 Now we're going to jump into the nitty-gritty of TEFL and TSOL contracts, teaching contracts, what to watch out for before signing. So I'm going to go through a lot of important things that you need to watch out for and I'm going to show you real contract examples and how the stuff is written in the contract and how you can find it and what to watch out for with examples. I think that's going to make the most sense and it's the most useful and like I said at the end I'm going to have a whole checklist of all of the things that I talked about that you can save or you know screenshot or I think I'm also going to share it in the comments later as like a PDF So you can just print that out or save that for you for when you need it when you are going to sign a contract. All right Maybe the first thing that I want to talk about before or Yeah, just a disclaimer Obviously these are contracts not from ITTT that I'm going to show you the examples. They're just samples that I found online and also just Never accept the job without a contract, right? I think that goes without saying so even if you're already in the country Or no matter where you are no matter where you go never Just start a job without signing a contract. That's just a very bad idea It's also illegal. So you can get into trouble in the worst case. You could get deported from the country There's fines. There's all these other things. So and also for you personally because you need to have a binding contract as proof You know that states Your salary working hours and all those things so that your employer can't take advantage of you So never accept the job without a contract Hello Superpong hi, thanks for joining gets you from Thailand. Awesome. All right. So the first one that we're going to talk about today is The contract written in English and easy to understand. So that's the first thing that you need to make sure of and Here's an example and it might be a little small depending on if you're watching this full screen or how are you watching this? But basically this is a contract For school in China. So you can see there's Chinese on it, but there's also English So that's the first thing if they give you a contract that's only in Chinese or only in their language That's a bad thing right because you can't read it So don't sign a contract if it's not an English and you don't understand it, right? So that's the very first thing and then also very important, you know Do the translations of both languages make sense? Do they match? Is it the same content, right? Because a lot of times for example if you sign a contract like this one For China, for example, it's Chinese and then English. So if there's any issue only pretty much the Chinese version would count because it's China and Likely people don't really speak English there and like from a legal standpoint the Chinese text is what's Valid and so that's gonna count if you have any legal issues So you need to make sure that the Chinese version or the native language version also matches the English version, right? And so how can you do that if you don't speak Chinese or if you don't speak Korean or whatever? if you look for the job through a Recruiter you can ask your recruiter to have a look over the contract and make sure that it's good You can also if you know somebody obviously you can speak the language you could ask a friend family member to have a look over it You could also in the most simplest and easiest case you could just You know take a picture of it and like Google translate it and just make sure it's you know the same Or you could always pay somebody to have a look at it You know translate it and make sure but Those are just some ideas how you can do that. So Yeah, I think that's about it for the first point thinking feel like I forgot something Let me just think about it for a second Yeah, I think that's it though So just to remember if they only give you a contract and it's not in English at all There's no English do not sign it And just read through always read through the whole contract in general, right before signing anything But that's the first thing that you want to make sure look at the contract is it in English or Is it only in the native language of the country and do the translations make sense, right? So Try and verify. Oh one other way you could do that is by like going in either a foot Facebook group There's a lot of Facebook groups for like EFL teachers in China EFL teachers in Korea and whatnot And you could upload or you can find someone there to maybe have a look at the contract Where you could upload your contract? Obviously you would black out any sensitive information like the school name your own name and like personal information black that out, but you could upload that and you know ask people About advice and if they think this is a legit contract. So that's another thing Good Thanks so much for watching We are ITTT the leading provider for Tefal and TESOL training courses If you like this video, please subscribe by clicking the button down here and click on any of the videos here on the left For more interesting teaching tips for getting certified to teach English abroad and online