Hey everyone,
My wife, daughter and I recently moved to Japan and I'm looking for work as an English teacher. Right now, we're staying with my in-laws in Tokyo, but we'd like to move to Kyushu (particularly Miyazaki but...) in the near future.
[edit: to clarify: "near future" as in "we'd like to asap, but if we have to we can wait a year or two"]
And the trickier part: I don't have a Bachelor's.
(1) How should I go about finding job vacancies in Kyushu? I can travel to check out opportunities, but it's pretty expensive to go back and forth. I could only find information/job ads for ECC, GEOS, NOVA, and an ALT placement company or two.
(2) Would it be harder, easier or the same to find jobs in Kyushu rather than Kanto without a degree?
I tutored Japanese exchange students at university in the U.S. for 3 years (though I wonder if that experience will be very useful in this environment). And also volunteered for a short while at a kindergarten, and I love children, but when an internet job ads says as a requirement "loves children", the scenario that runs through my mind is more like: "Do you love your daughter?" "It depends... what did she break?"
Anyway, I would be really greatful for any advice you could give me on this!
Thanks for your time,
a7mouse
My wife, daughter and I recently moved to Japan and I'm looking for work as an English teacher. Right now, we're staying with my in-laws in Tokyo, but we'd like to move to Kyushu (particularly Miyazaki but...) in the near future.
[edit: to clarify: "near future" as in "we'd like to asap, but if we have to we can wait a year or two"]
And the trickier part: I don't have a Bachelor's.
(1) How should I go about finding job vacancies in Kyushu? I can travel to check out opportunities, but it's pretty expensive to go back and forth. I could only find information/job ads for ECC, GEOS, NOVA, and an ALT placement company or two.
(2) Would it be harder, easier or the same to find jobs in Kyushu rather than Kanto without a degree?
I tutored Japanese exchange students at university in the U.S. for 3 years (though I wonder if that experience will be very useful in this environment). And also volunteered for a short while at a kindergarten, and I love children, but when an internet job ads says as a requirement "loves children", the scenario that runs through my mind is more like: "Do you love your daughter?" "It depends... what did she break?"
Anyway, I would be really greatful for any advice you could give me on this!
Thanks for your time,
a7mouse