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Lance Said:
Where can I find job postings to teach english in South Korea?We Answered:
It is probably better to go through recruiters for your first year here. Then you have a chance to shop yourself aroundin the meantime. Recruiters are not all bad you know. There are good, bad and ugly recruiters. Just as there are good, bad and ugly schools. Just as there are good, bad, and ugly ESL teachers.Read this to get a broad sense of your topic.
Opportunities and Pitfalls: Teaching English in Korea
http://travel.state.gov/travel/living/te…
A well regarded recruitment agency in Busan.
http://www.kimnjoe.com/
A well regarded agent in Busan (Su, Director)
esl@esljobkorea.co.kr
Websites of interest
http://www.pusanweb.com
Links and pretty active job posting site. Buyer beware.
http://thedaeguguide.com/
Pretty attractive city.
Newspapers
http://times.hankooki.com/
Check job links. Go fish.
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/index.asp
Go fish.
http://english.chosun.com/
Go fish.
Zachary Said:
Most job postings for college professor postitions require a master's degree and "18 graduate credit hours."?We Answered:
They mean that, as part of your masters degree or outside of it, you've taken 18 graduate level credits in the subject you're going to be teaching. So, for example, if you have your MBA and want to teach college-level marketing, they want you to have 18 graduate level credits in marketing.Tracy Said:
Can I get a full time teaching job with a master's degree in mathematics?We Answered:
The market is really rough right now. In the past there have always been open tenure-track positions at community colleges that for which people with Master's degrees are qualified. But this last year those full-time positions have virtually disappeared because states are cutting CC and Uni budgets. This will likely be the case for several years. If you want to go the CC route then you will have to adjunct or do something else until those positions open up again.I don't think that experience as an adjunct is directly related to you ability to secure a full-time position. I've seen people with a few years of adjunct experience get a full-time position at the CC they were teaching at. I've also seem someone with years of experience continually passed over for full-time positions. If you decide to adjunct you must cause NO problems (i.e student complaints) within your department, you need to have proven results (most students passing), you must be an excellent lecturer, you must have high standards (student must learn the material). Some of those things are in direct conflict. So it can make finding that full-time position difficult.
From the prospective of a mathematician who is currently sorting through job applications (at a uni, so Ph.D. required), I can tell you that grad school are seriously under-preparing their students for the job search process. Many schools are only giving primary instructor responsibilities in the summer. So students who aren't moonlighting just aren't hirable for tenure-track. Students just coming out of a Master's program are likely to have even less experience.
Back to you, remember that places "out in the middle of nowhere" are likely to have much lower cost of living. I live "out in the middle of nowhere" and I'm living in the biggest, nicest apartment in town. When I tell people where I live they immediately respond with something like "Ohh. That place is so expensive." I pay $860 a month. I looked at 2 bed, 2 bath places in the $450-550 range. So here "in the middle of nowhere" two courses as an adjunct would go a long way. When CCs in this area hire for full-time they tend to look at the local candidates that would eliminate a lot of your competition.
There are certain areas of the country that are saturated with Master's degrees. Those places are: big cities, all of California, most of Florida, Arizona, NY, and Mass. Full-time jobs in those areas will be virtually impossible to get in the next few years. But here "in the middle of nowhere" we have jobs that pop-up.
It is very difficult to pay the bills as an adjunct. Generally you can secure two classes per district (the max to not be considered full-time if you teach that way throughout the years). If you teach in two districts you will be exhausted every day. That is a lot of driving. It is unlikely you'd be able to survive three districts.
The school system in the county where Las Vegas is located are actually desperate for teachers right now. They actually sent representatives to the national math meetings two weeks ago to try to get faculty send any their students Vegas-way. I've been attending these national meetings for years and I have never seen a school district with a booth especially when they have to travel to another state for it. That might be an option for you.
Good luck.
Nathaniel Said:
Where can I find job postings/opportunities in Seoul, South Korea?We Answered:
Check the classifieds- do they have a Korean version of Monster.com?Glenn Said:
Teaching applications -- send to schools even without job postings?We Answered:
Wouldn't hurt, just give your resume to all the places you want to work and one of those districts will have a position open, most likely. That's what my mom did. The only problem with that is you can end up with a job out in a random in the middle of nowhere school district, like my mom ended up teaching in victorville.