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Solar Strength
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Location: Bangkok, Thailand
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Certification costs vary per state.
Ohio and Tennessee are cheap.
At this point it looks like I will just might work part-time and try to get a full-time job for September.
I could go back to the US, if I could get an adjunct position, then get certified. |
That sucks going from a coushy uni job to part time.
Wouldn't it be better to get certified back home and then come back and teach at one of the international schools here? |
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mitsui
Joined: 10 Jun 2007
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Location: Kawasaki
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| Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2014 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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I have considered that.
I think I can get full-time work again, but not before September.
Getting a job for April is really more competitive.
Things are worse. I used to make 7 million back in 2008, then took a 2 million pay cut the next year. Now, I will have part-time work. |
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rtm
Joined: 13 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2014 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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| mitsui wrote: |
| Things are worse. I used to make 7 million back in 2008, then took a 2 million pay cut the next year. Now, I will have part-time work. |
As someone who might look for a position at a Japanese university in the future, I'm curious: why do you think it is that you've gone from 7m to 5m to part-time? I know it's getting more and more competitive, but in the end, someone does get the job. Why do you think that hasn't been you? Other people with more research/publications, PhDs, and more Japanese ability? People willing to work for less? Employers paying less and less? Employers preferring younger applicants? All/none of the above?
I don't mean to pry. Just trying to get a better idea of what the market is like. I know what things employers list in job ads, but I'm curious about their preferences. |
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Solar Strength
Joined: 12 Jul 2005
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Location: Bangkok, Thailand
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| Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2014 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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| mitsui wrote: |
I have considered that.
I think I can get full-time work again, but not before September.
Getting a job for April is really more competitive.
Things are worse. I used to make 7 million back in 2008, then took a 2 million pay cut the next year. Now, I will have part-time work. |
7 million in 2008, that's a nice salary.
maybe part-time is the way to go. work for several schools - ALT + uni + eikaiwa + corporate. Then if one takes your lessons away for whatever reason, you still have the others and can compensate by finding other work.
Having a single employer and being on a limited contract, you're at the mercy of luck. |
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Solar Strength
Joined: 12 Jul 2005
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Location: Bangkok, Thailand
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| Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2014 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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| rtm wrote: |
| mitsui wrote: |
| Things are worse. I used to make 7 million back in 2008, then took a 2 million pay cut the next year. Now, I will have part-time work. |
As someone who might look for a position at a Japanese university in the future, I'm curious: why do you think it is that you've gone from 7m to 5m to part-time? I know it's getting more and more competitive, but in the end, someone does get the job. Why do you think that hasn't been you? Other people with more research/publications, PhDs, and more Japanese ability? People willing to work for less? Employers paying less and less? Employers preferring younger applicants? All/none of the above?
I don't mean to pry. Just trying to get a better idea of what the market is like. I know what things employers list in job ads, but I'm curious about their preferences. |
rtm,
its because english teaching positions are now only adjunct in japan.
1 year contracts renewable only 4 times for a max of 5 years. No more.
Universities don't want to pay for a full time employee until 65 who only teaches English. |
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Solar Strength
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| Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2014 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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| rtm wrote: |
| I'm curious about their preferences. |
rtm,
their preference is that you do not over stay your welcome. |
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rtm
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Location: US
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| Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2014 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Solar Strength wrote: |
1 year contracts renewable only 4 times for a max of 5 years. No more.
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their preference is that you do not over stay your welcome. |
I understand that, and it's been discussed here ad nauseam. However, my question wasn't about why mitsui can't keep a job for longer than 5 years -- I already know that many contracts are fixed-term. If many universities offer fixed-term contracts with no chance for renewal, that means that there is a lot of turnover, and lots of hiring of new people every few years for these short-term contracts. So, that would mean more open positions to apply for (more than if most positions were permanent ones). Even if many positions are being farmed out to adjuncts rather than hiring a new full-timer, there are still some open jobs, and it sounds like mitsui has been applying to them. However, it sounds like mitsui hasn't been able to get even a short-term contract, despite (from what I remember from his posts) having a relevant MA, a few publications (though not many, from what I recall), some Japanese knowledge, and a number of years of experience in Japanese universities.
So, my question is about mitsui's opinion about why he has been an unsuccessful candidate so far, even for the short-term positions. What do other applicants have that he doesn't? More publications? Higher Japanese ability? PhD? In job ads, employers list a bunch of criteria, but it's not known to the candidate which ones are more or less valued, so I wanted mitsui's opinion, as someone with a number of years' experience at Japanese universities, on whether there are any tendencies to value some criteria more heavily than others. Of course, I understand that there might not be any trends, or that mitsui might feel this is asking too much personal information. |
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rtm
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