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hnf2780 · Joined: 22 Jan 2013 Posts: 16

Are there any teaching jobs in Oman that require just a CELTA? I also have eight years experience teaching in Japan and China and also at the University level there. Thank you.

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

You also need a related BA (in education or English) and experience after the CELTA.

VS

hnf2780 · Joined: 22 Jan 2013 Posts: 16

Thanks for the information. My BA is in History. Any chance after I get my CELTA at all?

nomad soul · Joined: 31 Jan 2010 Posts: 11454 Location: The real world

hnf2780 · Joined: 22 Jan 2013 Posts: 16

So get my CELTA, work elsewhere for a few years after that, then look for jobs in Oman/Gulf area?

nomad soul · Joined: 31 Jan 2010 Posts: 11454 Location: The real world

lizziebennet · Joined: 24 May 2009 Posts: 355

Hnf my advice is to go ahead and get a CELTA. I have a TEFL, CELTA and an unrelated BA and after a few years teaching college/uni in Singapore, Saudi and Oman I have had a few good offers (direct hire offers with universities and colleges in Oman and a college in Qatar). I have not been successful in the UAE though so I doubt you could get work there as they truly do require you to have a related degree.

BTW I know a number of people working in different cities around Oman that have unrelated degrees. Some of them don't even have a CELTA but just have random TEFL certificates and have even been hired within the last year. Most of them are with dodgy companies that work with private universities and colleges around Oman but it is the door in and then you move up from there. They have all been approved by the relevant ministries.

I find that recruiting companies like TATI etc are very strict when they look at CVs via email but inevitably as the semester starts they don't have enough teachers and at that point they have offered jobs to a number of people I know who have unrelated degrees. This particularly relates to teachers that are in Oman.

In Oman, SQU is the only place that you probably have no chance getting a job with an unrelated BA, a CELTA and middle eastern university experience (read Saudi) but the rest of the universities and colleges are fair game...

hnf2780 · Joined: 22 Jan 2013 Posts: 16

Thank you for all the information here.

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

It will be a crapshoot with the new rule. Lizzie was hired before the rule and there have been quite a few turned down for this reason in the last year since it came into effect.

IOW... don't count on a job in Oman... or Saudi...

VS

lizziebennet · Joined: 24 May 2009 Posts: 355

VS. They will take any living breathing person in Saudi Arabia these days. What are you talking about?

I am friends in Korea who have unrelated BAs with no CELTA that are getting job offers at universities like Princess Noor. Most of the people I worked with in Saudi Arabia had unrelated degrees.

I don't know where you get your information from but the pay in Saudi has gone down and therefore the quality of teachers. They are even getting some people in on $2000 a month (I would never consider such an offer) so if they can save money rather than pay more experienced teachers with the right qualificatioons they will.

Saudi is not what it once was.

lizziebennet · Joined: 24 May 2009 Posts: 355

Sounded a bit rude sorry but really that is how Saudi Arabia has gone...

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

lizziebennet · Joined: 24 May 2009 Posts: 355

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Sadly true Ms Lizzie... and the worst part is that it drags down the whole market for the rest of us.

VS

JZer · Joined: 16 Jan 2005 Posts: 3898 Location: Pittsburgh

Would a B.A. in Foreign Languages and a CELTA be enough?