What are the means of locating prospective employers?
A lot of schools advertise in the Guardian and TES, and a few advertise on the internet now. CfBT recruit for Bilkent University and Black Sea Technical University (minimum 2 years’ experience + CTEFLA. A lot of the better (and the worst) jobs are only advertised locally. As a rule of thumb, if applying from home, go for schools which have an English name, and avoid Lycees and “dersane”s – some of them are actually OK, but it’s impossible to tell if you’re abroad. The names of Lycees usually end in “Lisesi”, and desanes in “dersanesi”. Actually there are some very good State Lycees (e.g. Galatasaray Lisesi and the Anadolu Lisesi’s) but they tend not to advertise abroad. Dersanes are cramming courses for the university entrance exams – there are some good ones, but the pay is generally low. Schools with names ending in “Kolej” are usually upmarket private lycees – some of them are very good, others so-so. Pay and conditions are generally better than language schools, but the students ca
