I applied to this company via their official email. Three months later, I received an answer via WhatsApp apologising for a delay in replying (the author claimed that my message got sent to spam), asking whether I am still looking for employment and saying that they are “very interested” in meeting me. I find it difficult to believe that my email was languishing in the spam folder for almost three months and was conveniently discovered when the academy found itself in a sudden need for teachers. The academy uses Gmail and the Gmail spam messages are automatically deleted after 30 days. Anyway, I answered that yes I am still looking for employment. Next thing, “as a preliminary stage for the selection process” I was asked to send a voice message (again via WhatsApp) telling about myself so they can hear me speaking English. I sent a short voice message. The answer was that they are looking for a teacher with a more “native” pronunciation, whatever that means, and that was it. So I didn’t even get to the stage of the interview, which is probably for the best.
In retrospect, it should have been quite obvious where it was heading as this establishment positions itself as “Academia de Inglés con Nativos” (“English Academy with Native Speakers”), apparently ignoring the fact that it is illegal under European Law to discriminate on the basis of (one’s first) language. But here in Spain native speakerism is alive and kicking.
