 Linda here from ITTT back again this week for another live session. Welcome welcome. You might notice a different background today and we're also live at a very different time than normally because I'm actually in Germany right now back in my hometown for a couple of weeks visiting family and friends whereas normally regularly normally usually I'm back in South Korea but now for a couple weeks I'm gonna be in Germany so things are gonna look a little bit different around here but don't worry we're back everything's normal so thank you so much for joining maybe because this is a different time I'm gonna have a lot more newer viewers perhaps so welcome welcome if you're seeing me for the first time hi my name is Linda I'm here for ITTT and yeah first off I always say don't forget to like and subscribe so you never miss any of our upcoming live sessions this is a weekly thing except for the last two weeks that I was off and yeah also let me know in the comment section where are you watching from right now leave a comment down below we're actually live on Facebook and on YouTube at the same time right now so feel free to leave a comment and tell me where you're watching from today what the time is there I'm really curious because like I said this is a very unusual time for me to go live normally so I'm very curious as to where you guys are from today and see if it's any different than normally but yeah I'm also gonna give you guys a brief introduction about who I am and what I do because I think we have a couple of new people here hi Kiki how are you doing from India cool we have Rahul from India okay nice nice welcome welcome I'm glad you're here that's great all right I'm just gonna also right of the bat sharing this right now always during our live sessions we have a 30% off opportunity off of all taffle and t-sol courses from ITTT so what you can do is you can scan this QR code right here or I'm also gonna leave a link for you guys in the comments it ends with FB live minus Linda and then you know it's the correct link and this will get you 30% off any teflor t-sol course from ITTT that you're interested in all right very cool we also have Jing here from the Philippines and Pedro hi it's been a while it has okay we have Lee from the Philippines with Amitava how are you doing 5 p.m. and cold coats and normally it's very early for you right when I go live yeah long time no see for two weeks I know so like I said maybe you've missed that in the beginning I'm staying in Germany right now that's why the background is different that's why the time is different for the stream excuse me visiting family and I'm going to be here for a couple of weeks more so we're gonna see us maybe at a similar time next week as well Pedro says it's early in the morning I'm sorry Pedro apologize yeah so things are a little bit different this week but we're gonna make it work we're gonna make it work because I think today is also going to be a really interesting topic but first off if anybody's watching this and is new I just want to introduce myself real quick and maybe I can do it yeah maybe like this or is this weird but anyway and keep your comments coming in the comment section where you're watching from but my name is Linda and I'm a travel writer content creator creator also language teacher and that side of things is under the name Linda goes east and if you're interested in living in Asia teaching English in Asia specifically I highly recommend you check out um linda goes east.com my personal website and also an instagram at Linda goes east and very active over there as well as many of you know and I really appreciate you guys appreciate you guys always checking what I'm up to um and yeah I'm originally from Germany and the US my mom is German my dad's American and right now I am in Germany but I'm usually based in South Korea so for summer vacation I am spending my time here in Germany right now and I'm also a Teflon TESOL marketing professional um that's why I'm here for you guys doing these live sessions for ITTT and ITTT stands for international Teflon TESOL training as many of you guys know many of you guys are graduates of our courses so you might be familiar or some of you might not so this is also really good and a great opportunity to kind of learn more a little bit about what ITTT does um but yeah our website is tefloncourse.net and we are a leading Teflon TESOL course provider worldwide and we've been around for many years since the 1990s and we were operating worldwide so there you go let's have a look at the comments um yeah so Amitabha says by the way linda where are you in Germany visiting your motherland I am so I am in the south it's kind of an hour from Munich so that's where I am and Lee says 30% off is a great deal grab this opportunity I got my certification in 2018 oh congratulations thanks for saying that um Lee I appreciate that yes and 30% off is really a great deal we only share this uh big discount during our life sessions you're not going to find this anywhere else so um it's definitely a great opportunity and you should grab it um if you're not yet certified and you're thinking about um pursuing this career so yeah oh and Jinx is happy to tell I'm in my last unit of 120 hours course oh my gosh congratulations almost done wow that's that's sweet to celebrate Jinx that's amazing perfecting congratulations all right thank you Lee all right uh let's see yes so today's topic is all about those people who want to teach English abroad but you don't have