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Networking Thursdays - Volume 31

8/31/2017

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Charles Fullerton has taught English abroad for more than 15 years, teaching in Costa Rica, Korea and now Qatar. He has an MA TESOL from Framingham State University and a CELTA certificate.

I think most people do some sort of extra work during their time in Korea.  We teach a friend’s kid or get corporate gigs chatting with VP’s in English.  At times, this extra work seems to be everywhere and there aren’t enough hours in the day to teach all the classes being offered to you.  At other times, this all seems to dry up.  It was during one of these dry spells that fate intervened to offer me a steadier part-time job.  I was complaining about the lack of opportunity online when a coworker brought up the British Council and the IELTS exam.  These jobs are normally pretty hush-hush, but he and his wife had been working there for a long time and they had worked with me for years so one of them mentioned there was IELTS examiner training that weekend and that I should apply.  I had the interview with him and another British Council employee, did the training and have now worked testing 2-3 weekends per month in both Korea and Qatar for the past three years.  I never really knew about the test, and I certainly wouldn’t have known about the training, without those friends bringing it up that fateful day.
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