 Hi everyone! Hello! Here's Linda again from ITTT and today we're talking about something really really interesting and exciting. Teaching English in Asia and all you need to know how to get to Asia, the best countries in Asia where to teach with the highest demand and also the best sort of recruiters and teaching job platforms where you can find the best jobs for teaching English in Asia and I'm super excited about this topic today. I myself I've been pretty much based in Asia since 2012-2013-ish and I spent some time in China and I also and now I'm actually in South Korea and I've been here already for a while so it's going to be six years soon and so I'm so excited to share my experience with you guys and hopefully maybe some of you can also share your experience if you have experience in teaching English in Asia or obviously if you want to know anything about the topic or about TEFL TESOL teaching in general feel free to ask questions in the comments at any time. We are live on Facebook and on YouTube at the same time which is always really exciting so we get a really cool pool of people every week. A lot of people who come here week after week after week like Tiana. Hi Tiana! Love your new profile picture it's really cute and we also get a lot of new people and it's a great mix you know people from all over so if you're watching this let me know where you are in the world right now where you're watching from. I am in South Korea like I said and I'm about an hour and a half south of Seoul it is 10 a.m. on Friday 10 a.m. and yeah this is my usual time for being online my live sessions for ITTT. Oh hi Giuliano! Hi good to see you again! Awesome yeah so please let me know where you're watching from and also maybe you know where you are in your TEFL journey are you TEFL certified or what's the deal and are you already abroad or do you want to go abroad are you already somewhere in Asia have you been to Asia before what countries what countries are you interested let me know and then we can jump right in cool Giuliano's back hey from Illinois great thank you so much Tiana's from Arizona great 6 p.m okay oh yeah because you changed the time right summertime we don't change the time in Korea so it's always the same here cool Dante from Peru awesome Giuliano's in Brazil really really great cool so I take it that most of you are interested in teaching English in Asia that's why you're here that's why you're watching I assume so or you're just interested in you're checking out the options which is always really really great um so yeah Tiana says I've never been outside the U.S. I'm interested in South Korea awesome you're in the right place Tiana PAM in the Philippines awesome hey PAM thanks for tuning in love the Philippines very very beautiful I really want to go back I say that every time I want to go to like everywhere but it's true it's true especially now because I haven't really been outside of Korea for oh my gosh a year and a half so oh it's normally 6 p.m when you go live here oh interesting okay but you changed the time right interesting okay anyway anyway we figured it out I'm glad so yeah let me um make this part a bit bigger so you can see that better and let's jump right in so teaching English in Asia before we jump in a little bit about myself I know for all of you watching you know coming here week after week after week it's the same introduction but we also do get a lot of new people so I don't want them to um not know who I am and won't work before and stuff like that so my name is Linda I'm a travel writer and content creator under the name Linda goes east you can find my personal website at linda goes east.com and on social media you can find me at linda goes east I am from Germany and the US and I am based in South Korea and basically my personal website and social media is about Asia my love for Asia and traveling in Asia and also living in Asia and teaching in Asia in different countries so if you're interested in that like I'm sure you are because you're here so I highly recommend checking that out and then I am also a Teflon TESOL marketing professional for ITTT that stands for international Teflon TESOL training you can find us at TeflonCourse.net and on Instagram and international Teflon training we are a leading Teflon TESOL course provider worldwide we have a great variety of different Teflon courses online in class combined we also have a very new zoom course so lots of different options there I'm sure or I know for a fact that some of you have already taken ITTT Teflon courses so that is really great cool then we have Rebecca here who's interested in Korea awesome and then we have someone in China cool I'm teaching business English online I'm in China great where in China are you at I used to live in Guangzhou and Changsha Hunan province it was really great I love China I'm dying to go back so hopefully hopefully soon but who knows right Walter watching from Haiti awesome great okay all right very very cool so today's topic teaching English in Asia and Harish is in Vietnam cool okay so maybe during the live people who are you know we have some people from Vietnam or in Vietnam people in Philippines where else that was one well I'm in Korea so we can China we can do an exchange of information you know you can add some comments to what I'm saying if you have some other tips for people who want to come to Vietnam for example Harish you can give us some input that would be really great I always love having like an exchange of information not just you listening to what I have to say but I also want to hear from you guys you know your experience so we can work like that and yeah I want to start off by just looking at the map here of course Asia is huge and those are basically the countries that I'm going