7 tips for getting a great job worldwide

1. 7 tips for getting a great job worldwide

6. Objective • To provoke some thought and discussion • To encourage you to grasp with two hands the opportunity that may change your life • To provide you with information, resources and advice that will assist you to get a teaching job overseas

7. Starter for 10 • Previous overseas employment experiences? • Teaching • Child-related activities • Other • What? Where? Why? When? How? • Highlights? • Low points?

8. Tip #1: Make your job work for you • Destination • Where have you always wanted to go? • Training and development • What knowledge/experience/skills are going to help you in your future career? • Great opportunity to learn a foreign language • Life experience • What would you like to achieve before ‘settling down’?

9. Teaching in the French Alps

10. Tip #2: Work out your USP What attributes do you have that schools want? • Great subject knowledge? • Amazing communication skills? • Extensive corporate experience? • The willingness to do boarding-house duty? • National-level sport achievements? • Incredible academic credentials? • A sense of ‘different’?

11. What characterises your teaching?

12. What do you love? • Travel • Food and wine • Climbing • Bush-walking • Skiing • SCUBA diving • History

13. Teaching in Paris

14. Tip #3: Market yourself accordingly • Why don’t Doctors have to advertise? • Most chance of success when your USP = a potential employer’s (clients’) needs • Your ‘marketing documents’ have to reflect (and emphasise) your USP • Key points on a CV

15. Teaching in New Zealand

16. Tip #4: Network • Before you go • Who do you know there? • Who do you know who’s been there? • Who can help you find out more? • Once you arrive • Continue to network – get ‘face time’ • Join a club • Go out of your way to be sociable

17. Use an agency • www.twrecruitment.com (2001) • “Provides recruitment services to the education and social work industries” (519 current UK jobs) • www.sanzateaching.com (1999) • “recruit teachers from around the globe to work in both private and government schools and nurseries throughout the UK” • www.smartteachers.co.uk • “the best little recruitment agency for school teaching jobs throughout the UK” (116 current UK jobs) • www.anzukteachers.com.au (2003) • “find teaching jobs in London and all over England for earnest, enthusiastic teachers” (75 current UK jobs)

18. Others • Other UK • www.tda.gov.uk/ (training and development agency for schools) • www.schoolswebdirectory.co.uk (Local Education Authorities) • Worldwide • www.teachaway.com/ (global teacher placement authority) • www.search-associates.com/ (as above)

19. Teaching in Australia

20. Tip #5:Be flexible and open-minded • Day-to-day CRT or contract? • Guaranteed work • No surprises: travel, staff, students… • Paid holidays • More relevant to your career, therefore… • Improved future job prospects

21. Be flexible and open-minded • There’s often a trade off… • You may not get your preferred method • You may have to work in a different city • You may have to work long or unsociable hours • You may be allocated chores you would prefer not to do

22. Teaching in the Caribbean

23. Tip #6:Know the local conditions • Timing • When are there most job opportunities? • Application process • Is there a central agency? • Registration • Is your VIT registration/degree sufficient? • Pay • Can you afford to live on your earnings?

24. Comparative pay

25. Teaching in Canada

26. Tip #7: Have a back-up plan • Why? • You may get sick/robbed/fired • You may not enjoy where you are • You may not find (enough) work • You may run out of money

27. Teaching in Hong Kong

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