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bgates276
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 Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:17 am Post subject: ESF international schools |
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Hello,
Just wondering if anyone here has had any experience with the ESF schools. You apply online with your application. It seems like a pretty good place to work. Better pay and smaller class sizes. I was wondering how difficult it is to get in and anything else you might be able to tell me about the job conditions. According to a NET recruiter Footprints, they are interviewing 80-90 people for 20 positions. Would the competition be much steeper than this for an ESF school?
Thanks for your replies. |
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Perilla
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| Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:02 am Post subject: Re: ESF international schools |
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| bgates276 wrote: |
Hello,
Just wondering if anyone here has had any experience with the ESF schools. You apply online with your application. It seems like a pretty good place to work. Better pay and smaller class sizes. I was wondering how difficult it is to get in and anything else you might be able to tell me about the job conditions. According to a NET recruiter Footprints, they are interviewing 80-90 people for 20 positions. Would the competition be much steeper than this for an ESF school? |
ESF positions are far fewer than those for NET and I suspect somewhat more competitive as a result - also because remuneration is slightly better (though NET is also very well paid) and teaching conditions/general work environment far better.
BTW, I imagine the NET prog will be recruiting more than 20 new teachers. |
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bgates276
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| Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:18 am Post subject: Re: ESF international schools |
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| Perilla wrote: |
| bgates276 wrote: |
Hello,
Just wondering if anyone here has had any experience with the ESF schools. You apply online with your application. It seems like a pretty good place to work. Better pay and smaller class sizes. I was wondering how difficult it is to get in and anything else you might be able to tell me about the job conditions. According to a NET recruiter Footprints, they are interviewing 80-90 people for 20 positions. Would the competition be much steeper than this for an ESF school? |
ESF positions are far fewer than those for NET and I suspect somewhat more competitive as a result - also because remuneration is slightly better (though NET is also very well paid) and teaching conditions/general work environment far better.
BTW, I imagine the NET prog will be recruiting more than 20 new teachers. |
Twenty is the number that will be selected in Canada only. I'm sure the total is much higher. |
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Joshua2006
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I also heard that whilst ESF is better paid and generally a better place to be, you will also work considerably harder.
Having said that, I would like to try and get into the ESF world - I think it would help my professional career somewhat especially with IB being the new(ish) way forwrad in life... |
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RickinHK
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| Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 2:01 am Post subject: |
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Good luck with ESF but I'm afraid that it can be a case of who you know and not what you know in ESF.
The pay is good and the work is not too hard or too easy, if you are a mainstream teacher in the UK or Australia than it's no more then you'll be used to elsewhere.
The interview is tough but the jobs that are advertised are not always 'there' - ESF teachers get first choice about where they want to trnsfer to work, for example ESF teacher A wants to move to ESF school B. Therefore there is an advert for teacher A's position at his/her school. Teacher A doesn't get the job at school B so she returns to her old position. Therefore, there was no job vacancy.
They will ask you you about teamwork, situations that you've been in and had success, projects that you've worked on and and professional development that you've had over the past 3 years.
IB experience will be a big plus too at the moment - in either PYP or the IB Dip. |
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