to focus on today that we see here the little flag pins that's where the demand is the highest in Asia of course there are so many other interesting countries in Asia but I don't have time to get into those today unfortunately but we also have a lot of information about other countries from Asia on our website so you can check that out but those are the how many one two three four five six seven the seven countries that I'm going to focus on in this live session today because like I said the demand is the highest in those places for teaching English as a foreign language so that is South Korea Japan China Hong Kong Taiwan Vietnam and Thailand so that's what we're doing today I hope there's something for you that you find interesting and yeah has so we have somebody teaching in Vietnam I've taught in China and in South Korea is there anybody interested in the other countries that are listed here I'm sure there are Japan is a big one I know a lot of people who are currently in Japan and also Taiwan is great I know some people from Hong Kong or teaching in Hong Kong it's a really really great place for teaching English as a foreign language and also Thailand so yeah that's what we're doing today okay uh then let's just start okay hi Danielle thanks for being here and I have sorted them alphabetically so they are in an alphabetical order um just to let you know so we're starting up with China talking about China so the demand in China is huge and China is actually the biggest market for teaching English as a foreign language it's estimated that there are around 100 000 foreign teachers currently working in China every year so there's obviously a turnover people leaving new people coming but there's a lot of foreign English teachers working in China and there are opportunities pretty much at all kinds of different schools public schools kindergartens boarding schools universities international schools all kinds of private language centers and also all over the country and I actually googled this well so because a lot of people they want to be they want to go to you know when you go to China you want to go to Shanghai or Beijing or like Guangzhou one of the big cities right that's where most people want want to go to but there's actually and I forget the exact number but I think 107 107 definitely more than 100 cities in China with more than 100 with more than 1 million with a population of more than 1 million so that's a lot so because a lot of people think I think um everything outside of you know Beijing or Shanghai are like tiny is like countryside or like tiny towns but that is not the case so um as you can see or as like I said there's more than 100 cities in China with a population of over 1 million people so they're huge cities and most of us have never even heard of them so there's a lot of a lot of places to choose from doesn't only have to be Beijing or Shanghai and also if you if your heart is set on Beijing or Shanghai the competition is very fierce there so you would have to get you know like extra you have to polish your portfolio and things like that um yes so Tiana said there's says there's a bigger demand in smaller towns because nobody wants to go to the small towns yes right so even all the other cities or towns that are under 1 million people population yeah there is a huge demand all over also in smaller cities that's what makes China really really great especially for first-time teachers I think China is a great place to start and get experience and then you can move on to you know different destination or after a couple of years of working in smaller cities in China you can then move to Beijing or Shanghai so then looking at the salary and benefits so in China you can make between 1,000 and 2,500 US dollars a month and most schools also provide free accommodation paid airfares and an end-of-contract bonus so that is very typical the requirements because we got there's some questions here about the requirements so you need to have a bachelor's degree two years of teaching experience actually not teaching experience work experience I should correct that so not teaching experience work experience it can be any kind of work and a taffle certificate of at least 120 hours that's what you need in order to qualify for the work visa in China and we have a question from Yuri is being a native speaker one of the requirements actually for China it is not a requirement it is preferred especially in the big cities like Beijing and Shanghai they um they hire a lot of native English speakers but China is one of those places that still hire a lot of non-native English speakers like for example my colleague Lisa she's from Russia she goes live every Tuesday but this week she actually goes live tomorrow Saturday um I forget Beijing time 10 a.m. Beijing time 12 p.m. Beijing time check it out on our Facebook page or on our YouTube she goes live with a guy currently teaching English in China as a non-native English speaker so if you're a non-native English speaker you're interested in teaching in China I highly recommend checking out that live tomorrow with Lisa and her friend because they know how to get into China as a non-native English speaker so I highly recommend checking that out check it out on our page it's scheduled as an event as well so don't um yeah don't miss it don't miss it it's going to be great all right then for the job hunt typically for getting into China you work or you find jobs through recruitment companies recruiters online job boards and other teaching related websites or also Facebook groups for example and I have listed some of the main or biggest sites that you can search for down here so for example China by teaching is a great website that you can look at for teaching jobs in China China by teaching