psyguy
so you are saying it is possible to get into these schools, Japan, american etc if i get excellent results...?
but surely because English is not an in demand subject, a school is much more likely to give the job to someone who can prove they get good resluts for AP, rather than can prove good results for IB, cos there are so many of us in the pool, so to speak.

jessie james , starting slary in UK for new teachers is a poor US 33k (2200 pounds) then you have 25% taken off!

Hi

has anyone got any optimistic stories of yourself or people you know who got hired who were single mothers?

I need some positive thinking, and a silver lining , that I won't have to stay forever at my current school!

...after senidng out around 35 applications and having a few interviews (around 6) and doing well in a few of them..., stil no job offer apart from a tier 3 school, which offered half my current salary , no KG at the school for my daugher (so extra money needed for KG elsewhere), and they agreed that I couldn't live on the salary with a child. They knew about the husband situation, but not the kid, I told after the offer of emplyment.I thought I mentioned last year when I also interviewed with this particular school.
This is my second year of applying for jobs. I apply independantly, as I don't think I would get invited to job fairs and I only want SE Asia. I am sure my referees are tired of sending references for the second year running! especially when many are send out automatically from the naughty schools.

I cannot confirm having 1 dependent is the reason ( but obviously yes it is) , but when it comes to that question, - any dependants? I have to role out my story...me and daughter only, but my husband will join us in the future independently (which is true), but at the moment we are based in different countries. he is not a teacher.
I emphasise that I will be taking a nanny to the shcools...

has anyone got lucky and landed good jobs?

shadowjack said : he school was pulled from fairs last year by Search, visited by many of its accreditation agencies, lost most of its continuing staff from previous years after firing the head, deputy, two admins and a bunch of other teachers and instituting pretty much direct control by the daughter of the owner of Sinarmas Group. Beware.


I did hear they had lost IB status, but has now been reinstated.
I suppose it depends whose spin you hear. an ex-colleague of mine, who is there now, says things quite differently, - he says they got rid of people who wanted money, but not prepared to put the work in or stick to deadlines. he loves it there, been there since August. I am trying just trying to find different views. i take all with a pinch f salt. thanks to all and for anymore comments that may come.

Does anyone know what is going on in this school now? they have vacancies, for 2015. II heard it improved, once the paul sebastian left...

but now? i am hearing bad things again...like they really monitor your personal/ outside school behaviour and the management is not eficient ..

does anyone know anything.
thank you

thanks for answers, ...

i am not sure it is the official policy on search, but i read yesterday, through other posts on here, that another candidate got told cos of her/his situation, single parent, they would not register her...
then there was the other case, that shadowjack , you replied lots to , the uS couple, with none teaching spouse, who got turned down...now they have secured a great job.

yes, perhaps it is just depends on the country. In Indonesia I guess the schools don't worry as much about family support, cos we all have nanny's but ofcourse moving somewhere like singapore, they would be wary, as cannot afford a nanny and no support.

well I think saying the least personal info is favourable!

Unfortunately i am not a sought after subject area! English, I am afraid

Hi after applying to a few schools,last year and currenty, then having read this forum, I feel quite disheartened, yet enlightened…

I have not registered with any agency as I am only really looking in 4-5 countries, Singapore, Indonesia (where I am now), Malaysia, Japan and at a push Vietnam. So I don't really see the point. As I can look online at the schools myself.

Now when I apply to schools should I make it clear that my husband is not joining me? Keep quiet, unless they ask…?
The situation is this I live in Jakarta and work at an Int School, he lives in Japan. There are no IS in the area that he lives, so I continue to stay here. He visits me on his holidays and I visit his on my holidays, we have been doing this for 2 years and it is just fine. I am quite happy with the arrangement. One day if the right job came along for him, in the right country, we hope he would move to be with us.

Are people really put off the fact that I appear to be a single mum? Would schools/ agency prefer me to be a a) married mum, who has husband separate in another country? B) A single mum or C) say he will be a trailing spouse, which he won’t as he will look for a job in his area of work.
Yesterday I filled in CIS application and I believe I said he wold not be joining us, which he won't probably for a few years.
Just read also on a forum thread that Search is ‘no longer accepting applications from single teaching candidate with dependents’.
So no point trying to join there.

any advice or pointers on best way to secure a job and above sit.

thanks a lot