Degrees < ALT

[大先生]

Say, I currently hold a BA and MBA and key experience in general buisness. Now, since my degrees and experience don't come so easily these days I'm looking forward into a high-salary paying job, well as an ALT or eikaiwa teacher so to speak, out of the programs and private companies that you come to know (experience or heard of), which would you recommend me? Any advice is welcomed as well.

Note: When I write "high-salary paying job", I basically mean what program or company offers a salary that outranks that 250,000 yen boundary.

[Richardo]

Say, I currently hold a BA and MBA and key experience in general buisness. Now, since my degrees and experience don't come so easily these days I'm looking forward into a high-salary paying job, well as an ALT or eikaiwa teacher so to speak, out of the programs and private companies that you come to know (experience or heard of), which would you recommend me? Any advice is welcomed as well.

Note: When I write "high-salary paying job", I basically mean what program or company offers a salary that outranks that 250,000 yen boundary.


Unfortunatly experience and qualifications stand for nothing if you don't have excellent Japanese language skills.
This is the key point that you have to work on if you wish to expand further than teaching.

You can get well paid jobs teaching at Universities or private schools, but most of these jobs are very difficult to find, and it usually depends on "who you know" rather than "what you know"
I'm aware of a company based near Shinjuku called Global Partners who deal with private schools, you sometimes come accross their job offers on GP

My advise is to concentrate on your Japanese skills, become proficiant and then a whole new world will open up for you here.

Alternativly, get settle down in a job for a dispatch company or Eikiwa and progress through the ranks to become a trainer or HR manager.

[大先生]

Well, what companies or programs in the Tokyo area that you come to know or heard of that pays well for teaching English? I ask since all I hear these days is the JET Programme and believe it or not, its not all-that great in my opinion. So, I basically want to know what's out there besides the JET Programme.

[Glenski]

I currently hold a BA and MBA and key experience in general buisness.I gotta ask...why look at one of the most pitiful of English teaching jobs when you have such "key experience"...? Seriously!

[Name Deleted]

Well, what companies or programs in the Tokyo area that you come to know or heard of that pays well for teaching English? I ask since all I hear these days is the JET Programme and believe it or not, its not all-that great in my opinion. So, I basically want to know what's out there besides the JET Programme.


People here pay you for what you can do, what you can offer apart from ability to speak English and if you cant speak Japanese then all you can do is teach English at a language school. There are no 'high' paying jobs in the eikaiwa ALT market and you need to get into a high school or a university. For those you need connections as well as suitable qualifications.

JET is only 3 years and you cant make a teaching career out of the JET program anyway.

[quato]

Dispatch (in-company lessons, not schools) pays better than ALT/eikaiwa work. 3000-6000/hr-- but each class is only 1-4 hrs/week so you need a bunch lined up, which won't be easy to do in the same area.

[大先生]

Here's three simple questions for you guys.

1. What is the name of the company you work for?

2. What is the best company to work for as an ALT?

3. What is the best program to work for as an ALT?

[Glenski]

Here's three simple questions for you guys.

1. What is the name of the company you work for?

2. What is the best company to work for as an ALT?

3. What is the best program to work for as an ALT?
1. university, not company
2. wouldn't have the foggiest idea because most that get reported online are pretty bad
3. JET

[Richardo]

Here's three simple questions for YOU

1 Why Japan?

2 Why teaching?

3 Why the concern about money?

1 and 2 fit together...but 1 2 and 3 do not.

UNLESS you find a job as an ALT, the hours are resonable, and in your spare time teach business english, with your qualifications and experience this could prove quite rewarding.

check out this sight too www.___________.com
It specializes in managerial and exective jobs in Japan.


GP wouldn't let me type that web page in...so here it is again


career cross (one word) dot com

[Fujay]

1) I dont teach
2) I dont know
3) Jet

Sounds like you are out of luck. Whatever you find, you probably wont be satisfied with.

[Name Deleted]

Here's three simple questions for you guys.

1. What is the name of the company you work for?

2. What is the best company to work for as an ALT?

3. What is the best program to work for as an ALT?


1. work for a university

2. there is no best company as people take what they can get so they dont starve. Beggars cant be choosers.

3, Language schools dont have programs they have curriculums which is a fancy word for what you teach students in a lesson plan etc. You are an employee and hired to do a particular job at the client school. A curriculum in and of itself is not good or bad but only as good as the person using it. A bad teacher using a good curriculum is still bad and you may not even get on with the JTE you work with or like the kids.

You might be on a 3-6 month non renewable contract and sent to work in a particular client school. whether its good or bad depends on your teaching materials,. the role of the Japanese teacher in the lesson, how the ALT fits into the 'program'.


JET is not perfect they employ about 4000 teachers in schools all across the country. Pay and perks are good that doesnt stop people quitting after one year.

Downside is you may be sent to a rural or provincial location, no other foreigners or nightlife and nothing to do. JET is not a vacation or a work holiday program for unemployed graduates.

Attitudes shown by JTEs (Japanese Teachers of English range from indifference, hostility, boredom, to varying degrees of interest and enthusiasm. Dont expect all teachers, espeically in elementary schools to be able to speak English or even care. HRT teach 8 subjects and are suddenly told English is being made compulsory and they have to teach a 9th subject and have no training in teaching, a language they cant speak. Makes HRT teachers real happy as they also have meetings and parents nights.

[大先生]

Thank you for the wonderful replies guys, much appreciated. For those of you wondering why I'm looking into English teaching when I can find much better jobs, well I'm always looking for something new to do and learn from, so I guess you can say experience is the reason behind English teaching. Also Glenski, how did you get hired at a university? I hear when getting hired at universities in Japan, they make you write a dissertation paper or the like before getting hired, is this true?

[annysh]

is anybody knows where can i go to learn more about alt?

[aunty ethel]

if you cant speak Japanese then all you can do is teach English at a language school.


BS,absolutely BS you haughty tool!