also jubil and EF EF is a huge um English language chain school chain in China um it's very very well known and it's uh it stands for English first English first China I think they also have um schools in other cities um or other countries I'm sorry but China definitely the most so EF is a great place to start as well as a new teacher because they're very very well structured and organized because they're such a huge company with so so many campuses all over China so that would be a great place to start and yeah check it out jubil China by teaching those are online job boards online job sites specifically for China and also at the end after I finish with all the destinations all the different countries I'm also going to share some of our partner recruiters that we at ITTT work with because a lot of them are also specialized into China specifically because China is the biggest EFL market and also other countries so I'm going to share that at the end and also the link so you can contact them let them know um hey Linda from ITTT sent me and they will take good good care of you all right at the end oh and I also want to mention um the QR code that you see in the upper right corner there um scan it at any time you can get a 30% discount of any Teflor TESOL course because as you can see one of the requirements I can't talk today one of the requirements for teaching English in China is a Tefl certificate of at least 120 dollars and if you want to be in Beijing or Shanghai um you probably need to get more than that because the competition is really fierce so take advantage of the 30% off discount if you cannot scan um the QR code no problem I'm going to share the link in the comment box you can check it out it looks like this you click on it you fill out your application and you get a 30% discount which is a really really great deal so you don't want to miss it sorry does it have to be a four-year bachelor's degree yes a four-year bachelor's degree for China all right good then that's it about China um I would like to move on if there are no more questions about this one but even if you have questions about China feel free to you know throw them at me at any time no problem yes yes Giuliano I just posted it in the comment box you should be able to see it it looks like this it doesn't show up in the comment box I hope it does it should you can scroll scroll up a little bit and it should show up there let me know if it doesn't then I'll try again because that's important we don't want to miss the discount we don't want to miss the discount right so Giuliano let me know if it shows up there if not I'm I'm I can oh I should pin it I should pin it hold on how do I pin it oh you should pin it yeah I should hold on I think because I'm not on Facebook hold on let me do this with my phone I need to go in and pin it with my phone I think hold on one second because I'm using a streaming platform oh and is it a four year bachelor's degree for all countries no not for all countries it's going to depend on the country give me one second to pin it then it's going to be a lot easier for sure for people okay I'm in there now okay I'm going to post it again and then I'm going to pin it let me see if that works why can't I pin it uh I don't know how to pin it can somebody else pin it I don't know what I'm doing wrong oh man technical difficulties technical difficulties yeah I can only click on it I can't pin it oh no hold on maybe on the computer let's figure this out together because that's important we don't want people to miss out on the discount so that's a good point of pinning pinning it okay even on the computer I can't pin it I'm so sorry I don't know I'm gonna figure it out until next time and then I'll pin it so sorry okay let me check back with you do you have to do it before you go live no I don't think so because normally you can just pin comments I've seen that before I don't know why it's not working right now I'm sorry but I'm gonna try try for next time that's gonna be my homework trying to figure out that anyway let's move on so next we have Hong Kong and even though you know China Hong Kong they have a special relationship things are actually a little bit different for working in Hong Kong the demand is very similar but I mean of course imagine the size difference China is huge Hong Kong is pretty much a city um spread out on different islands so it's a very very different situation but there are also great opportunities at especially at private language centers also public schools kindergarten boarding schools universities and international schools the salary is also very very different um is also very different in Hong Kong so you can make between $2,300 up to $10,000 but that's really the top so that's at working at international schools after like loads of teaching experience with a lot of different qualifications and those kinds of jobs are also very rare or you know it would take you a couple of years to get there but it is possible so also benefits in Hong Kong you get housing allowance typically you also get paid round trip airfare and that's the great thing for example if you work for the net scheme I'm also going to mention that in a little bit more in detail but the net scheme includes airfare for up to four family members which is really great you also get a relocation allowance for being able to move all your stuff to Hong Kong and back home I suppose and a stipend for medical insurance coverage the requirements for Hong Kong are similar to China so it's a four-year bachelor's degree two years of teaching experience and a TEFL certificate of at least 120 hours so that's the same China and Hong Kong however also for Hong Kong you do not have to be a native English speaker we actually recently we also have an ITTT TEFL