TESOL job search sites

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There is now a plethora of TEFL job sites, so many in fact that some schools and employers are now beginning to seek alternative channels for recruiting their teachers.

Why?

- Often the sites charge disproportionately high fees for the jobs ads.
- Busy recruiters don't have time to sift through the 100s of teacher CVs on the job sites.
- Teachers rarely follow the instructions in the job ads correctly and therefore by displaying their ignorance, their applications go unheeded.

Other difficulties facing job seekers are those of choosing a TESOL course. The prices charged for on-line courses are scandalous when compared to the operational costs (sometimes not more than £6 a month for the hosting of the web site, and the salary for a one-man-show). They are often not much cheaper than a real, face-to-face course., which is now demanded by the schools offering the better paid jobs.

The majority of TESOL teachers are looking for opportunities to teach abroad - which reflects the focus of most of the EFL job sites. Scams abound, however, and many of the job sites have been set up by none other than the TESOL institutes themselves. For a job at home in the UK, one way is to use the power of Google and use such search words as EFL, TESOL, TEFL, job, jobs, UK and do some systematic researching, but the best jobs are advertised here: http://jobs.tes.co.uk/home.aspx

Whether it is a course you are looking for or a job, be extremely careful and check out these
Ten Tips for a good TESOL teaching job
and all about
TESOL College Scams
Please bookmark my posting, and if you come across any courses or jobs to avoid, do come back here and warn us all about it.