Joining the school where they work

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3. Joining the school where they work

Jalu and Kiki were working at the same private primary school in Salatiga. This primary school was a bilingual school which applied national plus curriculum. The journey of finding their desirable job led Jalu and Kiki to their supposed job, English teacher. It was a profession which they were qualified at since they graduated from an English Teacher Education study program. Been through in the battle of jobseekers, Kiki realized and thought that her actual expertise was in teaching English. She was afraid if she had to learn from the beginning when she decided to work at a certain company. Kiki also thought that working at the company would be monotonous and would fade her English proficiency away. I have ever applied for jobs in several companies before, but then I think my expertise is in teaching English. If I work in a company, it would be monotonous and would require me to learn from the beginning. Surely, my English skills would not be use much like what my friends who do not work as teacher experience. Interview1_K3 Hence, she started to change her horizon in seeking for jobs. She swerved from looking for jobs in companies to teaching. Kiki tried to apply for a job as teacher at an international primary school in Semarang but she was refused because of her religion. Not long after that, Kiki received a text message from the school where she worked now which informed her about a job vacancy as an English teacher there. Then she sent her application letter to that school and was being invited for the job-interview. Actually Kiki applied for a job as English teacher at the pre-school; however the school principal took her as the candidate for English teacher at 49 primary level by considering her ability and any other things. After being interviewed and did micro teaching, she was called and told that the school accepted her as primary English teacher at that school. Slightly different from Kiki, though Jalu wanted to find job in different field from teaching, he did not limit himself to only apply job other than teaching. He also applied for a job as teacher because he liked to teach and he did not want to pass the opportunity approaching him. Thus, applying job as an English teacher was part of his quest for job. Since I like teaching and the opportunity to be a teacher is approaching me, thus I take that. Moreover, I do not want to be unemployed too long after graduated. I want to search for working experiences so that I can use it as my sale value for the next or other job application. Interview1_J5 Being a PNS civil servant ever interested Jalu. Thus, he had ever applied for a job as a language instructor at Disnakertrans in Yogyakarta. Jalu passed the first selection which was the administrative selection, but then he did not come for the test because he had already accepted in the school where he worked now. Jalu got the information of a job vacancy as English teacher in that school from his girlfriend. Then, he applied for a job as English teacher at Junior High School. Similar with Kiki, he was put at different position from what he wished. However, the consideration of placing Jalu at primary level was not similar with Kiki. Jalu was placed at primary level since the position of English teacher at Junior High was already filled with another candidate. Similar with Kiki, Jalu also passed the job-interview and micro teaching first, before accepted as English teacher at that school. 50

4. Orientation before teaching