blog and we always invite our alumni to share their stories and there's a lot of non-native English speakers who are or have taught English in Hong Kong and you can read about their experience on our blog it's really interesting okay Alaya is asking how many countries will you be covering I'll be covering I think it was seven countries um and Hong Kong is the second one yes Tiana thank you seven hi also Linda another Linda greetings from Malaysia hi oh heck Matzila is here good morning I hope you're well I hope you're well too summer programs um I think definitely they do exist but they are probably a little rare so you need to hunt them down um however I imagine because Hong Kong is a little bit more open in terms of their visa situation right so you can actually a lot of countries get um visa-free entry into Hong Kong so I imagine that summer jobs won't be that difficult to find so I'm not 100 sure most jobs are definitely like long more long term like a year contract even two years in some cases um and summer jobs summer programs are a little bit more rare but they do exist then for job hunting in Hong Kong also similar to China definitely recruitment companies online job boards like what I mentioned here for example jobs db and indeed are great well sorry here jobs db and indeed are great for Hong Kong and then also there is the net scheme program that places um foreign English teachers into schools in Hong Kong and that is from the education bureau so you can check that out when you google um Hong Kong net scheme you'll find the official website from the education bureau you can check that out and those two websites for job hunt and like I said I'm also going to mention a list of different recruiters that we at ittt partnered with who can also help you find a job in Hong Kong okay so that's Hong Kong for you let's see what we have next Japan all right Japan is another very very popular one very competitive especially the jet program um and also in general but also Japan is another great um option for people who are non-native English speakers because it's not a requirement to be um a native English speaker or to hold a passport from an English speaking country um the demand is very high in Japan and typically if you teach in Japan you would either work as an alt teacher so an assistant language teacher in a public school school or an English conversation teacher in a private language academy so those are pretty much the two types of English teachers that you will encounter in Japan the salaries are also very good some of the highest salaries to be found anywhere in Asia between 2000 to 6000 us dollars a month and you also typically get paid airfares housing or housing allowances health insurance and a contract completion bonus the requirements for teaching in Japan are typically a degree a four-year degree in any subject so it doesn't have to be English or TESOL or TEFL or anything like that excuse me um you need to be fluent in the English language obviously so fluent not native which is great for a lot of people who dream about living in Japan it's not really it's not a big um restriction there in terms of nationality and you also should have a strong desire and willingness to pass on your language knowledge to your students so yeah great requirements not very strict job hunt similar again recruitment companies online job boards like this one is a very very big one gaijin pot um i believe they don't only have jobs but it's also like a blog all about japan for people who want to move to japan so check that out if you're interested in gaijin pot or check out gaijin pot if you're interested in japan and also jobs in japan sorry it's covered now give it a second yeah jobs in japan so that's another very big um job board for teaching jobs in japan and then also the jet program is a very a very big program that's the um japan what is it called japan english i forgot what it stands for jet program hold on i should know this why did i forget jet program stands for the japan exchange and teaching program there we go there's so many programs and acronyms sometimes you forget or get confused anyway that's a very big um government funded program that also places foreign english teachers into schools in japan and i know quite a lot of people who um have taught through the jet program it's a very very popular option um yeah juliana asks is the cost of living higher than other countries so yes um japan's cost of living is high especially you know um tokyo i think is the one of the most expensive places to live in the world so um definitely that's why the salaries are higher the same sort of also goes for hong kong it's a little bit more expensive um not as much as japan but that's why the salaries are higher there um but you do get you know your housing or housing allowance you do get paid airfare and all these bonuses so it's not too bad um but another problem that i've heard especially living in tokyo or bigger cities in japan you know apartments tend to be a little bit smaller so um just something to think about yeah and i think how to do it in terms of rent is also especially in tokyo or like bigger cities it all depends on the distance like from the apartment to the subway station and like what kind of subway line it is so there's like more you know popular lines less popular lines and so that's kind of also how the apartment costs what the apartment cost depends on the the distance from public transportation so i thought that was also very interesting yeah good so just recap gaijin pod jobs and jobs in japan check that out and also the jet program i think especially those programs are a great way to sort of get your foot into a country when you're new to teaching so the jet program in japan is great um then the net scheme