any experience you come from a totally different field but you're like hey I hear so much about teaching English abroad and Teflon Tiso and I really want to do it I want to go abroad I want to change my life I want to do something totally different but I don't have any experience so that is what we're going to talk about today how it's possible in tips matrix so there we go Rahul says I'm going to Thailand for job hunting complete at this July oh my god that's so exciting wow good luck for your job search it's going to be amazing I love Thailand one of the best play I'm going to mention Thailand today as well so great place to go um yes my time is 137 right now yes so about an hour from Munich it's in a town called Augsburg it's also a bigger city so that's where I am okay good then shall we jump in also at the end I do have a Q&A for anyone who wants to ask questions not related to today's topic maybe more about our courses about anything else you can do that at the end as well but also always feel free to just jump in and leave a comment when you have a question right away and then I am keeping an eye on the comments but I am doing this alone there are no admins or like helpers or anything so please be patient and mindful about that but without further ado we're just going to jump in and let me see I'm gonna make myself I think maybe like this yeah this should work so let's see first off teaching English abroad without any experience there is some really really really good news and that is that the demand for English teachers outstrips the supplies so that means there are a lot more positions than English teachers to fill them with so that means that a lot of employers they can't be picky when it comes to candidates and they oftentimes do take teachers without any experience so that is really really good news for us who are new to this and who are just jumping in and getting started without any prior experience that's the first thing I want to say and that you should know and be aware of hi Paria from Iran how are you doing or paria maybe paria all right so yeah huge demand all over the world let's look at where exactly you can go and teach English abroad without any experience and as you can see I prepared this world map for you and there's so so many pins in there so really in all corners of the world you can go and teach English and yeah really from Asia the Middle East Middle East actually not too much because they do have stricter requirements so a lot of times they do want people with experience actually but what a lot of people are doing if you really want to go to the Middle East you could start in North Africa or in Asia and get a couple of years of experience and then move to the Middle East but also as you can see Europe is on there and then also America North South America Central America so a lot of places where you can go and teach also maybe side note here because Africa is quite blank it doesn't have any pins in it but if you really want to go and teach English in Africa there are a lot of positions that are mostly volunteer teaching positions and they are unpaid so I only put up basically paid positions but note that Africa definitely has lots of opportunities for people without any experience but most of them will be unpaid but there are also a lot of opportunities there um cool then we have Ricardo from the Dominican Republic hi Ricardo thanks for joining and we have lorado hi lorado yes it is 1 40 p.m. here too I am in Germany right now so that's why we have a different time today might be better for you right normally it is like 3 a.m. lorado when you're watching this so um might be better for you this time but yeah I'm staying in Germany for a couple of weeks so we have this time right now going on so yeah this is the demand and where you can teach English abroad without any experience as you can see the options are pretty much endless right lots of options lots of good stuff here and also the next thing I want to show you is um this sheet and I actually prepared this for you guys so you can um let's see I'm going to share this with you because this is really going to be very useful for a lot of you guys so I'm going to share it in the comment section you can um copy and paste this link and then check out this sheet and I'm just going to share that sheet with you and kind of explain a little bit about what this sheet is so basically this sheet says where you can teach English with no experience but it also shows you a lot lot more so if you're looking at this sheet what you can do is you open it and then what you will do is you go to file and then you can say you can click on make a copy and then you can save this on your own computer your own version and then you can also edit it okay so anyways this is what the sheet looks like and it's sorted it has a couple of tabs here the first one is Asia and then with Europe we have South and Central America and we have the Middle East and Africa so I hope you can see this right yes so here are all the countries and then there are a couple of columns here for example whether or not a degree is required the average monthly salary of this country the start of the terms of the start of the school year and then this column highlighted in green is interesting for today's topic so whether or not you need teaching experience okay so you'll notice that most countries they do say no no or preferred or yes here Mongolia says yes um no no no and then also other interesting information for your job search