ESL Teacher

Thanks to the internet, finding a job in another country has become remarkably simple. I found my jobs in various ways and if you follow some of my methods you’re sure to find a great job, pretty much anywhere in the world:

•  Japan: I found my job teaching in Japan through an advert in my local Australian newspaper. They interviewed us here in Australia before shipping us over to Japan. A pretty easy interview and not too much drama at all.
•  Slovakia: Here the internet came to the fore, and in particular, Dave’s ESL Cafe,  a website that has everything a teacher could want, including new jobs! These days they have separate job boards for Korea and China and all the rest are mixed together. From a job ad here I ended up having a short phone interview (really short - and really friendly!) and then got a contract in the mail.
• Germany: This was a more difficult country to find work in, since I didn’t have an EU passport. But not impossible, obviously. After searching for schools across Germany I started emailing them my CV and bingo, one school was after a full-time teacher. From Slovakia I drove up for an interview over a weekend, and she offered me the job.
• Australia: I was already here before I started job hunting, and that made it especially easy. I got online and found a list of schools close to where I was living, printed out my CV and hopped in the car. The first school I stopped and took my resume and said they’d call me (they didn’t); the second school asked if I had time for an interview right away, and I started teaching there two days later.

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