that we just talked about for hong kong is great um and i actually did a live session about those kinds of teaching programs before in the past you can check that out in our playlist it's called like the best um government funded teaching programs or something like that you'll find it on our facebook page in the video library and also um on youtube so that's something really great to check out all right richard i had three years in south korea sold degu and busan excellent country you should go yeah i agree i've been in korea for almost six years i agree uh korea is great um also great especially i'm going to talk about that in a minute but um yeah i'm just gonna wait until then yeah definitely agree okay next up okay well there we go south korea um yeah so oh and i didn't change this part i'm sorry that's the same so that's a mistake it's not an alt teacher so typically in korea you would work for either a public school or a private school and they're actually not called alts so um yeah and if you basically work for um a public school you would go through the epic or talk program mentioned here and um private schools they're also called hagwans you would basically either find those jobs through recruiters or also facebook groups for example or online searches things like that yeah so then the salary and benefits also some of the highest salaries in asia between 1600 us dollars to 2400 and there's a lot of opportunities to sort of top that up as well um and make even more then you also get really really great benefits when teaching english in korea such as paid airfare paid housing there's also a pension scheme and end of contract bonuses so with the pension scheme that's basically the national pension scheme that everybody pays into also koreans so koreans and if you work there you also pay into the pension scheme and what's great about that when you leave korea you get all that money back so typically you can either collect it at the airport or you can sort of go like to the i don't know if it's like a tax office or like the pension office or whatever you go there and then give them your bank information from back home and then you receive the money a few weeks later into your bank account back home but it's really great especially you know if you spend a couple of years in korea and then you're like okay i'm ready i'm going back home or i'm going somewhere else you get a huge chunk of money back so that's a great like um yeah like a startup money for like back home right because when you return you've taught abroad you go back home there's a lot of things that you need to buy again maybe you need to find housing you need to buy a car so that's a great thing to have that little pension money as a goodbye gift from korea so that's really interesting i think the requirements are also a four-year degree in any subject a teffel certificate and a but yeah that's the problem for korea you need to have a passport from certain english-speaking countries to be eligible for the official work visa so um that's basically canada um america us um ireland uk australia new zealand and south africa so those seven countries um if you have a passport from one of those countries you can um go and teach english in korea basically if you don't there is one exception for indian nationals and i covered that a little bit earlier in the or in an earlier live there is this little like loophole and that's for the um for the epic program so indian citizens do also qualify under certain conditions so that's also great and yeah typically it is a four-year degree for teaching in korea but the talk program one of the teaching placement programs um also allows people who have completed two-year or two-year degree so an associate's degree so yeah then for korea job hunting you would also uh you can go through recruiters you can also go through online job boards and you can go through the the epic or the talk program and these are some really great um online job boards we have davis esl cafe we have korea bridge we have work and play korea and we have gone to korea so those are some really great websites to look into and also some of our recruiters recruitment partners that i'm going to be mentioning at the end also specialize into korea so you should also check them out i really like um working with recruiter recruiters personally and um because they are at no cost to the teacher so the school always pays the recruiter for their services but the teacher doesn't pay anything so that's really good uh tiana asks did you go through a recruiter if so which one i did i don't remember exactly which one because actually my experience was not very good with my recruiter um it wasn't like a scam situation or anything but i just thought they were not i don't remember it was such a long time ago um i don't know they just weren't really that professional i think there was like a lot of miscommunication so i don't recommend the one that i used um but i recommend i recommend the ones that i'm going to be mentioning at the end so stay tuned for that but yeah with recruiters you know it's always like hit or miss as well and you don't have to stick with just one recruiter i mean you're free to contact as many um as you like yes i i've heard of corvia too and they are also um partnered with the epic program i believe so they're also they're definitely really great good okay then we have thailand so in thailand most teachers work at government schools or in private language academies pretty typical so either public or private school you can choose and also most positions can be found in bencock and chiang mai and in pu ket the demand is really high thailand they're always searching and thailand is also one of those places where you can go and find jobs as a non-native english