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wiganer
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| rxk22 wrote: |
That is a good point, with recent events, this is probably the best time to apply and get a job in Japan. The next few months will indicate how bad the exodus is. With South Korea, though it came rather quickly, it took a couple of months at least to realise that there was a massive hiring frenzy on and the salad days of easy pickings in regards jobs were over - for the time being. |
Yeah, lots of people in Tokyo are worried, esp since we had the water scare recently. There will prolly be a lot of people hired overseas, that will simply decline the offer.
Plus there hasn't been too much turn over since 2007, due to the econ. So a lot of those people too are prolly decided it is high time to leave.
What South Korea exodus are you talking about? Haven't followed it too much to be honest.[/quote]
Not an exodus but rather an influx. True story, I was with GEPIK which was the organization that places teachers in public schools around Seoul and in March 2009 - the leader of GEPIK introduced the 'TALK programme' to us at a conference and urged us to tell anyone we knew about the joys of working in Korea because GEPIK were always short of recruits.
Around about May that year, I was looking at living in Gangwondo - which is the sticks - a rural posting with eight weeks vacation and traditionally a place where they could not attract good teachers for love, money or extra vacation - I fancied eight weeks vacation so I contacted a well known recruiter who dealt with Gangwondo and he wrote back to tell me that they have filled all the positions - flabbergasted I was.
And over the summer of 2009 - it was the biggest influx of teachers to come to Korea. It was amazing, the speed it happened, within four months, they were crying out for anyone to come over and the situation turned upside it's head and it was because of the recession in the states.
My point is, even though most of us at the conference thought we were sitting pretty and safe in our jobs, a huge change was happening right under our noses and no-one really was prepared for it until it actually happened. I think with Japan it is going to be the same - people are leaving and newbies are going to stop coming over and there will be this big chasm - and it will only be apparent when there is a chronic shortage of teachers and there are a load of Japan adverts on Dave's. We won't know the damage next week or even next month but in three months time it will be interesting to see the affects on Japanese ESL. |
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Dark Machine
Joined: 30 Oct 2010
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Location: Liverpool, UK
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I hope so. I really want to work in Japan, and the disaster hasn't deterred me one little bit, if anything it's made me more resolute. But because I'm abroad, there's been no luck for me in getting hired. I was just going to get a WHV when the disaster happened (had all the paperwork and a train to the Embassy booked for the Monday). Now though...well I've been offered work in China, and am tempted to take it for the experience. Japan is where I want to be though. Ah I don't know. The last few weeks have been frustrating and confusing. |
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wiganer
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| Dark Machine wrote: |
I hope so. I really want to work in Japan, and the disaster hasn't deterred me one little bit, if anything it's made me more resolute. But because I'm abroad, there's been no luck for me in getting hired. I was just going to get a WHV when the disaster happened (had all the paperwork and a train to the Embassy booked for the Monday). Now though...well I've been offered work in China, and am tempted to take it for the experience. Japan is where I want to be though. Ah I don't know. The last few weeks have been frustrating and confusing. |
If you want to go to Japan then probably now going into the next few months is your best chance of getting something decent. Japan is a fantastic place, one of my favourite places. With China, there are so many opportunities and so many positions that a job in China will always be there but living in Japan is less stressful than China I have found. (present circumstances excluded) Japan is your love so my advice is to get your WHV and hit the ground because you will find something and it will be what you want rather than a comprimise. |
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