okay so if you're um at the beginning of your job search you're not quite sure yet maybe oh which country do you want to go to you can just click here and browse all of the countries and be like oh yeah so I don't have a degree and I don't have experience where can I go and then you just see okay degree required where was it no Cambodian no and no teaching experience so yeah I can apply in Cambodia for example or if you have a degree you can also look at these yes and no teaching experience so you can apply to all of these countries so that's a very useful sheet for your job search and that will really really help you and be super useful so again what you can do is to just click on file and then make a copy and then you can rename it or just keep the same name and then it will save it in your own drive and you can edit it you can work on it and you can just keep it for later so I just think that this is very useful for you guys and I wanted to share that with you that will make your job search maybe a little bit easier all right if you have any questions about the sheet feel free to leave it in the comments and then I'm just gonna help you and we can figure it out together but yeah this is the sheet and then you can figure out where you might be able to teach and then let's jump into four tips for finding a Tefl job abroad without teaching experience there four tips or also kind of four steps maybe rather four steps that what do you need to do to find a teaching job abroad without any teaching experience okay so first of course if you don't have any teaching experience what you can do to dramatically enhance your chances is to get Tefl or TSOL certified and what you want to have is at least a 120 hour Tefl or TSOL qualification from an accredited course provider like ITTT for example so 120 hours if you don't know is basically the international minimum at the international standard 120 hours means 120 hours of study this particular course at ITTT the 120 hour course consists of 20 units who mentioned that they're in the last unit now yes Jing she's currently working on it many of you guys have already worked through this course so you know what I'm talking about but this is basically the international minimum for a English teaching position you want to have at least 120 hours of training this is a requirement for many employers but also for many teaching programs like the jet program in Japan the epic program program in Korea and so on they all want at least a 120 hour certification and then it's also very beneficial to take specialized Tefl courses to just kind of narrow down your niche so for example teaching English online teaching business English or young learners so children and especially I think business English and young learners is very very useful and then of course if you're also interested in teaching English online the teaching English online course you can also add that on but teaching children and business English are basically the biggest fields when it comes to teaching English in class and abroad so having those two as well is very very useful and you're going to see if you go to our website for example Tefl course that met and you apply for a 120 hour Tefl course and you pick the version with tutor support because there are two versions one is with a tutor and one is without and if you pick the version with tutor support you actually get to choose one free course one so one of these three you can actually pick for free so then you already have the 120 hour course and already a specialization course so there you go and yeah I also listed some of our other course options down below here just for reference what other options there are I'm also going to go into these a little bit later but yeah as you can see the 120 hour Tefl course and basically that the green prize is the price with today's 30% off discount code so you can really save a lot if you look at the numbers here it's actually regular price 249 but then with the code you actually save a lot and it's only down to 174 so there we go hi Crystal Lee now are you doing so yeah another popular option is the 220 hour master package for example which is the 120 hour course plus business English and young learners together that's also what I took when I started out with my Tefl journey and that's the course that I always recommend if you want to do this as a long-term career for several years not just a year or two and you want to go back home then I think investing in the 220 hour master package of course is a great idea Tural says it is very bad I've bought 249 oh no you should have tuned in earlier that's why I always say like and subscribe so you get updated and you don't miss any of our live sessions because we only share this code in our live sessions so next time maybe for a follow-up course you can use this code to roll I'm I apologize and yeah there's also a 470 hour professional package 550 our expert package we're going to go into these a little bit later but just so you see kind of what we have on offer here but I think most people they do start out with the 120 hour course or the 220 hour course unless you really you know people who maybe don't have a university degree if you are maybe a non-native English speaker then you should get higher hours but yeah that's so the first step get Tefl or TESOL certified and maybe as a side note for some people who might be watching this for the first time we mentioned here Tefl but TESOL is also yeah great so Ricardo that's actually what I