Sabtu, 27 Maret 2010

Search Associates Undertaking Fairs

I attended the Search Associates (SA) Spring Fair inwards Bangkok this yesteryear week. What a learning experience! It was 1 of the most stressful weekends of my life. It is almost a calendar week agone too I am all the same non over it. I promise this weblog post volition assist you lot if you lot are considering using Search Associates or International School Services to abide by a didactics or direction undertaking overseas. The Spring Fair is much smaller than the before Bangkok Fair inwards January. We were non eligible to attend the Jan Fair equally my married adult woman was considered a non-teaching husband too I did non convey PYP experience. Schools tend to expect for candidates who are: (1) Teaching Couples (2) Single (3) Teacher amongst dependents. Going equally reveal three too without PYP sense I was non inwards the best position.

According to SA 50% of candidates jobs come upwards from undertaking fairs spell the other fifty come upwards from connections made amongst schools through their site. It is very of import to acquire to the fair equally early on equally possible too to hold upwards inwards constant communication amongst your associate prior to too during the fair. I was specially blessed having John Ritter equally my associate equally he actually knows his materials too tells it straight. If you lot would similar to contact John his e-mail is jritter@searchassociates.com, I would highly recommend him equally he has been principal for a reveal of big schools too is a pleasance to operate with. Again, he actually knows his stuff.



I arrived to the fair at virtually 4:00pm on Fri afternoon, pregnant I missed all the schoolhouse presentations. When I came in, I saw the associates amongst their backs to me equally inwards the photograph above. I straight off introduced myself to John too asked him to acquire me inwards the game. Up to this betoken nosotros had only been inwards contact (a lot) yesteryear email. He told me to banking concern check my mailbox. Each schoolhouse too each instructor has a mailbox where they tin communicate amongst 1 another.

On Fri nighttime they convey the "sign ups". All the schools are at a tabular array inwards a big ballroom. You hence decease to a greater extent than or less the room too inquire if you lot tin convey an interview. If you lot convey a sideslip inwards your mailbox from a schoolhouse you lot acquire to decease to the front end of the draw to inquire for an interview. You role a schedule canvas to timetable inwards equally many interviews equally you lot tin handle. I had virtually vi scheduled for Saturday.

After the sign ups, I went dorsum to my hotel to bed. Sat was total on amongst the interviews. Most of them took identify inwards hotel rooms, some at the bar. It was rattling interesting to come across which schools were good organised too which were not. Common questions I was asked were: What would your classroom expect like? How would you lot innovation too deliver a unit of measurement of inquiry? How produce you lot role applied scientific discipline inwards your class? Why did you lot decease a teacher? Why produce you lot desire to alive inwards ..... too other such questions.

I asked the same questions virtually the packet school's were offering equally getting benefits for my identify unit of measurement was a priority for me. I had already identified all the school's I was interviewing amongst equally beingness schools who learn the PYP. I afterward learned that whether the schoolhouse is "for profit" or "not for profit" is a rattling of import point. Another of import enquiry would hold upwards how stable is the board that runs the school. That nighttime in that place was a social termination where candidates too recruiters met. This is a identify where jobs are sometimes offered. It is rattling of import to retrieve that amongst SA a verbal offering is considered binding. If you lot intermission a contract you lot may hold upwards blacklisted from their site too fairs.

The next twenty-four lx minutes menstruum nosotros waited to take away heed from the schools. As you lot tin imagine, offers were given, commonly through your mailbox. Little notes were dropped inwards if you lot did non acquire the job. This was tough equally candidates were allow downward too you lot could come across it on their faces. I was delighted to come upwards away amongst a groovy undertaking too am looking frontward to our motion to mainland People's Republic of China adjacent year. Overall the sense was great, equally I said I learned loads, but man child was it stressful. I promise this helps mortal before going to your commencement fair. 

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