**Native English Speaker (Full-Time) in Kagoshima – Open Now**Salary starting at 250,000 yen / month, scales with experience
\*Job Description:\*This is a full-time teacher position. Teachers are responsible for their students and lessons.(Please note that this is not an assistant or helping role).Teachers are generally responsible for planning and executing lesson plans based on the students’ needs. While some programs (English Quest specifically) have a set curriculum, English Quest teachers are still required to make supplemental lessons around the main curriculum.On the job training is available for enthusiastic candidates who meet employment requirements\*.\*Basically, we will consider candidates who we can legally employ (bachelor’s degree if in need of visa support, less if legally allowed to work in Japan). If you are not sure, apply anyway.
*Benefits:*Shakai Hoken (社会保険) for all full-time staff, and transportation costs may be coveredForeign owned – No cumbersome Japanese rules or practicesFamily atmosphere – Our teachers play D&D togetherUnique teaching style – None of that standardized stuff hereCompetitive wages – Wages scale based on abilityLiving support – No Japanese? No problem. We’ll help you live hereVisa support – If you’re eligible, we’ll help you get one
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Apply here: [https://stapleton.me/jobs/](https://stapleton.me/jobs/)
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19 comments
“competitive wages”
ROFL
Just state the wage. “Competitive” in eikaiwa is minimum wage these days. 3.4 million yen a year is legal poverty level in Japan, hopefully your salary is higher than that.
Would like you to actually clarify this listing, at it seems you’ve confused “Rando native speaker” with “Teacher” and “School” with “Private eikaiwa business”.
Are you hiring for an actual school that’s accredited and would hire licensed/qualified teachers, or:
Are you hiring for a private business that employs people without licenses or degrees in education? Because those aren’t teachers, those are just people with a BA that speak English.
Looking at the site, all of your official position listings are for “Native English Speaker”, not “EFL/ESL teacher” so it seems you are the latter and use proprietary teaching methods/materials, you also “don’t have tests or push standardized nonsense.” You state your students have been “banned from speech contests” with the reason given as “we actually get them communicating in English.” As someone who as sent students to regional and national contest taking home many wins, the only reasons anyone is ever banned for is because they have lived abroad, have English speaking parents, or have some other advantage where they have acquired English as a second language, not for “being too good”.
All of that plus the really casual tone throw up a lot of red flags that this isn’t a place for professional or qualified educators.
If you’re hiring for a casual eikaiwa and just want enthusiastic native speakers with a BA in whatever, just say that.
Hope you find someone good. Your school sounds like an enjoyable place to work.
Is social insurance and transportation provided?
I put an application in. Seems like a really good place to work.
…. I need to find something that weighs 25kg to check if I can lift that much 😅
Wow, we’re calling 250k/mo “competitive” now? Back when I started here (already after wages had been in free fall), 250k was widely proclaimed to be the minimum acceptable wage for ALTs who have no planning or real responsibilities. Now someone is trying to pay a full teacher that and acting like we should be impressed.
Throw in free accommodations and a meal.
Why would you include the fact staff play D&D with each other, but nothing relating to more relevent shit like work hours, insurance, etc?
Routing for ya Mitch 🙂
This has red flags all over it. Tone for a job ad and school website is way too casual, and the ad doesn’t include many important details like contact hours, work days, insurance, etc.
To brag that your students have been banned from speech contests…wow. Forget awards, let’s celebrate being banned! I’m guessing you are American. It seems like a very American thing to say, “We’re SO good that they banned us because it wasn’t fair to the others.”
Heads up that there is a typo on your website of ‘Avaliable’ jobs.
I was making 300 000 with JET in 2001!
I’m shocked at the pay.
Looks reasonable -like your website!
Man I’d love to, but im not native.. so yeah..
It’s is too bad I’ve already decided to move out of Kagoshima! I would have applied! The job does not seem to bad to me either. I would assume if you have sufficient experience, you would probably try to negotiate the salary or reach out to the company itself about the salary, but that is just me.
Not too sure why we are mad about the D&D thing either. I think the point they are highlighting is that it is a “family atmosphere”. You often hear about all the other English teaching companies that are anything but friendly.
Seems pretty chill, OP. Good luck with the hunt.
Hello, is this postition only limited for native only?
Website says, “we don’t have tests or push standardized nonsense”.
Fantastic. So exactly how do you propose to demonstrate learner improvement over time without any “standardized nonsense” (also known as “assessment”)?