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[sheisaeval]

Just wondering which places do short term contracts, like 3-6 months?

We're most interested in Asia, but other places (Eastern Europe, etc) are okay too.



But keep these in mind:

We're a couple and would like work/live/teach together if possible.

We have bachelors and masters degrees but no tesol/tefl/etc certificate and no teaching experience

We live in America

I'm Chinese American and he's Half Korean, but we're both fluent in English with no Asian accent.

[Glenski]

Why the short-term goal? You'll barely break even on setup costs in Japan even if you were to find an employer willing to hire you and sponsor a work visa.

[naturegirl321]

Lookk here

http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic.php?t=57593&highlight=short

Working holiday visas also might be an option

[Glenski]

[denise]

Check out Westgate in Japan. You could also look into summer programs, which could be as short as one month (I did a four-week program in China), but you might actually lose money, like I did, unless you find one that will pay airfare.

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[naturegirl321]

[Glenski]

Where did you work, naturegirl? Web site for BUNAC doesn't state Japan as far as I can see, and that was where I meant.

From the BUNAC site:
BUNAC offers a range of working holidays including a summer camp counselling programme in the USA and Canada, flexible work and travel programmes to Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Britain and South Africa and volunteering/teaching placements.

BUNAC offers Americans the chance to work in Cambodia, South Africa, NZ, Australia, Canada, Ireland, and Britain. One Asian country and none in Eastern Europe, where the OP is interested.

From the USA link, it seems that the application mentions working holiday visa ("work and holiday"[sic]) only for Australia, too. Maybe this is nitpicking, but I am only going by what immigration here calls a working holiday visa.

Also, some of those countries that work with BUNAC are not paid work opportunities but volunteer ones. You might have mentioned that.

Your link is interesting because you never answered a question I posed on there, related to countries that offer short-term support/jobs. Why don't you do more than give drive-by answers?

[sheisaeval]

[quote="Glenski"]Why the short-term goal? You'll barely break even on setup costs in Japan even if you were to find an employer willing to hire you and sponsor a work visa.[/quote]

Well, we just graduated and now that we're still pretty mobile, we want to travel and work for a little while, but if possible, we'd like to explore many different locations, rather than just one or two locations, and we do want to start our careers as well. So ideally if we can teach for a couple of months, travel for a month or two, and teach again for some money in another location in a few months, and go on like that for a year or two or so, that would be ideal.

[Kootvela]

I'm afraid (as a representative of Eastern Europe) but you don't qualify for this part of the world There are just too many certified native speakers to fill in short-term positions on their holidays that are few to begin with.

[Glenski]

Kootvela has laid it out for you in terms of visa eligibility.

I will lay it out for you in terms of something else in Japan: set up costs. If you want to flit in for a couple of months, you are going to be in the red. Flight costs are one thing (hardly anyone pays for teachers to come, and even fewer do that and accept people on such short terms as you are interested in). You may not even get a job for the first couple of months.

I hope others give you equally practical advice. It may sound negative, but it essentially narrows your focus.

[naturegirl321]

I was in Scotland. Sorry, I saw that the OP said that they were open to other possibilities besides Japan. That's why I mentioned them. I got a working holiday visa from BUNAC for all of Britain for up to six months.
We're most interested in Asia, but other places (Eastern Europe, etc) are okay too.


And OZ isn't the only one that has work travel, Britain does as well,
The Student Exchange Employment Program Blue Card provided to Work in Britain participants acts as an entry visa and allows US university students and recent graduates to work in Britain for up to six months. The program is approved by the British Government and is a reciprocal work/travel exchange program. The Blue Card is available to eligible US citizens or permanent residents, aged 18 and upwards.

Another possibility might be WWOOF willing workers on organic farms. DOn't paid much, but you can work your way around the world.

But Glenski, you're right, I should have written more, but I was pressed for time. Sorry about that.

[Glenski]