want to explain right now because I think we have a lot of new viewers so let me make myself bigger here maybe like this and explain this to you so you're going to hear a lot of terms like Tefl and TESOL um yeah here so maybe this would be a good question to answer what is the difference between Tefl and TESOL right what Ricardo asks as well what does Tefl mean so Tefl stands for teaching English as a foreign language and then TESOL TESOL stands for teaching English to speakers of other languages so the terms slightly have a different meaning but nowadays they are used interchangeably they mean the same thing the only difference is that Tefl is more commonly used in Europe in the UK and in North America and in Australia people just call it TESOL more so that's the only difference but the course is exactly the same the same units the same content everything is the same it just comes down to personal preference whether you call it Tefl or TESOL but they are the same thing so that's what it is and a Tefl certificate is a certificate that allows you to teach English abroad in other countries professionally to foreigners to speakers of other languages for example hope that makes sense oh crystalline says got through five of the six courses they are great amazing crystalline congratulations keep it up Sam, Sam says do you recommend getting a bachelor's or master's in Tefl TESOL well I think it depends on what your future goals are right I don't think I can answer that it all comes down to what you know what you want to do with your degree if a bachelor's degree is enough or master's degree but I mean you need to have a master's before a bachelor's before you get a master's anyway so get your bachelor's first and then see if a master's degree is something that you want to pursue or not come on maybe so good bachelor yeah okay maybe maybe the question is is a bachelor's enough or do you need a master's degree bachelor's degree is usually enough for teaching English abroad you you most of the time do not have to have a master's degree there are some exceptions if you want to teach for example at international schools or in places like the middle east more competitive places they do prefer people with master's or if you want to teach at a university for example but for just regular Tefl TESOL abroad a bachelor's degree is sufficient and it also does not have to be in English or in teaching at all it can be any major typically so for example me I have a bachelor's degree in management and with a Tefl paired with a Tefl that is totally fine and you can teach English abroad with that as well okay I saw you in Hong Kong advertising Tefl TESOL degrees there are Tefl and TESOL degrees for sure and if you have that that's a huge plus as well right that's a huge plus right but a lot of people they have any kind of bachelor's degree can be anything and then a Tefl or TESOL certificate on top of that and that's also enough for teaching English abroad but a degree in Tefl TESOL is definitely amazing and a huge plus as well and you might be earning a higher salary then but it's not necessary to do this to go abroad and teach to have a bachelor's or a master's in Tefl TESOL okay let me have some water that was a lot of talking about for a couple minutes all right and thank you guys so much for answering each other's questions in the comments as well I really appreciate it and being so active in the comments I really like you know I like it that way I like having conversation between you guys and me and not just me talking and like giving a lecture I don't really like that so please don't be shy you know leave some comments whatever it is and your questions and then this can be a really good live session okay so number one get Tefl certified step one let's see I'm gonna do it this way so you can read this better I think on the slides step two would be choosing a destination choosing a destination so Asia South America Southern and Eastern Europe are great options if you don't have any teaching experience all right especially Asia and as you can see the point two here the biggest Tefl job markets in the world can be found in China Japan South Korea Thailand Vietnam and others but those are the biggest teaching markets in the world especially China then we have Japan and South Korea they also have these government funded programs so for example Japan has the jet program which goes through the government and hires English teachers and then places them into public schools and South Korea has a very similar program called Epic but they do the same thing so they're very popular programs and they hire a lot of English teachers every year but you don't have to go through this program you can also go through you know you can do your own job search or you can go through a recruiter and then work for a private school that's also very common and then Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia very popular places as well they've been hiring English language teachers for probably 20 years Thailand more longer than Vietnam but definitely both of them are hiring a lot of English teachers into their schools so those are really really good countries to go to and many countries they require teachers to have a bachelor's degree so it's important to do your research about the requirements and to make sure you're eligible that's why I shared with you the sheet right this sheet here so you can see which countries where do you need a degree where you don't need a degree if you don't have one