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I checked the schools attending list yesterday on the CIS site for the fair this weekend. This list has shrunk from 11 schools to 2. Is this a mistake? Will there really only be 2 schools at the fair? Because that sounds like a huge waste of time. I thought at least we would listen to the presentations and maybe make some contacts for the following year among the 11 schools originally listed. But two schools just doesn't seem worth it.
Dave -> Teaching Couple According to Mary Hardinge the CIS recruitment manager, this is not a mistake there are only 2 schools that are still attending, though these schools are actively recruiting for positions this year in 2011/2012. She really emphasized this, but the tone of her voice said "its going to be a vacuum" there will still be some presentations which may be ...See More
Jun 8, 2011
Teaching Couple We've talked, and since there will only be 2 schools I think we're just going to cancel and skip it. It just doesn't seem like it would be very beneficial for us. Next year we'll just go to the larger job fair in the winter. (We were too late to attend that one this year.) Will us canceling so close to the fair be a problem? It won't affect us in a...See More
Jun 8, 2011
Dave I dont know what CIS's reaction would be, or what problems you may refer too. I dont think the two schools will remember two people who they never met? Seriously though why CIS? If your serious, you need a bigger and better recruitment service, either SA or ISS...

On 6/08/11, Teaching Couple wrote: > We've talked, and since there will ...See More
Jun 8, 2011
Teaching Couple We did cancel, it just didn't seem like it would be beneficial. We just began looking into international schools in February, and didn't know much about them, so when we were looking around for info CIS was what we came across. I didn't know anything about Search Associates until a few weeks ago when someone on here mentioned it. So over the next y...See More
Jun 9, 2011


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