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vamanos12
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 Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 5:33 pm Post subject: Al Musannah-any improvement? |
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| I have read that Al Musannah has a bad rep, but any hope that things could improve come Fall. If you are someone that is easy going could you work there relatively unscathed? |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:52 am Post subject: |
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vamaonos... these recruiters are all much of a muchness. They all seem to have about the same numbers of happy and unhappy teachers. It all comes down to the conditions at the one you end up with... and your tolerance for the level of incompetence. Managements change at nearly the breakneck speed of the teacher turnover. So, a place that might be tolerable one year can be not tolerable the next year... and vice-versa.
These recruiter jobs are really a crapshoot... I advise people to look at them as a foot-in-the-door Gulf job. One can get a paycheck, experience with Arabic speakers if your CV is lacking that detail, and many use the spare time in some of these boring villages to work on an online MA.  But personally I would choose any Oman job over Saudi jobs. But that is me...
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Nolan Chance
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| Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 5:26 am Post subject: Re: Al Musannah-any improvement? |
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| I have read that Al Musannah has a bad rep, but any hope that things could improve come Fall. If you are someone that is easy going could you work there relatively unscathed? |
As VS says, the reputation of these colleges will be way out of date with how it is on the ground. But that's true for any organization.
How happy you will be there will depend on whether or not the HoD and others are prats. And how you get on will depend on their and the students concluding that you aren't a prat either. As in life itself, as you are so the world is.
By the way, what is is easy going for one person might seem uninterested and lazy to another. |
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vamanos12
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| Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 6:47 pm Post subject: yep |
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| Yeah...I think you have a point about what is easy going to one might seem sloppy to the next. During an interview with the school I put forward terms like "team player, easy going, etc..." things that seem positive in our culture, but I had this feeling that maybe these terms were being misinterpreted or that I was just digging the hole deeper and deeper. Cultural divide like the Grand Canyon. |
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