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[coledavis]

A lot of people ask how to find work in Russia, especially as the only advertisements are often just the usual suspects. This is how to do it.

You will find more schools by researching in Russian - don't worry, you can do this without technical or linguistic expertise, just use Rustran, PROMT or Babelfish (all easily found online) to translate a simple search term such as 'language school in Moscow' into Russian and then copy the phrase into a search engine. Re search engine: Google will work, although you might also want to paste your search into the Russian search engines Yandex.com and Rambler.ru Once you have found the web sites, you can read them in (rough) English by either pasting the URL into Google and then using the 'translate' function or pasting it into Babelfish.

Once you find a school's website, you can then try to work out if they are likely to take an interest in native speakers. Brush up your cv/resume and prepare to spend money on follow-up phone calls. (Although there are are discount phone utiliities out there, using prefix numbers. Again, look on the internet.)

[zdlerner]

I wish that I had looked into more options, but it's very hard to tell about these thigns olin. But don't make the same mistake I did and try to work for the British Educational Centre BEC in Moscow or Krasnodar. They are incredibly disorganised, the majority of the staff speaks little to no English, they shuffle your between schools and apartments, can barely keep a regular weeekly class schedule, and WORST OF ALL, they have NO sense of how vulnerable foreign teachers feel in what is actually a fairly xenophobic country where there are few froreigners.

[cheekygal]

Or simply install Google Chrome which has a translation option