I used an Ichrio, and many, many recruiters said it was one of the best that they had seen. A folder with our picture and certs/degrees on the front, then our resumes, letters of ref, ect inside the folder. Spoke to a director of a very tier one school who shall remain nameless who loved it, and saw many recruiters with it in their hands looking at it and commenting about it. Spend the money, go to a professional printer, and get a good one done. Saw lots of resumes with pics paper clipped/stapled to a single piece of paper, and to be honest, they looked blase. Also, like many others, saw a lot of people under dressed or dressed in a way that would be unacceptable in many countries, especially the ME and Africa.
Went to the round robin, declined seven interview requests as we had interviews the day before the fair with a school that was one of our top choices and actually signed the contract during the round robin.
Hints-
Dress well for gods sake, jeans, or god forbid, denim vests do not do it for anyone! I wore a tie of course, nice slacks, good shirt, and nice shoes. The wife was in a nice longish dress and top with wrap, we felt comfortable and not to dressed up, or under dressed.
PAY THE MONEY TO HAVE A GRAPHIC ARTIST OR PRINTER DO UP YOUR RESUME! Cannot stress this enough!

Dave you are so what is the word I am looking for, dense. Hell many schools in the US are filled with ell learners. Give it up I trapped you and you took the bait. Every international school is filled with ell learners. That is the whole point of the word "international".
There are no teachers with kids at my school, our average teacher age is slightly out of that demographic but many in a Yangon do have kids and from the parents I know they seem happy with it. We have no kids but domestic help is cheap and of good quality. We are very happy with our maid for example and the people I know who have kids here pay pennies for nannies. Most people we know are very happy with there child care. You see Dave this is how it works. One talks about things they actually have experience with rather than trolling TIE and school websites and pretending we know everything first hand. In regards to reading for three years and not posting well I just never felt the need too. I just wanted to see if you were as smart as you want everyone to think you are. Rest assured you are not. L

Wow had to use your powers to find that, amazing how a school in the UK would have a majority of English speakers. Have you ever really worked in an international school by the way? Just a question, and are we going to be at this all day? I set you a trap, you fell head first into it Dave, just admit it and be gone. I have been reading your drivel for three years now. Living in a dictatorship is safe actually, for expats. No street crime at all. Lets run down a list of 1st tier, as you like to call them, schools where most of the students are technically ELL
NIST
ISB
WAB
SAS
SAS (Shanghai)
Kaust
AISB
AISD
AISD
AA Moscow
CAS
RAS
ACST
ISB-Belgrade
CAC
WBAIS

The list is endless. Every international school has mostly ELL learners, even though most may have near native fluency, they are still ELL learners.

and of course the administration staff is local. They are almost always, you think there is a secretary/administrative assistant fair for IS's? And dictatorships are usually very safe, for expats. And please show me a school in the international world where the majority of students are native speakers of English.

how could you possibly know anything about my school at all? Have you been here? Have you called? Have you met my kids? And in return how do you know anything about me and my qualifications? You are a simpelton

