Taiwan - 4 Answers
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The following are the main sites for looking for teaching positions in Taiwan. Tealit is one of the best for Taiwan. As for your education, it really depends on what degree you have. If you have a recognized degree from an English speaking country, than it will be easy to work in a cram school. You can try posting your resume on tealit.com and see what happens. http://www.tealit.com/ http://www.eslcafe.com/ http://www.eslteachersboard.com/...
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What qualification do you have? What kind of work are you looking for? These thing will affect your situation. BTW isn't it B.A. ?????????? OK, I am a very sloppy writer but: "i don't have a b/a ad that is provoing to be a problem." ???? Hope you aren't looking for work as a teacher!
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The market is getting tougher in the last 2 years particularily and there is actual competition for jobs. If you dont have a B/A it is easy to be knocked off the shortlist. Try going out to bushibans in rural areas with less foreigners... or hope to find a newly opened mom and pop bushiban outfit inside the cities who need a foreigner face for market cred more than they care to follow rules -just don't expect to get any job satisfaction at that kind of setup. Government and public schools and private schools and **established** bushibans in major cities will not look at you twice after hearing no B/A. In order to get a work permit here you need to have at least a BA. You can try and take chinese classes and get a student visa that way, but expect that you will not make much money or be able to travel when you want if you do it that way and if you get caught teaching at a school with a student visa you will be booted out, not allowed back in, a big black mark inside your passport which may not impress other customs agents, and your school will get a heavy fine. But most students here do it anyways, and at the moment it seems tolerated, but the rules exist to be enforced whenever some idiot foreigner does something that upsets the authorities. I advise against putting your a$$ in that sling... --If some places were desperate they may accept you without any permit, but you will have to do visa runs every month at your own cost, which could be good for if you want to travel but this tends to make employers here nervous (understandably so) as many backpackers often ditch their contracts early at the visa run point... leaving the employer up s*** creek without a paddle and explaining to angry parents and already overstressed chinese partners about why the guy didn't show up, and giving the rest of us who actually follow the rules a bad rep. The visa run guys are a disappearing breed, but still exist in the lower-rep schools I think. PRC, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam are currently better bets for people who want to teach English without BA's. (with the downside being less money and a somewhat worse quality of life than here in some ways- but better in other ways.) --But some positions may still be here in Taiwan for non BA people.. its just much more difficult than in the past. I highly suggest getting a BA before coming to Asia to work. Otherwise you may not have the ability to correct grammatical mistakes to the standard business people here (and in the rest of the world) NEED for clear communication and negotiation, and you will have no method to access many of the better jobs. At the very least you should take a 1 month 100 hour TESOL course and get a certificate and some teaching practice in. If you don't like drawing, reading or writing or dancing the funky chicken for little brown people's amusement - don't become an English teacher.
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Why do you NEED to find work in Taiwan? Are you going to be one of those loser foreigners in Taiwan teaching English illegally and womanizing the country?
