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Yawarakaijin
Joined: 20 Jan 2006
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Location: Middle of Nagano
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If you have 3 years experience teaching in your home country you can qualify for a specialist in humanites visa. I do not have a 4 year degree yet I applied for and got a job offer from Canada (through daves I might add) You must be able to prove 3 years experience.
Now some have suggested that I got lucky. I really dont know about that. A company offered me the job, I proved my 3 years experience just as the government outlines in their requirements for a Specialist in Humanities visa and I was hired from Canada.
That being said, most job offers ask prospects to have a 4 year degree so you may need to get lucky finding a potential employer who is also aware of the requirements for the Specialist in Humanites visa. |
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Glenski
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 3:13 am Post subject: |
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If you are Canadian, you can get a working holiday visa. No degree required. However, you will get taxed 20% on your earnings, and you can only work here for a year.
That's about it, traveller, from what I gather of your experience. You have not told us just what your "experience" entails, so we can't help you any more than that. Like Paul wrote, if you have 3 or more years of teaching experience, you CAN get the work visa without a degree. |
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PAULH
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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Location: Western Japan
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:26 am Post subject: |
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| So from what i gather, i will not be sponsered in japan without a university degree despite my teaching experience and CELTA degree. Is this correct? And if so, i guess that s it for going to japan. Thanks. |
Traveller.
A CELTA does not qualify you for a work visa. Experience does not qualify you unless you have three years worth. Quit feeling sorry for yourself as you dont meet the immigration requirements.
I cant work in Canada unless I can get a work visa no matter how much experience I have, the same rules apply. |
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yamanote senbei
Joined: 28 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 7:16 am Post subject: Re: jobs without degree |
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| Sh-it hits the fan and they wonder what hit them and then the union or whoever has to clean up the mess. |
The way things are now, and they way they seem to be going, Japan isn't that attractive of a place to come to work even if you have a are working there legally. Working illegally just multiplies the problems. |
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PAULH
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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Location: Western Japan
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 7:37 am Post subject: Re: jobs without degree |
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| yamanote senbei wrote: |
The way things are now, and they way they seem to be going, Japan isn't that attractive of a place to come to work even if you have a are working there legally. Working illegally just multiplies the problems. |
Teaching in Japan is the same to white foreigners here as to what migrant labor is in the US and apple picking in Australia.
Falling wages, few benefits. Zilch career prospects and requires low skills. Its an overseas work program for mainly unemployed university graduates.
Even universities now are hiring part time dispatch teachers with Bachelors degrees from ECC on 10,000 yen a day. |
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yamanote senbei
Joined: 28 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 7:40 am Post subject: Re: jobs without degree |
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| PAULH wrote: |
| Even universities now are hiring part time dispatch teachers with Bachelors degrees from ECC on 10,000 yen a day. |
I wonder how many of those Bachelors degrees were bought on Khao San Road. |
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