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Here is a guide on how to not get a teaching job.
When I go through teachers' applications I get many people who do a lot to not get a job. Are they doing what many Australians do to stay on the dole? Apply to these jobs so you can say "I applied but got no response," and purposely trying not to get hired. So here are things not to do by many teachers.
Don't read the job description. If you want the recruiter or school to think that you have no reading ability is to simply just don't read any information on the advert. Find some information given such as "the salary is 4000 yuan" and then ask the recruiter "how much is the salary?"
Ring the school or recruiter straight away. Once you have sent all of your details and photos to the recruiter, call them immediately and ask them if they have received your email. Don't give them any time to open their emails and then respond to you, give them only one second. They might be out shopping but who knows they may take their computer with them into the supermarket.
Always demand twice as much than what is advertised. If the school is offering 4000 yuan then demand 8000. Do this in your first email and don't send any CV or resume to show that you're worth it. The school might be so desperate that they might give in straight away. Don't apply to those schools that actually do offer higher salaries just apply to the school that is offering the required salary and hope for the best. Also a recruiter cannot negotiate the salary only the school can but they might fight for you. If one of the foreign teachers is doing the advertising for the school they just might want you to earn twice as much as them. How is your basic maths? A school is looking for a handful of teachers and if four or five out of a hundred have the basic requirements and willing to work for the advertised salary don't you think that your chances are pretty low?
Make the school contact you. Here is a good way to make the recruiter or school's work much easier. Don't send any information about you and keep it really simple. "Hi my name is Jason and I want to work in your school. If you want some information about me my email is idiot@emailaddress.com and you can call me 555 555." Even though the school's ad did say please send your details it is much easier for them to call you and ask you in person to send your details. Logic is something schools and recruiters hate so don't use any.
Be an arrogant prick. Some schools have woken up to the fact that just because you have a white face doesn't mean you're a good teacher. Also that a lot of non-native teachers are better and a few white faces are good for the photos on the pamphlets to impress parents. Schools prefer someone like me because I do my job, rarely have a complaint and I look good on a pamphlet. Schools that have hired teachers for a long time really want to have an arsehole that will complain about everything, demand the moon and most of all do bugger all in the classroom. You must make out that back in your country you gave up a million dollar salary to be at their school.
Schools love a drunk. Asia use to be desperate for teachers that they would hire any broken down white man that would crawl to class half tanked. However there are some of these remaining usually white middle aged men who think this is better than begging on the streets for their beer money. Sadly for them that teaching has become popular to younger, sober and trained teachers. But don't give up there might be a school that could be naive and still believe that a white face means a professional teacher.
Bulk email schools. I like it when someone just gets a whole lot of emails and sends a single message. They never keep track of whom they've spammed and if the school replies the teacher doesn't know which school is contacting them. One teacher who I was chatting on messenger didn't know which school I was. He asked me "do I get the job?" I replied "well it is still early and the school will let you know sometime before the end of the semester." "But I need a job now!" I was a bit confused because I advertise one semester before the school needs teachers. "We don't need teachers now only next semester." He then asked this question which indicated that he bulk emails a lot of schools. "Oh, which school are you again?"
Push your luck. This is what non-degree holders like to do where schools states that they require at least B.A. degree. Usually they will say that they don't have any and will ask if they could be waived. That is fair enough but for many government schools they have no choice but to refuse. Maybe businesses such as English centres don't care for degrees and just require teaching certificates. One woman wanted to work for my school and every time we told her that we need to see a copy of her degree she would send her life saving certificates among other twenty or so irrelevant certificates. Also we needed recommendations from employers or schools but she said that her students' are going to write one for her. So each time we told her "please only send degree," she would send the same twenty or so irrelevant certificates. When the school sent her a refusal letter she didn't quite read it as a refusal letter. Later she got angry because we left her in the dark. Another older man with a thick accent without a degree wanted the school to pay him double.
Rub the school or recruiter the wrong way. I got a phone call once, actually it was my girlfriend who answered this call. A guy demanded we give him the school's email, she informed him that we are the school and what did he wanted to know. He refused to give any questions and said he only wanted the school's email. My girlfriend just hanged up on him because he was so abrupt with her. I try to make my ads give a little about me which is I am a foreign teacher advertising for the school. Obviously this guy can't read but if i were a recruiter would I recommend this guy to a school?
Overall. A little common sense goes a long way unless you don't want a job. Not all recruiters, schools and even foreign teachers are desperate for you. We get a lot of emails and those who make it easy for us usually end up getting hired. So if you are planning to apply to schools through me just remember I won't put a good word for you if you are an arsehole.