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CIS/ISS Fairfax Recruitment Fair - June

by Hippy Mama

May 17, 2011

Does anyone have any experience attending this? It's late in recruiting season so any tips for getting the position?

Have most teachers already accepted positions for next year?

It looks like this one is also aimed at new grads - I would assume that experienced teachers would do well then?

THanks!

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Dave -> Teaching Couple You should join International School review (ISR) they have 14 evaluations most of them horror stories about American School of Kuwait...

On 5/23/11, Teaching Couple wrote: > Thanks for the info Dave. We were worried that it was late > since the larger job fairs seem to occur fairly early in the > year, and we didn't start to loo...See MoreYou should join International School review (ISR) they have 14 evaluations most of them horror stories about American School of Kuwait...

On 5/23/11, Teaching Couple wrote: > Thanks for the info Dave. We were worried that it was late > since the larger job fairs seem to occur fairly early in the > year, and we didn't start to look into international schools > until after they had taken place. We haven't looked into > reviews of American School of Kuwait, but I know someone who > used to teach in Kuwait and she said of the international > schools there it was the most organized. So I hadn't looked > into it anymore. > > I think our tentative plan for right now is to look into Search > Associates over the summer and get our information in with them > since they sound more organized than CIS. And we'll just keep > submitting our information to whoever we can! We're not too > picky about where we end up as long as we have a halfway decent > benefits package. We really just want the experience. Thanks > again! > > On 5/23/11, Dave wrote: >> ARE YOU KIDDING "American School of Kuwait", have you read >> their review on ISR? >> >> On 5/21/11, Teaching Couple wrote: >>> Thanks very much! We actually submitted our stuff to >>> the American School of >>> Kuwait. We still plan to go, even if it is small, just >>> to start making contacts and to learn more about >>> international schools, and hopefully we'll be hired for >>> the following year. Thanks again! >>> >>> >>> On 5/21/11, Hippy Mama wrote: >>>> >>>> Here you go: >>>> >>>> American International School of Budapest Budapest, >>>> Hungary Damascus Community School Damascus, Syrian >>>> Arab Republic International Community School of Addis >>>> Ababa Ethiopia Pan American School of Bahia Salvador, >>>> Brazil Saudi Aramco Schools Dhahran, Saudi Arabia >>>> Schutz American School Alexandria, Egypt The American >>>> School Foundation, A.C. Mexico City, Mexico The >>>> American School of Kuwait Kuwait City, Kuwait >>>> >>>>

May 23, 2011

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Teaching Couple Thanks, I think we will. And it has been several years since she taught in Kuwait, so who knows how things have changed since then. But ISR sounds like a useful site to belong to anyway.

On 5/23/11, Dave -> Teaching Couple wrote: > You should join International School review (ISR) they have 14 > evaluations most of them horror st...See More

May 23, 2011

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D. Thomas I know, right?

On 5/23/11, Dave -> Thomas wrote: > Search should really give you a referral commission :) > > On 5/19/11, D. Thomas wrote: >> I don't know much about CIS but if you are serious >> about getting positions >> for both of you, you should really register with >> someone like Search Associates...See More

May 23, 2011

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D. Thomas It definitely is useful. Even if you take some of what you read with a grain of salt, it's still better to have the most possible information at your disposal when making life-changing decisions. If you look at the overall pattern of reviews, you can usually get a true picture of things. And different people will have different threshholds of what ...See More

May 23, 2011

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Teaching Couple I did look into ISR when I got home from work yesterday and browsed through the preview reviews and forums/blogs. We will definitely be signing up for it before the CIS fair just so we have that tool at our disposal. And I like that the membership is good for a year, we plan to attend one of the earlier fairs next year. Thanks!

On 5/23/11,...See More