[jimbo]

Originally Posted by goodkarma

So are you saying that Hong Kong welcomes people with no teaching skills or experience? I sure hope not.

some language centres and schools certainly do, they deem your skin colour more important above all else.

[KnowItAll]

Well, yeah .. that is true, but isnt the NET scheme run by the govt?

[FlashAha]

It's the EMB who deem whether you are acceptable.

Your C.V. is then passed to schools and they become your employer. If they decide you're not white enough/haven't got the right experience/wrong age or sex, then that's their choice. Your c.v. gets passed on.

[goodkarma]

So then MJKen is just in thinking he should have a job even though he has never had a teaching job anywhere let alone Hong Kong?

[FlashAha]

It would be a poor assumption if he did. He may be lucky if the interviewers like him and he can meet the criteria in other ways (other work experience, etc.)

But then, there have been applications from experienced, qualified teachers and they have been rejected.