I'm a native English speaker and US national.
I have a TEFL degree, 4 year college, and 6 months of ESL work experience outside of Japan; during this whole time, I have been job searching, so 6 months of searching.
I've had many, many interviews, only one of which has materialized into an offer, with NOVA. NOVA then revoked my offer a month after they sent it for unexplained reasons. It's not like I told them I hated their guts over email or anything; there was no inciting incident, and I don't know why it happened.
I've applied for most of the big company chains, often multiple times; as seems typical, most never give explanations for anything. Except for these three:
- Westgate gave me an explanation that was "you're not experienced enough; try again next semester" despite my already having given them all of my documents that they needed to sponsor my visa and getting through the demo class and interview and everything. I think they felt like I misled them in putting my number of teaching hours as what it would be if I worked through the spring in this third country that I'm in before I would enter.
- Interac won't hire me because I'm not in the States.
- And Borderlink saw my medical records and cancelled the interview (Oh yeah, I'm mildly neurodivergent, so it's possible that I interview badly? I'm not sure…).
I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to do at this point? If most of the big names have decided that they don't want me, what am I supposed to do?
EDIT: Clarifications that I have already made repeatedly because y'all don't read the thread:
There was one point in the application that they explicitly tell you to count the hours that you will have worked by the time you arrive. I think they didn't like that it would be on a different contract and assumed contract renewal and stuff like that. Or maybe I applied that rule to the wrong field elsewhere in the application? I can't remember…
And I'm in a third country! As in, not in Japan, and not in the USA!
They literally demanded my medical records before the interview; it was not legal or my choice. I normally don't tell employers that. I'm no longer on that medication; so I've reported it to no other employers since then. I didn't give that info to NOVA and to Westgate though I made it far enough that they were demanding medical information,
edit: they weren't real medical records, but asking what medications I was on and why I was on them
EDIT 2: Please stop telling me it's because of meds I'm taking. I've reported that to only one company; that's not the main reason for anything. I'm not on any meds anymore that could possibly be perceived as high stigma.
by NewAlfalfa8223