Category — Jobs

I don’t really publicize it as much as I should, but slowly but surely Great TEFL Jobs, a site I started up last year, is starting to make inroads in the TEFL jobs market. It’s beginning to get solid visitor numbers and it is starting to get job comments.

See, Great TEFL Jobs has a special premise. It allows people to comment on the TEFL jobs advertised. When people are able to leave comments about a job, they feel like they have a way to help other job seekers. For job seekers, they have a chance to get the straight dope before they take on a job.

I would say that the site is a success and with the planned changes that are coming on the site, it should get even better.

If you are looking for jobs in Australia then a good place to look is at Jobs.com.au. They have a good selection of great jobs throughout Australia and their jobs are in easy to browse categories. You can find marketing jobs, IT jobs, and backpacker jobs just to name a few categories. Not only do they have great jobs in Australia, they also have an employment news section with articles covering the latest info on finding a great job.

If you have a school, office, store or some other sort of business, you probably have employees. The more employees you have, the more you have to be on your toes for dissension in the ranks. Keeping morale high can be tough if you are not managing your employees well. See, many employee problems are really management problems.

As management problems begin to grow, morale begins to fall among employees. There are a couple of ways to stop a decline in morale. First, you can deal with the management issues and simultaneously show your appreciation for employees. The second way is to threaten your employees if they get out of line.

Why is that so many businesses choose the way of threats? Take TEFL Schools for example. If you don’t like what your school admin is doing, they will threaten you with no pay or even deportation if you don’t toe the line. They’ll even go to the point of setting apart employees to be their lackeys who will do everything they can to get you fired.

Why do people subject themselves to working at these kind of employers?

I always like helping people find jobs. It does my heart good to know that people have gotten a good job that properly utilizes their unique set of skills. The search to find the right job is never easy though. It seems like job search involves either browsing through pages of job listings while trying to find the best job listing or it involves doing a search for job keywords.

Unfortunately, neither of these are very effective. If you are browsing jobs, you can spend hours trying to read every job ad to see how well you match. If you are doing keyword searching, it can be hit and miss. How do you know that the search words you are using are the same ones that the employer thinks are important? Now there is a much better way to search for a job. It’s called RealMatch.

RealMatch helps you create a job profile and then jobs are matched to your profile in real time. As new jobs are posted, you get updates. No need to search for jobs in the traditional sense anymore. It sounds like a great way to search for a job.

I think many of us can feel very downtrodden after experiencing a bad experience in a job. It’s not unusual, especially when you give everything you’ve got to a job that then spits you out like you are worthless. It’s just not right. I think there’s some debate on where the blame lies, but if you let their bad actions affect you in a negative way, then you are at fault.

You may not have the ability to change the way they wronged you, but you do have the ability to change your own reaction. If you have taken precautions and you have done right by Heavenly Father, then there is no reason to take it upon you. In fact, that’s what the evil one would like you to do. The evil one wants you to take that anger upon you and let it dwell inside of you.

Don’t take upon the anger, dust your sandles off and move on. Do warn others,report that you were wronged to the Watchman on the Tower so others can avoid the pit. But then move on, don’t dwell on the wrong. Don’t let it affect your relationships. If the wrong is affecting you, then you are at fault.

Why do people take a lower salary than they should? I think about this all the time. It seems that teachers are notorious for this. They will accept a lower pay for some private for profit institution and think they are doing the students some kind of favor. Yeah right.

In reality what happens is that is your lower salary allows the school owner to take on a mistress or get a new BMW. You think you are doing well by your students, but just because you are accepting a lower salary doesn’t mean that they are paying less. Your school is in business and that means they are going to charge as much as they can and still keep students in desks.

That means they’re also going to pay you as little as they can get away. With a huge supply of teachers getting off the banana boat each day, your salary is never going to increase to what it should.

If you like your low, depressed salaries than say thank you to the plethora of TEFL websites that are encouraging untrained and inexperienced teachers to join in a TEFL adventure. I am glad that I am not battling for a cowboy job at some low wage language institute.