And one more thing. It sounds like just about no counseling program focuses a lot on college counseling and the counselors I know say you're pretty much on your own to learn about it. There's a UCLA program for college counseling but no one says anything very good about it.

I've worked with some counselors who got their degree and certification from Goddard College and they spoke highly of it. I think you have to do a long internship but you don't have to be on campus much and you can get a license at the end.

Gmail can be spotty at times without a VPN. Astrill gets both good and bad reviews. Express VPN doesn't do a good job with tougher connections and needs good infrastructure to work and is overall slower than others. Vypr works well and has good tech support. Strong is good but can be a bit behind in updating. A lot of the smaller companies aren't worth your time since they don't update very well.

First off, if your qualifications and personal qualities meet institutional priorities for the position. Even if you're a strong candidate but not a match you won't get on the shortlist. You might reach the "maybe" list if you otherwise seem strong as a backup candidate.

Second it's a combination of depth of experience as well as good references. There's a lot of play on depth of experience. If it's short but a clear match then good references and a good interview will help you. If you have good references from someone known and trusted by a member of the recruiting team it's a major plus.

If budget is a concern, how much do you cost? Trailing spouse and/or dependents? You can still be shortlisted but others may be higher on the list.

Then it's what else can you add in terms of extracurriculars and other elements of school ife. After that it comes down to the interview.

There is usually a spoken or unspoken profile for each candidate that many applicants don't take into account. Don't take it personally if you're a qualified candidate but not the right match.

For countries where teachers can still get a work visa/permit over 55+ a strong teacher in that range is viable. In a shortage area extremely viable. As in many situations, it comes down to qualification and the overall shape of a school's recruiting season.

I guess Search no longer cares if their candidates can't spell or proofread.

And you're not an SA candidate. At all.

Completely agree. Cupcakes would hold at minimum the same veracity as your "data." They'd also taste better, too.

Psyguy's posts make sense when you replace the word "speculation" for "data" in them. Really.

Yadda yadda yadda data. Blah blah blah data.

Funny how you never actually provide any or point to any.

Your insistence that you are correct is substantiated solely by your insistence.

So in other words you have no hard data.

Thames Pirate is right. You have overstated (as usual) while hiding behind non-existent data that you refer to as if it's received truth.

It's really said that so many people become convinced that international teaching is the world you erroneously describe. You do, however, let people to see just about the worst of it. Too bad you don't care about the best.

Rubbish. Please provide the hard data that contradicts the significant number of teachers I know who have found jobs in schools ranging from the hardest to get hired by to the easiest who are at minimum in their late 50's. It's just not true. At all.

As word salad goes, nice job but I hope you cook better than you write.

As a reasoned response, your being in a corner is showing.

It's interesting (in a small sort of way) Psyguy, how you hide behind being unable to reason when presented with ideas that disagree with yours. If you cannot see a connection between stereotyping and prejudice, well...

And as for your not caring well, again, it's nothing new.

Psyguy wrote:

"Prejudice and stereotypes are not identical. Dont all subjects have racial, gender, religious content?"

No one said they were identical. If you cannot make a connection between the two, you should not hold a job that requires at least a high school diploma. If you think that such a statement is a sufficient ducking of your original assertion, then you're more craven than I thought. It's astonishing how often your commentary indicates that you have great difficulty empathizing with others. Based on your content over the years, it's hard not to assume only the worst intentions about your desire to be involved in education.

PsyGuy wrote in a previous post in this thread:

"How do you think a stereotype becomes a stereotype, by generally being accurate."

Please tell me that you don't teach subject matter related to racial, religious, gender, or any kind of prejudice.

Beyond reprehensible.