Getting The Ball Rolling... Again

As I wrote on this blog a month or so ago, I had to put off moving to South Korea to teach English until after my Australia trip in March. I was therefore advised by a couple of different recruitment companies that I was best off waiting until the new year before re-applying for positions.

I've decided to be a little pro-active and have therefore started getting in touch with recruitment agencies again, in the hope that perhaps a job can be found sooner rather than later. I'd love to get a job nailed down as soon as possible so I can relax and start planning myself for the move. I also have to consider that, from the end of February to the start of April, I will be out of the country so arranging Visa documents etc could be a little trickier during that period. It would be good to get it all sorted in the next three months or so.

So an email has been sent to the guys at Reach to Teach Recruiting. I was in contact with these recruiters before and said I would come back to them when I was ready to start applying for jobs again. The guy I was talking to was very knowledgeable and friendly and their website is very up to date and contemporary. There seems to be hundreds of recruitment companies out there but those that have a dated website or none at all just don't seem quite as inviting to go through - although if needs be, I will do.

Lonely Planet, one of the biggest travel guide companies in the world, has an interesting section to their website. It's called LP Pathfinders. It's an initiative Lonely Planet has set up that helps travel bloggers get their blogs noticed. There are three stages to the program and as you progress up the stages the blogger will find themselves having more opportunities to get noticed and receive paid work from Lonely Planet.

It's a brilliant opportunity and one that I'm going to enlist this blog on. It apparently helps to specialise in a certain niche in order to improve the views on a blog. So in the next few months, as a move to South Korea gets closer and then when it finally arrives, I will start specialising this blog on Teaching Engish as Foreign Language (TEFL) and focusing it on Seoul, South Korea. As I gain experience I will share advice and knowledge while continuing to document my adventures as they come. I will continue to be blogging about various other interests and will of course be blogging regularly when I am in Kuala Lumpa, Singapore and Australia early next year but the focus will now start to be narrowed to TEFL and Seoul.  

I have also, as you may have noticed, changed the blog name back to Boormania. Don't worry, this is the last time it'll be changed... unless I think of something better!