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Looking for work in Teaching English
Looking for work in Teaching English
Many web sites offer English teaching jobs, including Dave's ESL Cafe , Footprints , TEFL.com , Happy Cats TEFL One of many employment discussion lists is TESLJob . See also the training section above; sites listed there with indexes of courses also have jobs ads. There are also many sites for specific countries or regions; see the Work sections of country listings.
Some recommend that one should travel to the part of the country you want to teach and get to meet and interview with some of the staff. Many times a series of photographs can be misleading as to what an area or school might look like. Traveling to the city will allow you to see the buildings and streets, understand whether or not the location is a city or countryside, get a feel for the housing and school conditions available, and maybe even talk to existing ESL teachers about their impressions and suggestions. For most people this is not a good option as it costs a lot of money and many haven't really decided the exact location for their work.
Another option is to narrow down your areas and then send out letters of interest with your resume included. This option does require sending out many letters with the expectation that a lot of places will not have openings at this time. Since it is well known that most job openings never get listed in papers or web sites, there is a very good chance you will turn up a great opening that otherwise would never have appeared in media. I lived in one city in China that has more than 15 schools that hire foreign ESL teachers and I have never seen any ads listed on Dave's or other sites for at least 8 of them.
Within some countries the State, Province or other entity in charge of education for many cities will also assist schools in finding staff. Contacting the education department directly can at times surface names of schools needing foreign ESL teachers.
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