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twilightstar83 · Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 10 Location: Seoul, South Korea

hi i will have 6 months experience teaching in Asia and a TESOL (plus teaching practice). Where can I look for jobs in Moscow, St. Petesberg and Kiev (those are my 3 top choices)...I have seen many in Moscow, but nothing for Kiev yet (is Kiev cheaper to live in?)

canucktechie · Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 343 Location: Moscow

The reason that you don't see any job postings for Kiev is that there are way fewer jobs than people who want to work there.

Kiev is cheaper than Moscow (particularly for housing), but the wages are even lower so you're worse off there than in Moscow.

Apart from this board, try tefl.com for job postings.

ecocks · Joined: 06 Nov 2007 Posts: 899 Location: Gdansk, Poland

There are jobs here. But the market is extremely disorganized and there are a lot of "schools" vying for the business. When you are ready to look for work in Kyiv, just send your CV to the main 6 or 8 schools and see who is hiring. The scenery is great and the life, for most of us, is pretty satisfying.

By the way, April is a really bad time to try and start. Most operations here slow down for the summer time and new hires start the next year in late August or early September.

Nexus · Joined: 08 Mar 2004 Posts: 189 Location: Moscow

You could pretty much walk into a job in Moscow. Check around different employers though, rather than just the big schools and that they will arrange a work / teacher's visa for you.

My only advice would be to avoid EF. (You can never be sure that that goes without saying)

canucktechie · Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 343 Location: Moscow

I'm not so sure about that. That's just the time when the regular courses start to end at the schools, their salaried employees begin working less than full time, and hourly teachers are let go.

Really the job situation doesn't pick up until September.

rusmeister · Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Posts: 867 Location: Russia

Canucktechie's right. That's the worst imaginable time to come. Russians do not, repeat, do not, want to study in the summer.

maruss · Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 1145 Location: Cyprus

Absolutely Rusmeister!Nobody in Russia is interested in much more than their holiday abroad(if they have the money!) or their dacha etc!From May to September there is very little work unless you are lucky enough to be offered a summer camp teaching job or find a few private clients in Moscow etc. who are not going anywhere and want to continue their lessons.But your landlord will not let you off the rent,nor will the shops give you any free food etc!Experienced freelancers know that what they earn must be divided by 12 if they are staying a year or more!