Pay the small fee and join the International Schools Review. Read the many, many reviews about the many private schools in Kuwait and make an informed decision. All the schools in Kuwait are for profit. All of them are run by business people who don't always make educationally sound decisions. All of them have problems.

The ISS and SEARCH job fairs are a real crap shoot with not very much to offer. But, they might have the job you are looking for. If you don't already belong to either ISS or SEARCH, then it would be expensive to join in order to get access to their list of recruiters who will be at the June job fairs.

Try joining this website: http://www.tieonline.com/
It is run by the International Educator and is excellent for searching for job possibiities at schools around the world. Just be sure to screen your prospective schools through the International Schools Review first to find out if there are any problems.

I had the good fortune to work with Tom Oden when he was the principal at the American Int'l School of Johannesburg, in South Africa. It was his first assignment as a principal. He was a good administrator to work for. He was very friendly and approachable. The students and teachers loved him because he was so personable. Consider yourself lucky to have him!

It depends where you want to work and how desparate the school is. There are many Int'l Schools that take anybody with a pulse, let alone a teaching certificate or experience. You probably won't get into one of the top schools, but there are lots of other good schools around that you should consider applying to. Go for it!!

After over thirty years of successful teaching/adminstration in Canada and international schools, we resigned mid-year from a terrible situation in the Dominican Repubulic and were black-balled by ISS. Jane Larson would not listen to our side of the story. We hung out at home for second semester, tried a SEARCH job fair in June but there is very little available at that time of year. The person who has posted a message saying that the spring and summer job fairs are the best to go to doesn't know what s/he is talking about. We found a job through Tie-on-Line and lucked out with a school that needs a lot of work but is a pleasure to work at. The next winter we went to a SEARCH fair in Boston, signed contracts with the International School of Bejing, celebrated with the occasion with them and went back to work. Three days later ISB phoned to say they were cancelling our contract. While at the ISS job fair they had been contacted by someone (ISB wouldn't even give us the courtesy of saying who talked or what was said, but we figure it must have been our former Director/Dictator, Jack Delman, or ISS staffer, Jane Larson) and they had decided to rescind their contract. Yes, boys and girls, international schools can do whatever they want and you have no recourse. Fortunately we are still at "teacher heaven" and teaching angels every day in our current school, so maybe it all turned out for the best.