speaker so that it's not a requirement to be a native english speaker to go and teach in thailand which is really great the salary and benefits for thailand are you're typically going to make between 800 and 1000 us dollars per month and there aren't going to be many benefits unfortunately however think about um you know the the cost of living is very very low in thailand compared to other places so in asia you always have to kind of think about you know east asia is like um japan korea china hong kong and sometimes also taiwan are in that category so the cost of living there is a little bit more higher compared to south east asia where you have thailand and vietnam and like cambodia and places like that so even though maybe 800 dollars doesn't sound like much in thailand it's going to get you very very far actually um yeah then the requirements are typically to have a degree in any subject a four-year degree and a teffel certificate job hunting same as with the others you would go either through a recruiter or online job boards and here are some that i recommend we have a jarn that's a big one in thailand and also teaching thailand so it says it's a free job board for expet teachers in thailand so those are two really great resources to check out for thailand we have brett who says oh sorry i'm late good evening hi thanks for joining that's awesome so today we're talking about for anybody who's joined late um how to teach english in asia but you probably know that from the title down here up here um so and um yeah we're at thailand at the moment i have sorted them alphabetically so i think we're almost so there's thailand and in two more countries i'm gonna talk about but you can always watch the replay so you can go back after the live and then just watch it from the beginning they always stay on our facebook page the live videos and also um on our youtube channel so no problem there and yeah that's it for thailand then we have taiwan and what's interesting about taiwan is actually that the government of taiwan announced an ambitious plan to make the country bilingual chinese and english by 2030 so they're really pushing english education at the moment a lot so you would find that the demand in taiwan in taiwan is really really good at the moment and you would typically um work for private language schools in taiwan they do not have as of yet some kind of english um english teaching program you know like the talk program or the epic program or jet program in japan unfortunately taiwan does not have something like that at the moment but uh maybe they will since they have this ambitious plan so who knows um salary and benefits are also not too bad so you can make between 1500 and 3000 us dollars a month and you would also get certain benefits like paid airfare paid housing and end of contract bonuses in taiwan um also something to keep in mind taiwan um is an island it's quite small it's not too big so most jobs will you know you can find most jobs in the big cities like taiwan uh taipei tai chung um kaoxiung who was saying that right um so those places are you know have the biggest um demand typically um but yeah as taiwan is quite small you know you can get around very very easily they also have excellent public transportation they've high speed trains you know connecting one end of the island with the other so it's really really convenient to be there and yeah live there the requirements for teaching english in taiwan one you have to be over 20 years old and you have to be a native english speaker with a passport from the us the uk ireland south africa canada new zealand or australia so that's similar with korea right and also a university degree in any subject so four years four year university degree for um the job hunting process it's the same you would go either with a recruiter or online job boards and some recommended online job boards are tea lit dot com again dave's is al cafe or career jet so those are some recommended ones that you can check out for teaching jobs in taiwan then we have a question from brett how are travel restrictions are things looking good for summer not just taiwan but worldwide including korea china so the one thing is you know um i know for fact korea i think still doesn't have travel like tourist visas we still don't issue them however you know if you're starting a teaching contract it's a little bit of a different story because you basically have a long-term visa you have a an address you have a house yeah a place to live so it's a little bit different so in that case you can enter and you can i think you still go through two weeks of quarantine and i think i mentioned that before i have some friends who started teaching english who moved to korea and started teaching english in korea um during the pandemic and um they made it they flew over and they spent two weeks in quarantine and then they started teaching so um the demand for teachers is still very very high in taiwan in korea and china people are still getting hired but you would just get through um the quarantine process yeah you're vaccinated yay congrats i'm not sure you know um if you would have to quarantine then i think you still would have to maybe because the vaccination process in korea is very slow um and i'm not sure you know how they handle people who are vaccinated already coming from abroad i'm not sure um i would imagine because it's it goes very slowly that you might still have to go through quarantine just because it's an official thing you know um that could be the case but uh even so it's not too bad in korea you actually get like a care package it's really cute you get like i don't know 15 ramen cup noodles and like all this food and hand sanitizers and masks and i don't know what you get but it's yeah yeah i think