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wintersweet · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 8:11 am Post subject: May/June hiring?

My TESOL certification program ends in mid-May. I figure this puts me at a big disadvantage, as I expect the field will be flooded with summer job-seekers, and it misses the April start date. Is it going to make things impossible?

I guess I could wait a few more weeks and see if any ads mention late May/early June start dates, but I'm getting nervous! Embarassed

I'm an overplanner at heart...

Thanks!

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

Sorry to burst your bubble, but there really aren't summer jobs in Japan for teaching. You might find an occasional summer camp for a couple of weeks, but you don't get visa sponsorship for them. May/June will be right after the April hiring, so it is the start of a fairly dead time. Not totally, though.

Planning ahead DOES help. Best of luck.

wintersweet · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 9:40 am Post subject:

Sorry, I worded that poorly. I don't want and am not looking for a summer job; I figured that in addition to the post-April slump, there would be more people heading to Japan from the US and elsewhere because it's the end of the college school year. Wink

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

Well, as I wrote, the odds of finding work go down after April, although they are not zero. Just read ads ahead of time and plan on beating the pavement hard!

This month, The Japan Times reported that the government is considering a (wacky in my opinion) change in immigration rules such that they would permit non-degreed university students to teach English on their summer breaks here. Not many details just yet, so keep reading TJT.