fine dude wrote:
> The pay is reflective of the local economy and tuition. Why not improve
> your credentials, get real experience and take the legal route like we all
> do? I'm sure your attitude tells me you want to find it the hard way. Ask
> your family or parents what they think of your strategy. They might give
> you a more convincing answer.
I have the teaching credentials, my experience is just as real as anyone elses insofar as I stood in a classroom and taught stuff. But 2 years in one place is totally absurd, and life is too short to remain locked in one place when there's so much else to see and do, so I end up bailing on these places after a suitable payday or holiday period.
Now I've been doing this for a few years already but that gap is starting to get too big to be waved away. There's only so much you can bullshit about you were traveling or attending to sick relatives.
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- Fri Jan 03, 2020 4:22 am
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
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- Fri Jan 03, 2020 3:52 am
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
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Re: Creating fake references
Can anyone explain precisely why this wouldn't work? Yes, you might get caught, in which case you're in no worse position than you started anyway (i.e. no job). If I don't do this these gaps in my resume keep getting bigger and bigger, despite me actually accumulating teaching experience during that time. I find 2 years in one place to be way too much, after 1 year tops I'm ready to move on to sample a new country and a different variety of women.
fine dude wrote:
> Ask yourself if you like your kids being taught by a guy recruited using your fake
> method.
No, but given that this would mainly be employed against third tier internationals/upper end bilingual schools, the phrase 'pay peanuts, get monkeys' applies. And in any case, I'm not about to proritise random unknown people's wants above my own.
fine dude wrote:
> Ask yourself if you like your kids being taught by a guy recruited using your fake
> method.
No, but given that this would mainly be employed against third tier internationals/upper end bilingual schools, the phrase 'pay peanuts, get monkeys' applies. And in any case, I'm not about to proritise random unknown people's wants above my own.
- Thu Jan 02, 2020 5:29 pm
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: Creating fake references
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Creating fake references
Hello,
I was thinking of boosting my work experience up a bit, maybe giving myself that admin promotion that would allow me to sit at the ranks of those who do nothing but earn 3x what the teachers do.
My thoughts were, given I'm bored of my current job, and I'll be bailing on them within the next month (just as soon as payday hits), I obviously can't use them as a reference. I generally can't handle 2 years in one place, since around 6 months- 1 year seems plenty for me to have seen the place, banged a few of the locals, and then I find I want to leave for pastures new.
It's getting to the point though that continually ghosting all the jobs I've had is getting to be problematic since my CV has huge gaps in it now. I was thinking about creating a school website using a cheap web host provider, add a few generic images of a school building, teachers on the staff etc - make it look to anyone like it's a legit school. Not an international school probably since that's too easy to get busted, but some bilingual school in the depths of China or India or some other place hardly anyone would have heard of.
I'll then get a business email account through that webhost, which looks like a proper school business email address. I then put that email address down as my 'reference' and say it's the principal of the school, maybe add a few other references like my head of department, grade leader, whatever. I can then put that I worked there for all the years I've been bouncing around the world, maybe even get credited for years of experience too.
This would mainly be targeted at lower third tier schools and other bilingual schools that aren't real internationals, since tbh I wouldn't want to work at a first tier place with high standards anyway (and I'd be more likely to get caught if applying to those I think). It would also allow me to maybe say I was a department head or whatever after a few more years, and I might be able to swing that into a cushy admin job where all I need to do is watch youtube all day like every single admin I've ever actually observed does.
Is this a good idea? Would free me from this confidential references BS that the agencies seem to have, and I could always make sure my references were perfect, get credited for my years of experience that I have actually taught etc. It's a trivial matter to design a decent looking website for me, could do that in a few days, and the costs aren't that high for hosting either.
I was thinking of boosting my work experience up a bit, maybe giving myself that admin promotion that would allow me to sit at the ranks of those who do nothing but earn 3x what the teachers do.
My thoughts were, given I'm bored of my current job, and I'll be bailing on them within the next month (just as soon as payday hits), I obviously can't use them as a reference. I generally can't handle 2 years in one place, since around 6 months- 1 year seems plenty for me to have seen the place, banged a few of the locals, and then I find I want to leave for pastures new.
It's getting to the point though that continually ghosting all the jobs I've had is getting to be problematic since my CV has huge gaps in it now. I was thinking about creating a school website using a cheap web host provider, add a few generic images of a school building, teachers on the staff etc - make it look to anyone like it's a legit school. Not an international school probably since that's too easy to get busted, but some bilingual school in the depths of China or India or some other place hardly anyone would have heard of.
I'll then get a business email account through that webhost, which looks like a proper school business email address. I then put that email address down as my 'reference' and say it's the principal of the school, maybe add a few other references like my head of department, grade leader, whatever. I can then put that I worked there for all the years I've been bouncing around the world, maybe even get credited for years of experience too.
This would mainly be targeted at lower third tier schools and other bilingual schools that aren't real internationals, since tbh I wouldn't want to work at a first tier place with high standards anyway (and I'd be more likely to get caught if applying to those I think). It would also allow me to maybe say I was a department head or whatever after a few more years, and I might be able to swing that into a cushy admin job where all I need to do is watch youtube all day like every single admin I've ever actually observed does.
Is this a good idea? Would free me from this confidential references BS that the agencies seem to have, and I could always make sure my references were perfect, get credited for my years of experience that I have actually taught etc. It's a trivial matter to design a decent looking website for me, could do that in a few days, and the costs aren't that high for hosting either.