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Glenski
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| I need a school that I know I can get into. |
The sooner you realize this is impossible, the better your state of mind.
Just study the market and what employers want, apply, interview well, and hope for the best. There is no 100% chance of landing a job here with any employer.
Expressions like "they'll hire anyone" are trite. They only mean that such a company has a history of hiring a lot of inexperienced dregs (not necessarily all dregs, mind you). Plenty of people get turned away, dregs and non-dregs alike. |
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fluffyhamster
Joined: 13 Mar 2005
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Location: UK > China > Japan > UK again
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| Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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| I need a school that I know I can get into. |
The sooner you realize this is impossible, the better your state of mind.
Just study the market and what employers want, apply, interview well, and hope for the best. There is no 100% chance of landing a job here with any employer.
Expressions like "they'll hire anyone" are trite. They only mean that such a company has a history of hiring a lot of inexperienced dregs (not necessarily all dregs, mind you). Plenty of people get turned away, dregs and non-dregs alike. |
But that rather beggars the question of why they hire some dregs over non-dregs.
No, hang on, I think I've worked it out: they smartened up for the interview and bluffed their way through the selection process. Or eikaiwa can't don't distinguish between able and unable teachers, which is why they foist potentially idiotic "idiot-proof" Englishdroid methodology on everyone. |
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Apsara
Joined: 20 Sep 2005
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Location: Tokyo, Japan
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Simple answer: There isn't an eikaiwa that will hire "anyone". I doubt there is a company in the world who will take all comers. You do your best at the interview and take your chances, just like everyone else.
Incidentally, there are no spaces between words in written Japanese. |
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Suwon23
Joined: 06 Nov 2008
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Thanks, guys. I know nothing is a 100% percent sure thing, but when I look for companies, I have no way of knowing which ones are 90% or 10% without asking you lot.
And Apsara, I know about the spaces, but my feeble gaijin mind just can't get used to it, unless the sentence is almost all kanji. Thanks for the free editing, though... did I get my grammar right? I wasn't sure if I use "to" in that case or not. |
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Glenski
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN
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| Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks, guys. I know nothing is a 100% percent sure thing, but when I look for companies, I have no way of knowing which ones are 90% or 10% without asking you lot. |
Ask anyway. That's one reason many of us are here.
Few contracts are perfect.
Few employers are ideal.
Bite the bullet. Realize that you may have to compromise, but that forums like this are a good support system before you commit yourself. The market is flooded, so competition is steep, and although I don't advise people to make desperate choices, they may feel that's all they have. Ask if you don't know. |
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