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[originaluhtee]

Hi Everyone,

I'm very interested in getting a job teaching English in Bologna starting next September. I have a CELTA-equivalent certificate (I got a very good grade in the course), I'm a native U.S. English speaker, I have a university degree, two solid English-teaching related references, and I have a year and a half of experience teaching English.

I really want to take a temporary job vounteering in Italy this summer (ie trading work for food and accommodation), which would mean leaving my current job (in Ireland) and moving to Italy. The rub is that I don't have tons of disposable income, and I'm just trying to gauge how easy it will actually be to find a job in Bologna given my qualifications if I'm already sending out tons of CVs now. In short, is leaving my job in Ireland right now a leap into the void?

Thanks for any advice!!!

Diego

[Jetgirly]

I think the most important thing is whether or not you can already work legally in Italy. Do you have EU citizenship? My school would hire any bum off the street that spoke English (despite advertising that all teachers were qualified), but they regularly turned down well-qualified non-EU applications because they couldn't be assed to sponsor their visas. My school had fifteen English teachers. Two of us were North Americans but we both held EU citizenship.

Most of the people I knew who worked illegally ended up getting screwed out of a lot of money by their employers.

[originaluhtee]

Yeah, I'm an Italian citizen.