Hi there,

I am Anas, a local from Amman (Jordan).
Well we do have a lot of financial institutions here in Jordan, and I think you may have a good chance to find a job here, although we have a considerable rate of unemployment in Jordan and this makes it a bit hard for employers to hire non-Jordanians, but if you illustrate unique qualities, that they can use to convince the Ministry of Labor that we want this personnel, it would be rather much easier to hire you.

Being here in Jordan is ultimately is the best way to look for job in Jordan! In many sectors, the official local newspaper is a major medium for all fine institution to call for vacancy candidates, unfortunately they do not distribute the same copy online, so you have to buy the print version of it, I think you might find it in some stores on a daily basis down there in South Africa.
You should buy "Al-Rai" Jordanian newspaper and look for days Sunday to Thursday which are actually working days here in Jordan.
Of Course you have to learn some Arabic sometime, but considerable number of the Ads are in English, so you still can find your way through.
It is also important to register for job sites like:
http://www.akhtaboot.com/en/jordan/
http://www.bayt.com/en/jordan/
which concern the local market.

What other alternatives do you have, give me hints, can you teach for instance? what can you teach?
Do you have some Athletic background for instance? Musical teaching? Anything, I would be more than happy to help!

Best of luck and hope to hear from you!
Anas

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Hi Anas

Thanks for the prompt response, and for the helpful advice you've imparted thus far. I appreciate it.

Well, at the moment I am employed as an MIS analyst at a financial services provider. I specialise in call centre metrics and operations, statistical reporting and trend analysis, historical data retrieval and analysis for strategic marketing campaigns and managerial decisions, monthly business unit operations reporting across the company, etc.

My skills set includes training and work experience as a life and disability underwriter, call centre and processing centre consultant, banking, investment and long-term insurance product support and administration. Also, my studies included financial accounting and information systems, with a bit of SQL and MS Access, as well as Internet marketing and SEO thrown in for good measure :)

Having said all this, my feeling is that as an expat in a country that I've never experienced before, I  would certainly derive the greatest fulfillment from teaching English (I'm a native speaker of the language), but I have no formal training or experience besides being a tutor at the computer labs at the university I attended, and the informal training sessions and presentations that I give to the systems users that I work with currently. I am looking at signing up for a TEFL course in SA, but if that's not a requirement to secure a teaching post in Jordan, then I'd skip it.

For now though, I'll be sure to check the sites you've suggested.  I hope I have given you some useful information to work with.

PS: I have also been a sports coach to a kiddies' softball team, so there's that experience as well. I'm quite the fitness enthuast, and my activities include yoga, Thai boxing, running and water sports.

I'd be grateful for any further information you'd be able to provide.

Many thanks.

Kind regards
ZAgirl

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Hello ZAGirl,

Thank you very much! I hoped I would keep up and maintain the same pace with you but apparently it did not happen.

Well let me say wawz! You are certainly an added value to the society, I am pretty much positive you wouldn't have any difficulty clicking into our society.

The people of Jordan are young, we have a really young society, so teaching and schools here in Jordan is a big business, and non-Jordanians find it easy to get a teaching job here in Jordan, specially that some schools and language centers prefer adding an international flavor to their teams.

You still have a good chance finding a job in other industries, like Finance, IT (Computer Software/Hardware), I also think your skills in reporting and business analysis will not only come in handy to financial institutions, they will also be of great benefit to those business with the need of high marketing power and thorough analysis to the market parameters.
Well I think we do have those in Jordan, we have a lively Telecom industry that competition is bone-breaking, a lot of construction companies that has relatively a lot of cash and our banks aren't much happy about this because they do not borrow much from them .. we've got a lot more.

The thing is, if you don't come from the inside; from within the employer and being sent to their regional office (that's Jordan), and you look look for a job, they would need to find certain qualities that push them to hire you and not look for someone alike from the local market.
It is very possible, I tell you, you will come here and find a lot of non-Jordanian people working in very prestigious occupations, it could be the looks, it could be the connections, it could be the skills, it could be the expertise and professional background, it could be the language, it could be the prestige and having an international member with us .. it could be anything.
you'll notice that here in Jordan boys to girls are probably a zillion to one, so don't panic ;)) try making girlfriend connections as much as you can, you'll need them, and they'll be happy to have you as a friend.

Having said all that, we still do need a lot of teachers, specially we're doing a very good job at the Languages department, certain sectors here in Jordan have no collection of English what so ever.
Because Jordan is not in the international spotlights as much as Dubai for instance, the English language is slowly progressing in the society, although lately there have been considerable interest from the public to learn English.
So I think you made my task a bit easier you targeting a teaching position here in Jordan, beside you being a sports loving person and been working with kids before, that will be great for a potential school teacher!

... still got a lot to say, will get back after my work hours.
(To Be Continued).

P.S.: what is "training and work experience as a life and disability underwriter"?

Kind regards,
Anas Qasrawi

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Correction:
We're "not" doing a very good job at the Language Department.

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