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ohahakehte · Joined: 25 Aug 2003 Posts: 128 Location: japan

evidently most schools that ive applied for the in the past 2 months are hiring for april. a few weeks ago i was prepared to get up and go to japan right away but im less prone to do that now and am considering applying again in a few months. i hope my chances of landing a job are the same then as now...so when did most people start teaching? please vote.

ntropy · Joined: 11 Oct 2003 Posts: 671 Location: ghurba

1st job = September (JET)

2nd job = April (private hire for Board of Education)

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

June. (summer term for an American university)

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Gordon · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 5309 Location: Japan

September

spidey · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 4:45 am Post subject:

1st job - late Aug.

2nd job - late Aug. (2 years later)

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Celeste · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 7:54 am Post subject:

JET programme- August 5th intake.

ERINJK · Joined: 26 Feb 2005 Posts: 25 Location: In Gifu-ken, Japan

Middle of November for 1st job...
( 2 1/2yrs later) - April 1st for 2nd job...
NOW - HOPE the next job will start END of APRIL/BEGINNING of MAY Very Happy

moot point · Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 441

There are jobs available all year round, especially with the conversation schools.

With universities, companies, and school system jobs they are more likely to be looking for teachers when the fiscal/academic year begins in April.

My advice...join a conversation school in the fall and start looking for better pastures to get into the following spring.

sethness · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 209 Location: Hiroshima, Japan

I don't think April (or the otehr hiring frenzy in October) is such a make-or-break thing. Hiring doesn't seem to cluster around the April start-of-year thing much, since although students tend to quit and start in April, they seem to do the two activities in equal numbers.

I've worked for 2 small schools.

One, I got hired and started in August (by phone while living abroad).

The other, I started in December though the actual hire was in October, while I was laying in a Japanese hospital with a broken leg that kept me hospitalized 3 months and gave my new employer the fits. That time, I was replacing a friend who could afford to stay at the school until I was ready to take the reins from him.

Both hires were so I could replace teachers who were leaving in mid-contract.

Perhaps the raelly big schools can afford to have a distinct hiring season, but for small schools it's nearly always "Oh my god, Mr. Smith is leaving us in mid-contract...let's scramble to find a replacement."

This seems to be true for the best and the worst small schools, and everyone in between. I can think of one really primo school and another that sucks, for example, where teachers quit by leaving a note on the school door saying "I quit, I"m gone" and going straight to the airport.

Akula the shark · Joined: 06 Oct 2004 Posts: 103 Location: NZ

ohahakehte, you sure have asked a lot of questions. I hope you are well prepared when you eventually do come to Japan.

In answer to your question

1st job -May
2nd job- September
3rd job- November

worlddiva · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 5:29 pm Post subject:

in february

ps: I applied to ECC first and they accepted me...I declined their application (cause i went with AEON instead)... telling them that my plans had changed at this time and they said they would hold my application for 1 year. So if I don't like where I am now, I can always contact them.

so you might want to apply anyways, and try this technique...although I don't know how good or bad it is....I also don't know if it would work with other companies....