When you have finalized everything in your home country, you will no doubt be on the plane to KSA and you will arrive at the airport based on where you will be teaching, but we will run through the process for Manarat Riyadh.
1. Your plane lands at Riyadh International Airport and you have not been given any contact details previously or information about what will happen. You do not have any form of communication. i.e. Sim card for KSA. If you don't speak Arabic this makes your situation even more difficult as there is hardly anyone at the airport (based on our experience anyway) that speaks English.
2. If you are fortunate enough to contact someone at the school to arrange to pick you up then the average waiting time in the airport is 2 hours, but this could less or more.
3. When someone gets you from the airport eventually, you will be taken to a hotel in Riyadh near the school. You are booked stay in the hotel for 3 days only, no one informs you of the arrangements and what will happen next. In the recruitment process they tell you that the school will assist you in getting a place stay and this is not true at all. When you contact the recruitment team they will just tell you someone will come and pick you up - no number, no name, just 'someone will come and pick you up'! And in most cases no one from the school will come to you - just the person that dropped you at the hotel the first day.
4. After 3 night the hotel will tell you need to pay for the next night or move out of the hotel. Bear in mind that you are in the country only 72 hours of less and you are expected to either pay out of your own pocket to stay at the hotel or find a place to stay, and if you do not speak Arabic or have any contacts at the school then you are in a really difficult situation. You are also expected to get to the school on your own some how for your first day at school.
In the next part we will discuss what happens on your first day at school.
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