Behind at the start

After finding what we thought were good matches, we sent e-mails to the schools to show our interest in their positions. Funny thing, we really didn’t know about some of the other overseas teacher placement services that do somewhat the same thing as ISS. To make travel easier (I think), these recruitment conferences are scheduled back to back to back. Some of the school headmasters, etc had already left for the states before we sent our e-emails. Prior contact with schools that you have an interest in would be a help to both the candidate and the school, instead of everything happening in the short timeframe of an IRC.

Based on this feeling of being behind or being rushed, we went to Boston for the ISS IRC. A second suggestion, stay in the conference hotel, get there a day early if possible, listen and meet everyone you can and don’t get offended easily. Because I was applying for an administrative position, and the first day was for the administrative interviews, we arrived on Sunday about 2:30 PM, after a flight delay (seems to go with flying in today’s world). We checked in, got our packet, got the lay of the land and how things were supposed to work, found a cheap (kind of) place to eat and started to meet people.