Walk in and become an English teacher?
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Walk in and become an English teacher?
I've been living PP for close to a year. I'm a freelancer working online and mainly keep to myself. The one barang friend I made here has since left, so I don't really have anyone to ask this question to. Anytime you Google a question about Cambodia this forum comes up, so I figured it'd a good place to try.
At the moment I'm in need of some additional cash. To be totally honest I have very little interest in teacher English, though I have done it before. I don't have a university degree or any TESL certificates. I white, in my 30's, from the USA (this means very little in real life, but I know many schools in SEA care about this superficial things).
There are constantly people talking about how Cambodia is one of the last easy places to teach in SEA, if you're white, western and a native speaker you can just show up at any school and start teaching almost immediately. As simple as that! I must have heard or read this 1000 times. Well, I've sent my CV/resume out to 12 schools advertising positions on camhr dot com (admittedly some requested applicants with university degrees) via email, and not one has replied in over two weeks.
Can anyone point me to a school where I have a chance of walking in and being hired, or at least given an interview?
If you don't want to announce it publicly, a PM would be totally fine.
Much thanks to anyone who takes time out to help.
At the moment I'm in need of some additional cash. To be totally honest I have very little interest in teacher English, though I have done it before. I don't have a university degree or any TESL certificates. I white, in my 30's, from the USA (this means very little in real life, but I know many schools in SEA care about this superficial things).
There are constantly people talking about how Cambodia is one of the last easy places to teach in SEA, if you're white, western and a native speaker you can just show up at any school and start teaching almost immediately. As simple as that! I must have heard or read this 1000 times. Well, I've sent my CV/resume out to 12 schools advertising positions on camhr dot com (admittedly some requested applicants with university degrees) via email, and not one has replied in over two weeks.
Can anyone point me to a school where I have a chance of walking in and being hired, or at least given an interview?
If you don't want to announce it publicly, a PM would be totally fine.
Much thanks to anyone who takes time out to help.
"I white." LoL! Go back and see if you can correct all your shitty writing.Cucumber Slice wrote:I've been living PP for close to a year. I'm a freelancer working online and mainly keep to myself. The one barang friend I made here has since left, so I don't really have anyone to ask this question to. Anytime you Google a question about Cambodia this forum comes up, so I figured it'd a good place to try.
At the moment I'm in need of some additional cash. To be totally honest I have very little interest in teacher English, though I have done it before. I don't have a university degree or any TESL certificates. I white, in my 30's, from the USA (this means very little in real life, but I know many schools in SEA care about this superficial things).
There are constantly people talking about how Cambodia is one of the last easy places to teach in SEA, if you're white, western and a native speaker you can just show up at any school and start teaching almost immediately. As simple as that! I must have heard or read this 1000 times. Well, I've sent my CV/resume out to 12 schools advertising positions on camhr dot com (admittedly some requested applicants with university degrees) via email, and not one has replied in over two weeks.
Can anyone point me to a school where I have a chance of walking in and being hired, or at least given an interview?
If you don't want to announce it publicly, a PM would be totally fine.
Much thanks to anyone who takes time out to help.
If you can, I'll post a school you can almost certainly walk into tomorrow and walk out with a job $10+ per hour. And if they DON'T offer you a job, that means there is a damn good reason no schools have called you back and you have no chance here.
Good luck (sounds like you need it)!
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If you SEND your CV, it'll likely get lost in some vacant secretary's inbox. Scrub up nicely, go in person and insist on seeing a DoS immediately.
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Totally unqualified? No degree? No TEFL or CELTA? Bugger all experience?
Go to Beltei. They hire guys just like you.
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I've met some hot ones.Cucumber Slice wrote:To be totally honest I have very little interest in teacher English
I think uh few skools is recruiting pidgin teacher.
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
Yeah bro, I think you need to work on your writing and (maybe) speaking skills. No offense, but if you speak like that as a 30-something American, you won't impress many employers. Maybe you were hungover when you posted this before, or something.Cucumber Slice wrote:I've been living PP for close to a year. I'm a freelancer working online and mainly keep to myself. The one barang friend I made here has since left, so I don't really have anyone to ask this question to. Anytime you Google a question about Cambodia this forum comes up, so I figured it'd a good place to try.
At the moment I'm in need of some additional cash. To be totally honest I have very little interest in teacher English, though I have done it before. I don't have a university degree or any TESL certificates. I white, in my 30's, from the USA (this means very little in real life, but I know many schools in SEA care about this superficial things).
There are constantly people talking about how Cambodia is one of the last easy places to teach in SEA, if you're white, western and a native speaker you can just show up at any school and start teaching almost immediately. As simple as that! I must have heard or read this 1000 times. Well, I've sent my CV/resume out to 12 schools advertising positions on camhr dot com (admittedly some requested applicants with university degrees) via email, and not one has replied in over two weeks.