you can expect you can still expect to you know quarantine because it's a very new situation right people don't really know how to deal with it people who are already vaccinated you don't know if you can still transmit the disease i mean i don't know i'm not a health professional i'm not you know i have no idea but um i'm just thinking because i know uh korean culture and things the government does so i would say that you might still have to quarantine i don't know summer is still a few months away might you know things might change until then but especially korea they are thinking about or it looks like we might go into a fourth wave um very soon cases are rising with spring you know people are going out we just had cherry blossom season so people went out you know for cherry blossom watching like spring picnics and all that stuff so numbers are rising in korea at the moment and the government is fearing a fourth wave at the moment so who knows who knows but yeah that's just my opinion i'm not a health professional um that's just from my experience okay good so that's taiwan just want to um quickly recap and just mention those platforms again so we have tea lit dot com dave's is al cafe and career jet um and we also work with some recruiters that focus on taiwan and you can get their information at the end so then we have vietnam and vietnam is the last one i'm going to talk about today um the demand is also really really good in vietnam also at the moment so most teachers in vietnam are employed by private language schools and most positions can be found in ho chi min city and hanoi so the two biggest cities in the north and south um salaries also not too bad so you can make between 1200 and 2000 us dollars a month which sounds actually really really high for a southeast asian country and you can make uh you can get a you know make a good life there uh because cost of living is also very very low in vietnam also what's great you get free health care and a signing and completion bonus of your teaching contract so really really good requirements for vietnam you do have to be a native english speaker you also need to have a four-year bachelor's degree and many employers will also insist on a teflor tea salt certificate of at least 120 hours duration job hunt um you know similar it's this it's the same for pretty much every country but either recruiters or your own online job board search and really good job boards for vietnam are again dais isl cafe so that's a good one for all of asia pretty much dais isl cafe and then we have vietnam teaching jobs which is also specifically for vietnam teaching positions so yeah here we go that is it all the countries um that i want to cover in detail paten asks is there a session about europe spain or check republic um i did a session about what was that the best countries to teach in 2021 and i think i mentioned the check republic there and i also mentioned spain and other european countries in my life session about the teaching programs because there is a teaching program in spain there is a teaching program in france um so yes i mentioned some of these countries in other life sessions so check them out that is the life session about the best countries to teach in 2021 and the teaching programs we do not have a live yet specifically about europe there might be one in the future that's a great idea okay good let's see oh those are the efl recruiters that i mentioned that partner with it ttt don't i don't want i don't want to forget those those are very very important so yeah we work with a lot of them as you can see some um are very much focused on china but also other countries in asia and also worldwide so do check them out i'm gonna share the link with you guys um to that page and you can find their contact information there here so here we go so you can find our efl recruitment partners at teflacour.net slash efl minus esl minus jobs so do check them out there's a lot especially for china um what's really interesting maybe for some people this one i think it's this one yeah wanderlust um china that one is basically a um sort of like an au pair program so you can go to china and contracts range from three months all the way to 12 months so it's great for people who want something short term and you would live with a um local chinese host family and i believe the aim is to teach the kids in the family english and you also get chinese classes mendren mentoring classes so that's a great option for people who you know want to go to china or they're not sure if china is a good fit or they're looking for something for just you know a few months um that might be a really good program so check them out and also the others so yeah reach to teach is in many different countries so is esl starter footprints also gm they're all in different countries also international recruit um and this one prudential recruitment what is it called prudent prudential and then there's prudential first there we go prudential first recruitment and there's a couple that are specifically for china so check those out those are really great and let them know hey uh linda from ittt sent you okay then let's do a bit of a q and a here before i'm signing off and i also just want to um mention the 30% off again um scan the qr code or and i wasn't able to um pin it unfortunately or you know use the link i'm going to share it one more time into the comment box you get 30% off any tefl or tesol course from itt so great deal here good all right i hope um you found it informative today um those are really the seven most um like the seven countries with the highest demand for english teachers of course aja is a huge continent there's so many other amazing countries that i did not mention today but um you can also find positions