Hello
As a non-native English speaker, I’d like to know how marketable I am. I am engaged with american guy and our goal is to land at international school job together. We will get marry soon and start to apply this year for 2019 job opening.
Will HR accept my qualifications from Korea during the recruitment process?
I'm a bit nervous about my marketability especially as a non-native English speaker.
In your experience, will schools consider hiring both of us at international school?
We are considering schools mostly in Asia. (Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan or Malaysia)
[My fiance’s Qualification & Experiences]
-7 years at elementary school as a home room teacher (Korea)
-2 years at private institute (Korea)
-B.S. not related to education (USA)
-M.A TESOL (Korea)
-TEFL Certificate (Spain)
-Teacher Certification(K-6) (Ongoing) (USA, Teacher Ready)
[My Qualification & Experiences]
-7 years as an university librarian (Korea)
(4 years conducting library classes in English)
-1 year as a high school teacher librarian (Korea)
-B.A Education, Library & Information Science (Korea)
-MEd Educational Information System(Ongoing) (Korea)
-Primary & Secondary School Teacher Librarian license(Korea)
-Librarian license(Korea)
Thank you in advance for any advice you can give!
Need Career advice for aspiring teaching couple
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shadowjack
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Re: Need Career advice for aspiring teaching couple
Hi Ujin!
First off, if you can communicate in English as well as you write, you are employable. Your background and experience and license are also going to be invaluable.
Some schools might hesitate, but other schools are going to be very interested in you as bringing value to expand on their multi-culturalism in the school, plus your expertise and experience.
Your fiance's experience look good - but when you say "elementary school" do you really mean "elementary hagwon"? Or is that the private institute? Or were both authorised to teach Korean students within the K to 12 Korean school system/framework?
Either way, with his experience and his certification once he has it and your licensing and experience, you are viable candidates.
First off, if you can communicate in English as well as you write, you are employable. Your background and experience and license are also going to be invaluable.
Some schools might hesitate, but other schools are going to be very interested in you as bringing value to expand on their multi-culturalism in the school, plus your expertise and experience.
Your fiance's experience look good - but when you say "elementary school" do you really mean "elementary hagwon"? Or is that the private institute? Or were both authorised to teach Korean students within the K to 12 Korean school system/framework?
Either way, with his experience and his certification once he has it and your licensing and experience, you are viable candidates.
Re: Need Career advice for aspiring teaching couple
Hi @ shadowjack!
Thank you SO much for your words of encouragement. :D
Yeah, my fiance 's workplace is decent elementary school which provides G1-6 Korean school system with English immersion program.
Being an international educator is our lifelong goal, hope we can get the right job together.
Thank you SO much for your words of encouragement. :D
Yeah, my fiance 's workplace is decent elementary school which provides G1-6 Korean school system with English immersion program.
Being an international educator is our lifelong goal, hope we can get the right job together.
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shadowjack
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Re: Need Career advice for aspiring teaching couple
Hi Again,
That's awesome. He will need to make it very clear as some recruiters might think Hagwon.
I would say you two are very marketable for a decent Tier 2.
My advice would be (a) sign up for TIEonline.com - it is 39 dollars a year US and it has many jobs that are not on Search; and (b) contact Search, explain your situation to your chosen associate, and see if they will sign you up. Even if you do not go to a job fair, you will have access to a really good database that can cross-reference both your jobs to find schools with those openings, and give you information about the school that is very helpful.
Good luck to you both!
Shad
That's awesome. He will need to make it very clear as some recruiters might think Hagwon.
I would say you two are very marketable for a decent Tier 2.
My advice would be (a) sign up for TIEonline.com - it is 39 dollars a year US and it has many jobs that are not on Search; and (b) contact Search, explain your situation to your chosen associate, and see if they will sign you up. Even if you do not go to a job fair, you will have access to a really good database that can cross-reference both your jobs to find schools with those openings, and give you information about the school that is very helpful.
Good luck to you both!
Shad
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My position differs from @SJs.
Your spouse essentially has no experience, a recruiter is going to see anything in a regional non western DS without a professional credential as being ESOL. So your spouse has no experience from the perspective of IE.
You have one year of KS/K12 experience and you have a non western credential. Neither of you have the requisite two years experience thats by consensus the bar to entry into IE. Neither of you is in a high needs area.
Your written English is okay but none of thats going to matter if you arent a native speaker or a westerner at many of the ISs youd be marketable for (lower end of Tier 3), its common to see "Native Speakers Only". Those ISs especially in Asia have a particular look they are trying to cultivate and thats all that matters, they will just see you as another Asian and parents are paying big coin to send their children to what is a western IS.
Your going to want to approach it as you first for librarian vacancies and if they like you sell them on your spouse for primary.
I would endorse TIE, SA isnt going to be as helpful even if they do let you sign up.
Your spouse essentially has no experience, a recruiter is going to see anything in a regional non western DS without a professional credential as being ESOL. So your spouse has no experience from the perspective of IE.
You have one year of KS/K12 experience and you have a non western credential. Neither of you have the requisite two years experience thats by consensus the bar to entry into IE. Neither of you is in a high needs area.
Your written English is okay but none of thats going to matter if you arent a native speaker or a westerner at many of the ISs youd be marketable for (lower end of Tier 3), its common to see "Native Speakers Only". Those ISs especially in Asia have a particular look they are trying to cultivate and thats all that matters, they will just see you as another Asian and parents are paying big coin to send their children to what is a western IS.
Your going to want to approach it as you first for librarian vacancies and if they like you sell them on your spouse for primary.
I would endorse TIE, SA isnt going to be as helpful even if they do let you sign up.
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shadowjack
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Re: Need Career advice for aspiring teaching couple
@PG - I can think of several decent schools that would take a serious look at this couple. There are a surprising number of schools who will hire non-native speaking certified teachers provided they are credentialed from a reputable country - South Korea being such a country.
Feel free to disagree, but my experience is different than yours.
Feel free to disagree, but my experience is different than yours.
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@SJ
A credential is a credential is a credential, what Im seeing is a non-native librarian with 1 year KS/K12 experience and a newly minted primary IT with 0 KS/K12 experience, did i miss something (aside from whats going to be characterized as a bunch of ESOL experience, no matter how you spin it given a westerner in a primary SK DS with only ET qualifications)? Neither of them has the consensus 2 years post certification KS/K12 experience. What am I missing thats anything other than tier 3? They would be lucky if SA let them in as interns.
Nothing in IE really surprises me anymore, could they beat the probabilitys and get lucky, right place, right time, kind of scenario, sure, someone also wins the lottery and broken clocks are right twice a day. Are there exceptions sure, my coins is on the data and not the pixie dust and rainbow of the forum unicorn (which isnt you).
Not the first time we have disagreed.
A credential is a credential is a credential, what Im seeing is a non-native librarian with 1 year KS/K12 experience and a newly minted primary IT with 0 KS/K12 experience, did i miss something (aside from whats going to be characterized as a bunch of ESOL experience, no matter how you spin it given a westerner in a primary SK DS with only ET qualifications)? Neither of them has the consensus 2 years post certification KS/K12 experience. What am I missing thats anything other than tier 3? They would be lucky if SA let them in as interns.
Nothing in IE really surprises me anymore, could they beat the probabilitys and get lucky, right place, right time, kind of scenario, sure, someone also wins the lottery and broken clocks are right twice a day. Are there exceptions sure, my coins is on the data and not the pixie dust and rainbow of the forum unicorn (which isnt you).
Not the first time we have disagreed.