Why teach overseas?
There are over 900 overseas British, American, Anglo-American, and international schools worldwide

Teach abroad in first rate,

• private international schools with excellent faculty and facilities
• Excellent, tax-free salaries
• Teach abroad in English – no foreign language necessary
• Small class sizes when teaching overseas
• Opportunity to save significant funds from overseas teaching

• 5000 teaching overseas vacancies each year
• Become part of a team of innovative, creative educators enjoying the experience of the overseas teaching adventure.
• Housing/housing allowance
• Round-trip transportation/travel allowance
• Health/life/accident insurance
• Pension funds
• Annual home leave
• Free tuition in excellent schools for family members

Here we go !

1. Sort that CV out.    Sadly teachers are notoriously bad at formatting CVs and harping on about a load of experience that isn’t pertinent to teaching.  1983-1985 I was chief burger filler in MacDonalds and was promoted to French fries. Do we care ? Nope and neither does the school. Get rid of all the stuff you don’t really need and keep it simple. Set out on exactly what is going to wow the Headteacher. Don’t forget to bullet points your USPs (unique selling points) and include any extracurricular activities you do that suggest you are team player. Awards, achievement, get them in there as well. Avoid making elaborate boxes, stick to the same font and  size and go easy on the bold button. 2 pages should do you fine.

1. Do your homework. Decide which country you want to teach in, draw up a list of schools in the area. Hit the net, review the schools, make any contacts, work out salaries and cost of living, accommodation to make sure it will be viable. Most countries have tailored made sites giving all of the information. These are found with a couple of clicks from uncle google. Make sure you don’t apply to teach in some far flung area of China and when you get there realise you should be in Shanghai.

1. Be able to provide good references. Some very well organised teachers have references scanned  from Headteachers saying all the correct things on headed paper and stored on a cloud server with all their teaching certificates to match. Schools, agencies and  can have these at a touch of a button. It all helps convince a school that you are the right person.

1. Make sure your CRB is up to date. Don’t get a job starting next week and realise you will have to wait 2 months for all your police checks to come back.

1. Be pro active, I repeat, be pro active. Pick up the phone, hit the Internet to get see your CV out there. CV looking good, documents all in order with good references to back it up –  Most things in life come down to time and timings, so delaying here is the worst thing you can do and you have to create your own luck to a certain degree. You want to spread the word and get it seen by the right person but don’t be too invasive and hence why good contact information is vital.

1. Teacher recruitment fairs. Here is where a lot of the action goes on. International School travel to London Bangkok or some major city and do a lot of their recruiting at one time. Get there and be seen. Be dressed like James Bond, smelling like Calvin Klein and get the charm offensive on turbo. International schools will want the creme de la creme. They need to be promoting themselves as the best – so you will need to look the part and talk the part.  More information on the recruitment fairs later with a guide to getting that job.

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