If you think I was bullying, you should go back and read some of Psy Guys posts. Erroneous, sexist, and mostly wrong information from a supposed expert on literally every international school on the planet. After all this gibberish he has spewed I was just curious to hear what he had to say about a school he knows nothing about.
Walter, would love to meet up in Iowa, if your an admin, it wont be hard to figure out who we are from where we both work, just look for our resumes under our qualifications and see that we are the only two people from YA that are there. I am going to hit you up for that beer!
Living in Myanmar-well it has its ups and downs. Cost of living is rising fast but if you are fairly frugal, its still pretty cheap. For me, the toughest part is it is hard to get out of the city. Poor transportation, bad roads, ect. We do love it here but want something different. Food is ok, oily, but there are some great things as well. Very culturally diverse in terms of religions, ethnicities. Good social life as an expat.
The bad-Internet is horrible, but getting better. Very slow though. Lots of poverty. Electricity and water shortages in the hot season, though ISM puts people in buildings with generators. It is an exciting place though, rapid changes. Very very safe, except for the large amounts of feral dogs! Very little native on westerner crime, although that is rising. Health care is not the best. IF you have medical issues I would not come.
Lots of vacation opportunities outside of the country, you have to leave every 70 days for visa purposes so many trips to Bangkok. Limited number of flights to other places though. BKK is an hour away by air. We are glad we came when we did.
ISM-IF you need a job, you could do worse. It is a huge school, lots of teachers, most of whom I know, who are good people. I have been in the Elementary school and high school and they are nice facilities for Burma. ISM provides decent PD, I have been to some of their workshops. You should understand though they have lots of turnover year on year, the housing provided is not the best, but there is a shortage of western type housing available in Yangon so all schools suffer from that. There are reviews of the paid portion of this site, which I have read, and mirror many of the comments that I have heard from teachers who work there, but as I do not, I will not really comment on them but encourage you to read them before committing. Keep in mind, as all schools in Burma, bar one (ISY), it is a for profit school which means that is the key motive.
In terms of package, they get more per year on paper in salary, but are also taxed, get less visa money, ie my school pays for me to go to BKK, airfare and hotels, but they, ISM, only pay for the visa. They have a high insurance deductible compared to mine. That is about all that I think I should say about the school, because again, I do not work there.
Yangon is a decent two year post, especially if you want to travel in SE Asia. But keep in mind it is VERY early in the year yet, most schools have not had letters of intent from teachers yet, for once PSY Guy is right on that point. Have you thought of the UNI Fair instead of Search? I personally like it much better, it is not for profit, and a great mix of schools, from the high flyers like Singapore American to the third tier.

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 4:32 am Post subject: Comment Reply with quote
Its a third tier school, and its in Myanmar, which has some safety/security issues. Its really a local school with an international (American) curriculum, specifically its a bilingual school. Meaning its an ESL school using a western academic program as the vehicle of english instruction.

Actually, kind of correct, except for the safety security info which is an out and out lie, unless you live in the border areas. Yangon is by far the safest city I have lived in, out of many. Lots of feral dogs though. Thing is military dictatorships are known for being safe.

The students are OK, on the entitled side, but they are respectful. Administration is mostly local. They want to be big and you can feel that.
The workload is pretty easy, few outside hours, and EL proficiency is going to be a bar to really complex difficult concepts, so you dont have to work or prep very hard.

We have one admin. He is very white, from Colorado. There is no other, so, lie. We dont want to be big, we are stuffed to the gills. How can you feel that PSY Idiot?
We are required to do spend LOTS of time on extra curricular things. Again, I actually work here so I know! If you dont work or prep hard in an ESOL school your screwed, another lie. My kids speak way better English than others I have taught, and have better grammar, and spelling than PSY idiot, and myself.

The money isnt great, but if you were new and just wanting to get some international experience the package is Ok (its better then an EL teaching position). Your not going to leave much more competitive then when you go in.
Actually the package is great for Yangon. Biggest housing allowance outside of ISY for sure. Health insurance is worlds better than YIS, ISM, or MISY, MIS.
I am MUCH more competitive than when I started here by the way.

Just wanted to see what this idiot would say about a place I currently work at, and know for a fact he has never been.
Walter, you offered to interview PSY idiot for laughs, the wife and I will be at UNI, MS/HS Social Studies and Elementary, can we interview with you for an actual, serious, position, in other words, not for laughs?

Actually Walter, its funny. I work at Yangon Academy now. In fact, I am sitting in my room at this very moment. I just wanted to see what he was going to say about it. He gets all of this information from websites and TIE ads don't you know! Local admin? Wonder what he would say if he saw my 6'3 inch tall Colorado native principal, the only one we have. Native admin my butt. Every thing else was just drivel he gets from our website and our ad on TIE. Thanks for blowing it for me buddy! I set him a trap, and he was about to fall right into it.

have you been to the school? How did you come by all of this information?

Can you tell me a little about this school Psy Guy? You know so much about so many, hope you can shed a light for me.