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jiangsu
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 Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 10:24 am Post subject: Hiring Season |
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I have heard that 'Hiring Season' is April. Is it worth waiting until then to seriously consider jobs? Do most of the best jobs only become available then?
Or in your opinion, is it worth applying at all times as you may have less competition for jobs at other times? |
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tommchone
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| Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 10:50 am Post subject: |
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| I have had job offers at all times of the year. I've been TOLD that most of the spring term hiring goes on in October, I don't know about the fall term. |
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Chris_Crossley
Joined: 26 Jun 2004
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Location: Still in the centre of Furnace City, PRC, after eight years!!!
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| Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 11:14 am Post subject: Hiring goes on all the year round in China |
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| For many TEFL jobs in China, hiring occurs virtually all the year round, especially at private chain language schools like EF English First, for which I worked for my first two years in this country, since it does not go by school or academic years in the conventional sense by being open all the year round, closing only for designated national government holidays. |
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LouisianaCajun
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| Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Is it true that most of the recruiting for universities for the Spring semester has already taken place? I am hoping to land a job at a public University for the spring semester, but the job boards I have visited aren't chock full of ads...most of the ads are for language schools. |
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happigur1
Joined: 25 Jul 2009
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Location: USA
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| Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 12:40 am Post subject: |
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| For spring semester, most hiring is starting now (Nov.Dec.) for a February start. With that said, there aren't as many opening as for Fall semester. Not as many teachers leaving... |
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HaveAGoodRest
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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You can get an ESL job in China whenever you want. Especially if you're willing to venture outside of places like Shanghai, Beijing, etc. where there's more "competition" for jobs. (I use quotes cuz the competition isn't really rough at all).
When I left my old school, they had 25 Native English-teacher vacancies and one working teacher from a country that spoke English as a 1st language. |
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MDDude
Joined: 15 Apr 2008
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Location: Maryland, United States
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 5:04 am Post subject: Re: Hiring goes on all the year round in China |
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| Chris_Crossley wrote: |
| For many TEFL jobs in China, hiring occurs virtually all the year round, especially at private chain language schools like EF English First, for which I worked for my first two years in this country, since it does not go by school or academic years in the conventional sense by being open all the year round, closing only for designated national government holidays. |
I've seen English First advertise jobs in Shanghai. I just finished my CELTA in Bangkok and am considering going to China for work. How is EF? Since you stayed with them for two years, I suppose they couldn't have been that bad... |
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Chris_Crossley
Joined: 26 Jun 2004
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Location: Still in the centre of Furnace City, PRC, after eight years!!!
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 8:35 am Post subject: Re: Hiring goes on all the year round in China |
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| MDDude wrote: |
| How is EF? Since you stayed with them for two years, I suppose they couldn't have been that bad... |
Not that bad, no, but they were two years that I had to tough out, what with the first school director / center manager being so incompetent and a sycophant (always crawling to the big guy who sponsored his appointment) that he eventually had to go and what with the second center manager being such a control freak that he made a virtual nonsense out of my job as a so-called "acting" director of studies for 11 whole months by giving the impression that he could run the whole place, including the academic side, all by himself! Thankfully, I stopped working for EF in Wuhan (there was only the one franchisee in the city then) in early October '03.
In its defence, I would say that the teaching experience was actually quite good, such that I was confident enough to make my next full-time year-long gig in Wuhan one at a state-run primary school, where I had a pretty good time. Teaching the kids was quite a pleasurable experience for me at both EF and the primary school, but I essentially turned my back on teaching kids when I secured my current full-time post in January '05 and I have been teaching adults exclusively since then. Not only that, but also the pay is much, much better where I am now.
Different people do have different experiences of teaching at EF, and there appears to have been, over the years, no shortage of stories by posters who have expressed disillusionment and disaffection with EF, with which they would undoubtedly have had a torrid time, but there are positive stories to be had, too. It is just that there haven't been too many of the latter on the forum when compared to the horror stories. |
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