Posts Categorized: Southeast Asia

Looking for a job internationally but not sure if you’ll be able to due to age, health and/or relationship-based factors? Here’s our how-to and do-not guide for those asking questions about if they’ll be accepted despite some of these problems. You may also want to check the bottom of each Job Post as the restrictions including the factors mentioned… Read more »

Throughout Asia, a variety of cultures and traditions meet and greet one another on a daily basis and this could be due to the conjoined landmass allowing travel so easily just via foot alone. This huge and incredibly diverse land is home to a variety of peoples speaking an even wider variety of languages. These… Read more »

Broken into a wide variety of styles across an even wider variety of regions, food in Asia has been developed exponentially throughout the ages as techniques have been refined and cuisine diversified further and further over time. Asia is home to some of the most unique cuisine from across the world and sees cooks use… Read more »

Marking the start of the Chinese Calendar and also known as Chunjie (Spring Festival) in China, the Chinese New Year  is also known as Nian (Festival of the Year), Guo Nian (Passing of the Year) and Nongli Xinnian (New Year of the Agricultural Calendar) while Chinese New Year’s Day is known as Yuandan (The first… Read more »

As a recruiter for the Asian market I often come across many people that do not want or consider going to teach in China, and only when they have no choice, they accept the reality of moving to this great big country. After this they send feedback to me and have a completely different experience… Read more »

Expats in Indonesia As part of our on-going journey to help provide real life experiences of expat teachers who have “been there and done it”, we would like to thank Mr McLean for submitting this article to be posted on the SeekTeachers Blog. Mr McLean shares his real life experiences about life as an expat in Indonesia. Here’s what he… Read more »

A Short & Dirty Guide for Teachers Seeking International Teaching Jobs There are about 5000 international schools around the world which are growing at a fast rate! The majority of these schools are Private international schools. This means they are essentially operated as businesses and funded by directors whose penultimate goal is to make a… Read more »