Can anyone point me to a school where I have a chance of walking in and being hired, or at least given an interview?
If you don't want to announce it publicly, a PM would be totally fine.
Much thanks to anyone who takes time out to help.
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Lol!!vladimir wrote:I've met some hot ones.Cucumber Slice wrote:To be totally honest I have very little interest in teacher English
I think uh few skools is recruiting pidgin teacher.
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LOL!
After rereading my post, I realize that I deserve every bit of that. It looks pretty damn terrible. If I may, I'd like to chalk it up to a combination of thinking faster than I type, not looking over what I wrote before hitting submit, a shitty netbook with keys that stick, and five or six too many cans of Angkor.
Believe it or not, I was actually a newspaper editor for a few years. Perhaps that's why the paper isn't around anymore.
In all seriousness though, I believe I am well enough versed in the language to offer something to students here. And I'd approach that with a bit more seriousness that posting on a message board. Any recommendations on specific schools to visit in person would prove very helpful. I know next to nothing about the education scene here.
I do have experience teaching in three Latin American countries. I also tutored a few college students while living in South Korea. I'm certainly no specialist. I'm not even a qualified teacher by international standards. But at $10 an hour what can these schools really expect? A much older friend of mine with a graduate degree recently did a stint at a respected university in Seoul. He was paid $90,000 and had his housing and airfare covered. And he still complained about the experience! I doubt Phnom Penh is going to attract many education professionals like him, though I certainly could be wrong.
I have heard so many stories about walk-in, same-day hires here that I thought I'd give it a shot until the freelance thing picks up again.
NB: I didn't proofread this post either. Please feel free to tear it apart!
After rereading my post, I realize that I deserve every bit of that. It looks pretty damn terrible. If I may, I'd like to chalk it up to a combination of thinking faster than I type, not looking over what I wrote before hitting submit, a shitty netbook with keys that stick, and five or six too many cans of Angkor.
Believe it or not, I was actually a newspaper editor for a few years. Perhaps that's why the paper isn't around anymore.
In all seriousness though, I believe I am well enough versed in the language to offer something to students here. And I'd approach that with a bit more seriousness that posting on a message board. Any recommendations on specific schools to visit in person would prove very helpful. I know next to nothing about the education scene here.
I do have experience teaching in three Latin American countries. I also tutored a few college students while living in South Korea. I'm certainly no specialist. I'm not even a qualified teacher by international standards. But at $10 an hour what can these schools really expect? A much older friend of mine with a graduate degree recently did a stint at a respected university in Seoul. He was paid $90,000 and had his housing and airfare covered. And he still complained about the experience! I doubt Phnom Penh is going to attract many education professionals like him, though I certainly could be wrong.
I have heard so many stories about walk-in, same-day hires here that I thought I'd give it a shot until the freelance thing picks up again.
NB: I didn't proofread this post either. Please feel free to tear it apart!
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Like I said, Beltei. You'll probably be a great improvement on most of the teachers they have, especially if you can go 24 hours without getting fall over drunk and faceplanting in an expat bar.
Also, there may well be an opening at PUC. (See the 'Taco Bill' thread.)
Also, there may well be an opening at PUC. (See the 'Taco Bill' thread.)
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Lol, your original post was free entertainment, so don't worry about it! It's understandable, I've had that, where the keys jam and my brain is fried from drinking, no worries. I'd say walk into the schools and speak with who is in charge of hiring and tell them what you said on here (you don't have formal education, but you substituted it with prior experience). After reading your second post, you seem to be well-versed and probably would be a good teacher.Cucumber Slice wrote:LOL!
After rereading my post, I realize that I deserve every bit of that. It looks pretty damn terrible. If I may, I'd like to chalk it up to a combination of thinking faster than I type, not looking over what I wrote before hitting submit, a shitty netbook with keys that stick, and five or six too many cans of Angkor.
Believe it or not, I was actually a newspaper editor for a few years. Perhaps that's why the paper isn't around anymore.
In all seriousness though, I believe I am well enough versed in the language to offer something to students here. And I'd approach that with a bit more seriousness that posting on a message board. Any recommendations on specific schools to visit in person would prove very helpful. I know next to nothing about the education scene here.
I do have experience teaching in three Latin American countries. I also tutored a few college students while living in South Korea. I'm certainly no specialist. I'm not even a qualified teacher by international standards. But at $10 an hour what can these schools really expect? A much older friend of mine with a graduate degree recently did a stint at a respected university in Seoul. He was paid $90,000 and had his housing and airfare covered. And he still complained about the experience! I doubt Phnom Penh is going to attract many education professionals like him, though I certainly could be wrong.
I have heard so many stories about walk-in, same-day hires here that I thought I'd give it a shot until the freelance thing picks up again.
NB: I didn't proofread this post either. Please feel free to tear it apart!
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