• The main two days for interviews are Friday 6 and Saturday 7 March.  By arrangement with individual candidates, and only if necessary, it may also be possible to schedule a few interviews on either Thursday 5 or Sunday 8 March.
• Arrival on the afternoon / evening of Wednesday 4 March or the morning of Thursday 5 March 2009 is recommended.  Recruiters need the Thursday to review candidates' files thoroughly.

Either using the hotel's Search Associates Recruitment Fair Recruiters' Room Reservation form,

Or using the hotel's online booking procedure as follows:

1. Log on to www.dubairenaissance.com.
2. Go to "Check Rates & Availability" and enter the required arrival and departure dates.
3. Find the group code box and fill in the Search Associates group code,
   sfasfab  (for Club Rooms for recruiters) or
   sfasfac  (for 1-bedroom Suites for recruiters) or
   sfasfad  (for 2-bedroom Suites for recruiters).
4. Click on "Find" - from here the recruiter can make her/his own booking.

No travel agency intermediary, please;  the hotel's reduced room rates leave no room for agency commissions.

Please book early;  hotel bookings should be made NO LATER THAN 5 FEBRUARY 2009 as rooms are being held only until this date.

Tel:  (+971 4) 262 5555  or  (+971 4) 608 8871;    Fax:  (+971 4) 262 2463; 
E-mail:  sheena.randhawa@renaissancehotels.com

1. Download and print out the Dubai Fair 2009 Recruiter Information.
2. If you have not already received an invitation to register online for the fair, e-mail David Cope to confirm your plans and request an invitation
   Registration no later than 31 January 2009 is greatly preferred.  After that date recruiter places may well be limited.
3. Arrange prompt payment of the fair registration fee due, within 15 days of your online registration for the fair, and preferably by direct bank transfer.
4. Once your recruiter place has been confirmed, make your own recruiter room reservation(s) at the Renaissance Dubai Hotel as explained above.
5. If you need a visa for Dubai and you would like the Renaissance Dubai Hotel to arrange it for you, please tick the "Visa Required - Yes" box on the room reservation form (if you use it) and Click Here to download the hotel's Visa Application form and a note on visa procedures.  See extra note on Visas below.
6. Register your school's vacancies electronically and add information about your school and its hiring policies to the Search Associates schools database.  This will allow teachers to see that you will be interviewing at the Dubai Fair and will allow you password-protected access to the Search Associates candidate database to review teachers' details in advance of the fair (a free service to all schools attending at least one Search Associates recruitment fair).
   Click Here to begin this electronic registration procedure.

Note:  You complete the electronic registration ONCE only for ALL Search Associates Fairs.  Thereafter we request that you update the information on your school's vacancies regularly.  You will have password-protected access to your own school's online information in the Search Associates schools database.

• Teachers / senior teachers / principals with good supporting references, of several nationalities and many different backgrounds, usually with a track record of successful achievement in international schools overseas.
• Teachers and school administrators keen to find a post in the Middle East, Asia or elsewhere.
• Teachers and school administrators now in the Middle East looking for a change.
• Teachers from all standard specialist fields from Nursery / Primary class-teacher through to A-Level or IB HL in all subjects.

In 2008 the Dubai fair attracted approximately 150 candidates.