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[skullydude06]

Need information on schools here in Dubai, Abu DHabi, Sharjah and Ajman that will hire someone with B.A and Tefl from Accredited American University and two years volunteer ESL teaching/tutoring. Send me the names of those schools if possible. I am new to this forum.
thanks

[veiledsentiments]

You are posting all over this section and nowhere are you really covering all the important details. In one message you mentioned that you are married with 3 kids. With your lack of both credentials and experience you will find little decent... the pay will be low... the benefit package will likely be bad... and if more than one of your kids is in school, you will be at starvation pay in the Gulf. (unless you can put your wife to work... and/or home school your kids)

VS

[skullydude06]

So is it possible for me to get a job in UAE and if so, which schools should I apply to? IAT, HCT etc.....

[skullydude06]

veiledsentiments
Which schools in the Middle East would you suggest I apply to? For a new ESL teacher.

thanks

[NadiaK]

IAT...maybe. HCT - nope, not without a Diploma or an MA in ELT and 3+ years' experience.

[caliph]

Try TIMS, the Saudi Royal Navy School in Dhahran. that's a good place to start. do a search on it for more info.

[skullydude06]

Thanks for the advice. I will check these schools out.

[stoth1972]

I know you posted this on Egypt's board, too, skully, and I think that would be a better fit given your experience and credentials. The schools in the UAe that hire non-qualified teachers offer crap packages that are scarcely enough to sustain one person, let alone a family. That is a sad reality. They tend to go for younger hires w/ no dependents, because if they provide accommodation, it's quite likely it will be shared.

There are schools that take unqualified local hires (meaning, you have to be living there already, on someone's visa-typically a wife on her husband's visa sponsorship) because they're cheap and easy. They won't offer any benefits, such as plane tickets, education for the kids, or most importantly, visa sponsorship. The only people I know with your qualifications that take these jobs are women whose husbands work in the UAE. Salaries for these types of jobs? No more than 5000 dirhams/month. No benefits.

Then there are other schools that come to mind...Choueifat, whom I mentioned to you on the Egypt board. I would caution even the new grad from taking up shop w/ any of the Choueifat schools in the UAE, Qatar, Oman, etc. To say this workplace environment is unhealthy would be the understatement of the decade. Also, not at all family friendly, unless you and your wife both work there, and then all of your children must attend their school (at a cost, no less). They'd likely have you living in their on campus accommodation in a 2 bedroom flat.

I do think Choueifat in Egypt would be a better match(among the other schools I listed on that thread). Decent management, better conditions, free education for the kids (usually)...they would likely, if your wife planned to work elsewhere (or be a stay at home mother), allow you a small stipend to live off campus, since an entire family w/ only one parent employed at the school does not warrant an on campus flat (both parents would have to work for the school to partake in that). Anyway, the salary at Choueifat in Egypt stretches A LOT further than in the UAE. Imagine earning the same amount of money in both countries, but having to vastly different cost-of-living indexes. $18,500 in Egypt goes much further than the same in the UAE. Egypt, in general, is more family friendly when it comes to work environments. They're also more laxed about the credentials than the UAE.

[kiefer]

Well HCT appears to be looking for warm bodies in Madinat Zayed.

[skullydude06]

thanks for the advice. I will check out that school.