you know i also hear that cambodia is great at the moment lots of um a high demand as well and then you can also find other positions you know in other asian countries as well um maybe there's not as many available but you can certainly find them so check it out all right myki has a question linda what about if i completed my course is there any chance to apply with the help of itt so you mean completed a different um tefl course from a different company is that what you're talking about so all of our itt course grads have lifetime job assistance so we would help our course grads um with finding a job um also even you know lifetime it never expires so even if you don't teach for a couple of years and then you decide teaching after five years then you can still um contact us and we will be able to help you crystal says is it too early to contact recruiters now for positions early next year i think it's never too early to start looking into things um you know they also typically what they do is they um get your resume you know and then they would um keep your file so then when because some different countries also have different hiring seasons so it depends on where you want to go but i would say you know one year from now one year in advance isn't that too early i think it's actually a great time you can start reaching out to different recruiters and be like this is when i want to go abroad um and they can also um tell you their timeline right so i don't think it's too early definitely reach out to as many places as you can right i think it's good okay myki with itt yeah so then you um get lifetime job assistance so once you complete the course we definitely help you find a job and um yeah also one of you will get access to our database of recruiters and all that stuff so no problem there we get you covered great juliana says the link is working out that is great awesome crystal you're welcome awesome yeah so i hope it was informative today you learned something new um i had fun let's see if there's a last question coming in and then i'm signing off for today but yeah it was fun um let me make myself bigger so you can see me better yeah okay oh juliana says thank you so much great juliano as always thanks so much brett you're welcome thanks so much to you guys for tuning in week after week it's really great to see you know familiar faces new faces it's awesome it's awesome also do let me know if you have any topic requests for any other live sessions sometimes i also just do like uh random or like just general q and a sessions where you can ask me questions about anything sometimes i do that sometimes like today i have a topic and i prepare some slides for you guys with information so it really depends on how i feel and what i want to talk about but i always love talking about asia you know and if you have any other questions more specifically you know not about teaching but like living or traveling in asia hit me up on my personal account linda goes east you know on social media or linda goes east dot com i love talking about asia different countries different cultures traveling travel tips what it's like living here you know all those thoughts that i have i love i love sharing them i love love exchanging information and exchanging thoughts so feel free to do that and um yeah then i hope to see you all again next week oh juliano juliano says maybe the types of ittt courses sure i did one about that um but it was probably october last year so maybe we should do an update one and update it um session because we also always kind of update our courses and change a little bit you know tweet them we always keep up to date and listen to customer you know thoughts and feedback and so we always improve them and maybe there are some changes now that they're different from october so yeah that's something i should do definitely definitely good good idea good idea okay my key last question linda what about master in ittt the master package we have a master package um that is uh let me pull that up let me pull that up for you the master and i'm gonna share the link with you and then you can check it out so basically you'll find a lot of information here when you look at this link here you'll find a lot of information about the master package that we offer it's a really really great package it's for people who um really see themselves you know teaching english long term they're looking for the best possible um foundation in training to start their career so i highly recommend it harish completed ittt in 2011 it's a great opportunity for all cool congrats thank you so much i think i completed mine in oh it was later i think it was 2014 2014 also a long time so yeah that's wait 10 years 10 years ago congrats awesome love that okay guys thank you so much for joining today i had fun as always love um chatting with you on a friday morning uh i think i'm gonna go ahead and sign off soon and yeah feel free to reach out to me i'd love to have a chat with you guys more about asia and korea and all things tuffle and yeah i hope to see you again next week i'll be here same time same place and also please don't forget to check out my colleague lisa's live session tomorrow she's going to talk with a ittt graduate currently teaching english in china um as a non-native english speaker so if you're a non-native english speaker wanting to teach in china definitely don't miss that it's going to be great i have a great feeling about it so it's going to be very informative awesome thank you so much have a nice day as well thank you michelle thanks awesome okay signing off now for real for real this is the part where i start rambling and i don't stop so stopping it right now thanks so much for tuning in have a great weekend and i hope to see you next week bye