or teaching experience or whatever all the all the requirements so this is a very useful sheet and if you're just tuning in and you don't have the sheet you can just go back to kind of the first 10 minutes where I shared this or you check the comments for a link to the sheet but that's going to be very very useful for your research so you know where you can go and where you can't go all right um yeah we have a question here about the difference between Teflon and TESOL and I just explained this a couple minutes ago so you can just rewind a little bit and see that there or you go to tefloncourse.net and we have a FAQ section that explains that very very well but the difference is there is no real difference they are the same Teflon and TESOL is the same the only difference is the countries that use the terms so like I said in Europe and UK people call it Teflon and in North America and places like New Zealand and Australia they call it TESOL so that's the only difference but other than that they are the same just quick answer here so that is that so number one was getting Teflon certified and then number two is choosing a destination okay a destination that works for you that you like that you're interested in and also that you fulfill the requirements for so make sure that that is all good and set up and then we can move over to number three so once you're ready once you know where you want to apply to and of course with again choosing a destination you don't have to stick to just one country right you can apply for as many positions in as many countries as you want and then compare and pick and choose the best offer right don't have to stick to one but it's just good to have a kind of an idea of where you want to go and then the requirements and make sure that you fulfill the requirements before you apply or if you apply in a country where for example they only hire people with a bachelor's degree but you don't have a bachelor's degree you're going to get rejected probably I mean I'm all I always say try anyway you know and apply but it might be a waste of time if it's clear that hey you cannot do this if you don't have a bachelor's degree then you might have to pick a different destination so yeah again preparing your TEFL CV or resume would be the next a next step so here's my example CV for what it could look like and it might look a little bit differently from depending on you know what country you are from for example in North America people do not put a lot of personal information on a resume so you wouldn't even see a picture on there but for teaching English abroad most of the time you do have to include a lot more personal information than you might be used to so there is a photo on it there is your birthday on it in some extreme cases you might even have to tell them your height and things like that so yeah that can happen but so do your research and you're also going to get actually support for your TEFL resume and CV from ITTT once you have completed your course we will help you do that so you're not really left alone with that but just so that you know and yeah as always with any resume of course there's no room for errors no spelling errors grammar errors because you are applying to be an English teacher so there should be no typos there should be no grammar errors and anything like that you should also include any contact details your email address telephone number your address a date of birth things like that and include a professional photo of yourself so if you don't have a professional photo you need to go and take one that's very very important you can just use any instagram photo that you have or a selfie that is not a good look so invest in some good headshots some good professional photos and make sure that you look you know the best that you can and it's of course also important to list all of your skills and qualifications any language skills that you have you know if you speak any other languages than English that's a huge plus maybe you even speak or started learning the language of the country that you're applying to that's a huge plus that's really really good and they love to see that um any kind of experience that you have abroad if you spend some time abroad you should also put that on there and any experience related to teaching of course or leading a group would be also a good advantage or tutoring or anything like that or if you were like a summer camp you worked in a summer camp or you did something I don't know in your community helping children or anything like that you can put it on there if you don't have any teaching experience and just circling back to the point about um experience abroad uh so like I said it's very important to put that on there if you have experience abroad and maybe even if you've like traveled to 10 different countries you put you can put that on there because the worst thing that could happen to to a school or an employer that hires you from abroad is that you arrive in that country and then you have a huge culture shock you can't adjust and then you're you quit and you go back home that's their worst nightmare that's their fear so they want to make sure that you are a person who um you know who doesn't do that so who can adjust to a new culture a new country that's very important to them because hiring someone from abroad an English teacher is very important it's very important yes but very expensive and time consuming so they want to make sure that they hire a person that is not going to leave