Resume & employment history

[releasethedogs]

I was thinking today about going back to my home country and how I would handle it when my next job asks for the info to my job here in Korea. Thing is I have no idea how to handle this? any one got any ideas, what do you plane to do when your next employer asks for employment history?

[nzer-in-gyeongnam]

Tell the employer exactly what the job entitles:

I was working with a Korean native teacher(s), teaching students between the ages of X and Y to learn English. My role in the classroom was to facilitate production of language, to encourage and nurture ability, and to promote learning. While teaching, I learned to do a, b and c. I found working with someone else to be (helpful/hindering/stressful/fun).

I took the job in South Korea to put myself in a different situation, a different lifestyle, and a place where I didn't understand the language, to see how I'd be able to cope and work in an unknown environment. I believe I did rather well as I was able to work successfully there for X number of years. While in South Korea, I picked up a bit of the language also, which may prove to be useful in the future, should I come across any Korean people while working in my home country. I'll be aware of their customs, their culture and be able to communicate a little with them.

This is what I'd be telling an employer, or something to this effect. As I hope some day to return to teaching in my own country as well, I'd be contemplating learning Korean as fluently as I can so that I can teach Korean as well as Japanese.

[releasethedogs]

Tell the employer exactly what the job entitles:

I was working with a Korean native teacher(s), teaching students between the ages of X and Y to learn English. My role in the classroom was to facilitate production of language, to encourage and nurture ability, and to promote learning. While teaching, I learned to do a, b and c. I found working with someone else to be (helpful/hindering/stressful/fun).

I took the job in South Korea to put myself in a different situation, a different lifestyle, and a place where I didn't understand the language, to see how I'd be able to cope and work in an unknown environment. I believe I did rather well as I was able to work successfully there for X number of years. While in South Korea, I picked up a bit of the language also, which may prove to be useful in the future, should I come across any Korean people while working in my home country. I'll be aware of their customs, their culture and be able to communicate a little with them.

This is what I'd be telling an employer, or something to this effect. As I hope some day to return to teaching in my own country as well, I'd be contemplating learning Korean as fluently as I can so that I can teach Korean as well as Japanese.

Fair enough, but at least in my country the schools are going to want some documentation about your history ect. that was was i was mainly talking about.

[Gunpo_Erin]

keep all your contracts and visas, etc.  Talk with your school about having contact information for the co-teacher(s) you worked with.  Contact your coordinators(are you public school?) to see if they have any ideas/information.

Cheers!

[asah]

You can also ask for a recommendation letter. I was applying for grad school, so I needed one. But my co-teacher told me to just write one for myself because she didn't feel like she could write one well enough, and then she just had the principal sign and stamp it.  She even encouraged me to write a second one that was a little more general in terms of who it was directed towards, so I could use it for anything else, like future jobs or school apps.