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[roywebcafe]

I have 4 years Pre-CELTA experience and now after finishing the course last March I am told by employers in Poland that they want someone with at least six months Post CELTA experience!!! My first qualification was an online TEFL certifciate - I took the CELTA to improve my chances, seems the opposite has happened!!

Since then have only had 3 weeks at a summer school in UK.

Bloody annoying

[simon_porter00]

it's safe to say the school is speaking total and utter shhhwaddy waddy (don't want to fall foul of trying to circumvent the swear filter again).

I can guarantee you now, if you come to Warsaw a school will snap you up provided you're willing to work for a certain amount. Probably something like 40zł for 45 min net, which isn't too ridiculous. After a year of hat you should be able to bump that up nicely with privates and then when you'e been here a while word of mouth promotion will get you better paying gigs.

[dynow]

it's true.

enough with the qualification woes. this is Poland. you're looking for an ESL job, not a director's position in a Fortune 500 company.

there's this fear with many newbies that they need to load up on all these courses and qual.'s out of fear that they will land themselves in a strange country, not know the language, get stranded and not find work, forcing them to leave and head back home. i can respect that, but all it really takes in Poland is a good positive attitude, some motivation and at the very least a mild display of professionalism and you'll land yourself a job in any major city if you're a native speaker.

6 months post CELTA experience?! (I'd love to insert some random british phrase right now synonymous with "that's ridiculous!", such as Mr. Porter's "Schwaddy Waddy" but I don't want to embarrass myself.)

i guess I'll use something American, straight from the ghetto....

Boy, you must be trippin'!!!

i can guarantee that their pay rate certainly doesn't compare to their qualification demands. forget that school.

I came to Poland with nothing more than a college diploma and a TESOL certificate that most people on this forum would laugh at and use on themselves when they ran out of toilet paper, and I had a job in under 2 weeks. I know 2 other Americans living here that don't have anything more than a college diploma and they picked up work just as fast.

[roywebcafe]

Thanks for encouragement. But i did visit Krakow in June and visited no less than 14 schools. Despite the heat and every school bar one being on the 3rd or 4th floor. Nobody employed me. Most said try again Sept or they would keep me on file until then. Not heard anything back since!

I even emailed 25 odd schools in krakow with same result.

[roywebcafe]

Its international house that told me they wanted 6 months post CELTA experience. *beep*!

[justflyingin]