so anything like that experience abroad traveling put that on there because it's it's very important it's a good look okay I think that's all about the resume so let me look at the comments I think Sam had a question here so Sam says could you please explain what a CELTA certification actually is so yeah great question CELTA is something that we hear also a lot about in our industry and CELTA is actually is actually a brand name basically it's a brand name of a TEFL certification so it's a type of TEFL certification from one specific company so it is also a TEFL certification it just has a different name because it's basically this one institution's brand name so to speak so I think there's also online CELTA courses or in-class CELTA courses like TEFL courses there's online TEFL courses there's in-class TEFL courses as well so it's very much like that it's just offered by one specific company so yeah all right so what did we talk about we talked about what was the first thing already forgot number one get TEFL certified step one step two was choosing the destination where you want to go to and then you prepare your TEFL CV resume and then you will apply for jobs with that resume that you prepare all right Jin says applying abroad are they concerned on age they have are they concerned about age age limits some places in countries do have age limits and you can also see this on the sheet that I shared so I'm just going to pull this up again as you can see this last column has information on age restriction so most of the time as you can see it's under 65 under 55 under 60 or none so typically or here's even 52 in Myanmar so it depends if you're not older than 50 you should not have any issues or in many cases up until 65 so again you can refer to the sheet and then you'll find the age limit information on there as well so once you have prepared your resume and you know where you want to apply to you apply for jobs and you want to apply to as many jobs as maybe possible or as many jobs as you want not just one right even though the demand is very high but depending on what country you choose it might be more competitive than others so that's kind of how it is so all of our course grants from ITTT they get lifetime job assistance I just wanted to mention that that means we will do our best at ITTT to help you find a teaching job in the country in the place that you want to go to and even if you take a course now and then you come back five years later and you're like hey I want to teach in Argentina now it's like yeah okay we will help you do that so that doesn't expire and it's good to take advantage off because we do have relationships networks with different TEFL employers with schools all around the world with TEFL recruiters all of that so there also we have access to a lot of job offers that are not advertised anywhere else so that's what you will get from us and then of course you should also do your own research right you can you can find positions on online job boards and we actually at ITTT on our website we also have a job board so for example if you go to teflcourts.net and then you'll see at the top it says jobs you can find advertised jobs there as well and other you know places where you can find English teaching jobs of course are linked in right the ESL cafe, Jubal, there's so many other ones, ESL base, glass door, the garden jobs etc etc there are a lot if you just google TEFL jobs teaching English jobs abroad you're gonna find so much so that is one way you can do it you can apply to these online jobs that are advertised or you can also go through a EFL recruitment agency worldwide so we actually at ITTT we partner with a lot of TEFL recruiters and agencies so you can also get that information from us of course because we work with reliable recruiters and then they are usually industry experts in their region in their area and they will know exactly you know the kind of schools that are looking for somebody like you and they can arrange this between the school and you and also good to know a recruiter does not cost anything for the teacher so you do not have to pay anything to our TEFL or English teacher English teaching job recruiter nothing at all the school pays the recruiter so that's also something you can totally take advantage of you can do that and I always recommend do a combination of all of these you know take advantage of your life and job assistance from ITTT but also look at job boards also use a recruiter and then the last point here is independent job search which kind of is also looking at online job boards but also what you could do you could just pick if you're like yeah I really want to go to Barcelona you could pop up google maps Barcelona and then put in English language school and then you're going to see everywhere in Barcelona where there's English language schools and you can just email them your resume and say hey here I am do you have any vacancies and you can also do that for example okay um let's see oh there's a good conversation going on between crystalline and sam so that's nice cool um yeah all right so yeah we took a TEFL course we chose our destination we built our resume and then we applied for jobs and then of course we got the job um oh and this is also real quick more about the ITTT job support that I just mentioned it never expires and so what that means is you have access to our database of potential employers what I mentioned a couple minutes ago you also get exclusive leads on unadvertised jobs you