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hensley · Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 1 Location: japan

hi everyone,

im heading to mexico next year around june or july to start looking for a job........ is that too early? should i wait until august. right now im in japan. ive been teaching here for about 4 years. i am also half finished with my masters in tesol and will be finished prior to going to mexico. ill be looking for job in a university or other high quality institute. i am pretty flexible about location, but would like to avoid mexico city. any advice by people with experience would be greatly appreciated.

thanks alot,
michael

lozwich · Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 1536

Hiya,

I arrived in Mexico in late August this year. I now work at a university, but I was the last to be hired, as it seemed the initial job advertisement went out in June. Semester starts around August/September, so I'd suggest arriving a little earlier than that.

But, since I'm a relative newbie here, I'll throw it to the other more experienced folks. Smile

Good luck!

Lozwich.

Samantha · Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 2038 Location: Mexican Riviera

Absolutely, if you want a University job, you must come earlier. They hire teachers well ahead of the early or mid August start dates where I live. If you don't make it on time, you could find alternate employment and wait it out - you may have no choice.

b-boy · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 11:57 pm Post subject: Winter Semester ?

Howdy everyone,

I`d like to know if Universities do any hiring for the second semester? If so, when would one need to come and apply?

Thanks,

b-boy

Ben Round de Bloc · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 1946

Regarding university EFL jobs, I think a lot depends on location. At the university where I teach, there's very little turn-over. When a position does open up, it's usually very part time -- maybe 9 hours per week, which isn't even close to enough hours to live on -- and it's usually filled by some local before most people are even aware of the opening.

MELEE · Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 4:33 pm Post subject:

Many universities in Mexico do not have an intact of new students in the second semester. So openings are dependent on one of the teachers leaving. My university has a very open admissions policy--which is good in that it gives students a chance to study university, but bad because it means students who are not prepared for university level calculus and physics (we are an engineering school) end up failing out. So that means that we have fewer students in the second semester. So much so, that unless two or more teachers leave, we don't replace them until September.

Because we have only native speaker teachers, we do have teachers who have to leave for family emergancies in other countries. So ramdom openings do come up, these usually need to be filled on short notice.