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Imdramayu · Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Posts: 394 Location: South Korea

How long should I wait for universities to get back to me?

At TESOL Arabia, I interview with University of Sharjah and ADNOC but I've heard nothing from them. Does that mean they passed me over, or do they usually take this long?

mishmumkin · Joined: 01 Sep 2007 Posts: 929

I interviewed with multiple employeres 2 weeks after TESOL Arabia, and all but one employer contacted me w/in 2 weeks to move the process forward. I didn't interview w/ ADNOC or AUS, though.

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

I think he meant UoS, not AUS. I don't think AUS was interviewing, was it? Isn't PI related to ADNOC or were they interviewing separately?

VS

Zoot · Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 408

mishmumkin,

did you interview with any of the PPP's, e.g., Nord Anglia? did they get back to you, if so?

mishmumkin · Joined: 01 Sep 2007 Posts: 929

I didn't interview w/ any of them, Zoot.

@VS: Duh....ADNOC is PI (sorta). My head is swimming w/ this stuff at the moment. Shocked

I did interview w/ them, but I never heard back. *sniff*

carlen · Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 172 Location: UAE

Zoot · Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 408

I heard the same thing, carlen. Some seem to be signing up new schools as late as the end of May.

Alfie · Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 30

I interviewed with HCT and passed. I got a standard email that said that I've "been recommended" and "will be considered along with other candidates for this and future positions."

So what now? This was for a position that starts this August. Will they let me know either way, and within the next two weeks? And if I don't get offered a job for August, will my application (and interview) remain active?

Thanks.

mishmumkin · Joined: 01 Sep 2007 Posts: 929

Alfie · Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 30

Thanks for the quick reply.

No, they did not say (in the email) that they were passing my application on to a specific college. I thought that once you passed the interview, then you got offered to every college and the colleges review the interview tape and documents and decide if they want you.

I know this is late, but as I said, if this is to be for August, you'd think they'd let me know soon.

mishmumkin · Joined: 01 Sep 2007 Posts: 929

adorabilly · Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 430 Location: Ras Al Khaimah

Hey Alfie.

Last year at the TESOL conference in Seattle (I think it was seattle) my wife was told she would be put in the pool.

we didn't hear back from anyone at HCT until the first week of June.

so if they have put you in the pool and you have made all the requirements, just sit back and now you play the "hurry up and wait" game.

saluki · Joined: 08 May 2007 Posts: 30

There is also the possibility that this year could be slower than others because of the reduced numbers being accepted into the HCT system. You may have read on another thread that faculty are being transferred to other colleges due to this reduction.
However, as old hands will know, that doesn't mean that those colleges who transferred faculty at the end of this academic year won't be looking for new staff in September if/when numbers change. There is talk of a recruitment freeze, but HCT always like to keep people in the pool so they have access to qualified staff at short notice, so nothing is definite.

I would continue to search elsewhere if I were you (you can never have too many options!), unless you specifically only want to work at HCT, in which case it's definitely a waiting game.

Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 11:08 am Post subject:

Some people have spent up to a year in that dang pool!

NCTBA

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

Do we know of anyone who ever actually got a job after sitting there for many months?

Since they receive CVs constantly, I would think one would swiftly sink into invisibility...

VS