How does ALT Jobs Japan work?

[admin]

The forums are open to anyone with an interest in working as an assistant language teacher. We welcome discussion about living and working in Japan, teaching English in Japan and learning Japanese. Anyone can register for these forums for free.

There is also a subscription service that we offer. If you decide to join this part of ALT Jobs Japan we will upgrade your forum membership to give you access to some subscriber only forums. These contain private discussions and details of direct hire and high paying English teaching jobs.

[jmoriarty84]

Do direct hire ALT jobs come only once or twice a year? Or are there always openings? Plus, in addition to direct hires with BoEs, do you have information of private schools?

[admin]

The main hiring period is for April starts. These jobs sometimes start appearing as early as October/November.

Some BoEs do take on new ALTs after the summer vacation. Last year a decent number of jobs turned up but we have been having much more difficulty finding them this time around. The ones that we know about have closed their application periods already.

To my knowledge, even when an ALT is not working out so well, schools/BoEs don't seem to get rid of them till the end of their contract.

As for private schools, this is something we are starting to investigate.