn't come naturally and if our experience is limited, it is easy to feel like you've gotten in way over your head.

      With this guide, and this network of colleagues (The Expat Teacher Network) the hope is that we can provide some helpful assistance to colleagues who are looking to start or further their international teaching career. Teachers helping teachers.

      Let’s start by our definition of teacher: you are certified by some jurisdiction in the West to teach children of ages ranging from K-12 in classrooms where English is the language of instruction. Whether it is Cambridge, Massachusetts or Cambridge, UK or Cambridge, Ontario, or Cambridge, Australia or Cambridge, New Zealand, where you obtained your degree and which state/province has granted your teaching certification matters a lot to get noticed by international school recruiters. They also prefer you to have subject specializations – anyone with hard sciences and math get picked over very quickly. Music and English – not so much.

      A certified teacher with the added qualifications like CELTA or DELTA or other TOEFL also may attract attention but these better not be what you lead with. Like it or not, Western-certified teachers and TOEFL teachers are not courted in the same way. They teach distinctly different students and subjects.

      Expat Teacher’s Job Search Guide will help the discerning certified teacher – it should in no way be treated as a Bible. It is as relevant as possible, although certainly incomplete and will probably contain omissions. You will see dialogue on points that some would disagree with. We can only say, it is the sum of our experience and our research. It is written in language that we hope is accessible to all. We do not sugarcoat nor are we overblunt – we know your time is valuable and you need to deal with the truth. How you handle the truth is up to you.

      There are many similar documents, blogs, discussion forums and websites out there, we know that. We freely admit, a lot of the advice we give here has come from our reading of some of these sources, or at least we can say our experience is similar and thus the information we offer is the same. So why not just direct our members to these other sources? Why not just, for example, direct our members to www.joyjobs.com which offers a comprehensive job search guide?

      Frankly, because we find some of the information in many sources to be outdated. Only current information will help your cause, and help you state your case.

      More importantly, many such guides present themselves as advice-givers rather than information couriers. At the Expat Teacher Network, we don't want to spend a lot of time giving you a lot of advice that may or may not be accurate or generally applicable. Rather, we want to present you with as much accurate information as possible and let you make up your own mind. Many of you are experienced international teachers already, and you don't need us or anyone to tell you how to construct a resumé.

      In an effort to be more succinct than many of the comparable documents that are out there, we have divided this guide into four main sections:

      What types of schools are there, and which one suits me best?

      How should I communicate with schools such that I will not be ignored?

      How can I be successful at job fairs?

      Which job fairs should I attend?

      Which recruitment agencies should I use?

      How can I find out more information on the schools I have applied to?

      What other tools do I need to be successful in my job search?

      At the end of each section, there is dedicated space for you to make your own notes on what we've said/imparted in that previous section that most apply to your circumstances.

      Teaching internationally, as appealing as it is professionally, isn't for everyone. Many of us have known colleagues who worked at our schools for a very brief time for a variety of reasons. What is true, is that the expat lifestyle and the expat teacher lifestyle can

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