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[travelNteach]

@phis, yeah usually we see pretty much eye to eye, yet just different enough to keep it interesting.

@ transpective......... if u delay, it basically means a year from now. and i am not sure that u would get on with a nationalplus right out of the gates, ususally u have to network your way in. pay your dues at a language school for a year or 2 while u make the right connections.

[chezal]

I'd have to agree with Phis that it's still possible to find work during Ramahdan.

I started my first ever teaching job in Indonesia in the middle of Ramahdan back in 2004. It was nice having a one week holiday only a few weeks into my contract

[Flicka]

For what little it may be worth, the other bule at my current school started just before Lebaran holiday, literally a couple of days before.

But that's just one place, one experience...

Good luck!

[travelNteach]

wow, i didnt say that no one ever gets hired during ramahdan, just that it is a low hiring time. being that ramahdan is a fluid holiday (every 12th moon?) there are bound to be teachers whose contracts will be ending during that time period and will need to be replaced. the op asked about best times, i merely pointed out that this is not the best time to be looking for a job. i did nto say IMPOSSIBLE, just harder.

[extradross]

Are jobs available during/around the ramadan time?....absolutely, with EF but then they always are. Going back to the original question posted by this newcomer and partly in response to 'the nip' who suggests my views are to be ignored while he/she obviously doesn't know his/her arse from his/her elbow based upon their contributions to threads so far-I stand by my views about the whole CELTA/Trinity programme. Took the course myself [and obtained the cert] over 10 years ago-'penickety' instructors and overbearing emphasis upon the ESA formula that allowed no room for spontaneity within the observed lessons. The students we 'practised' our teaching skills on were Kosovan/Albanian refugees whose presence in the classroom was 'monitored' by an outside official, the classroom was contrived because both teacher/students behavour was partly determined or rather influenced by external forces.
CELTA-'Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults'- I made my way to Korea as my first destination and found everything I had 'learned' on the course to be of little practical use in a Korean Hogwan enviroment teaching kiddies. How's this relevant? Well for anybody who is considering joining EF for their first teaching gig your classes will consist mainly of young kids/older kids/ teenagers-so in terms of training/preparation CELTA is the wrong course really.....with regards to the possibility of the original poster applying for International Schools, well if they have the 'couple of years experience' that seems to be disregarded by some here, and that experience includes on the job training/ development/ evidence of achievement then I would say go ahead and apply.