get advice on constructing a resume or CV um you could also advice on writing cover letters and you get assistance with planning our trial lessons for job interviews because that's kind of the next point um after applying of course you would be invited to a job interview and then a lot of times they will actually ask you to teach a little bit and show that um have them no have you show them um your teaching skills so you might have to prepare a little trial lesson and that's also something that we can help you with and cool bonus tip let's jump into that as well um so something also I mentioned kind of in the beginning but take advantage or take advanced and specialized TEFL certification courses like the teaching English to young learners and teaching business English courses they will really help you and kind of also boost your resume more if you don't have any teaching experience um you can also do volunteer teaching that will boost your resume this is something you can do in your own community or you know if you're like hey this summer I'm gonna go to um Mexico I'm gonna go to Costa Rica I'm gonna go to Africa any country um and do some volunteer teaching and then you can put that also on your resume so that's very useful to boost it if you don't have teaching experience then another point is online teaching um that's also great for um you know helping with the teaching experience side a lot of people do that actually they complete their TEFL course and then they start online teaching before then they actually go abroad to teach that also really boost your resume as well and um yeah then also joining online forums and Facebook groups for networking can be a really really good thing you can find a lot of information there and also and I mentioned this I think in the last couple of live sections to be honest because it's true and it's really what's happening a lot of times these Facebook groups and what I mean by that is for example English teachers in Korea English teachers in France or something like that there's tons of Facebook groups um dedicated to the stuff so if you join that if let's say you want to go and teach English in Korea you join English teachers in Korea and a lot of times people um there's a huge turnover rate right every every term every year so some teachers they only stay for a year and then they change or they switch schools in Korea they move to a different city etc and what they will do oftentimes um their school will just be like hey can you post this job in this group on Facebook or if you know anyone who wants to apply who wants this job just let us know um they just want to kind of take the easy way when it comes to finding teachers sometimes so a lot of Facebook groups teachers will just post hey I'm leaving in September and my school will be looking for my replacement here the details and you can apply and this is usually the first step so they will do this first and they will not advertise this anywhere else and then if they don't find anyone from from this initial search then they will post their job offers someplace else but a lot of times these Facebook groups are really the first place where they share these job offers and it's also really good because you can ask this teacher hey so how's the school how are the co-teachers how's the management you can kind of feel it out but that's a really good way on finding a job as well just a little tip from me here um and then uh just a little note about the specialized courses because I think I didn't have a slide up for those specifically so um yes we have three specialized courses at ITTT which are the certificate in teaching English to young learners the certificate in teaching business English and the certificate in teaching English online and they're all priced the same 199 but with today's 30 off code they're only 139 and if you choose any of these um correspondence they will be included in the correspondence so for example this first one here I hope you can see this I'm just gonna make myself maybe even smaller so you can see this bigger but um the first one here 170 hour course this is for people who want to teach English online so this is the 120 hour course the standard course plus the 50 hour teaching English online and this is the discounted price for today and then the 220 hour master package something we mentioned before um which I think is the best course you could take and I took this course as well again this is the 120 hour course plus um business English plus teaching English to young learners so I love that one um and with today's 30 off it's only 244 US dollars I think that's a really good price and then I also wanted to pop on here the 550 hour expert diploma package course this is the highest level course package that we offer at ITTT includes pretty much every course on the website all in one so if you're like I want to teach English abroad so bad forever for many many years to come I want to be a head teacher I want to be the best um this would be the course to get to really be ahead of the game so um just mentioning that um there we go and this is how you can find ITTT online and then we're gonna open up Q&A and like I said this is um again the QR code that you can scan for 30% off and I'm also gonna share the link in the comment section for you guys again for somebody who tuned in now so you can copy and paste this link here looks like this and um this will get you 30% off as well so and then I am ready to take your questions and I see Ray has a question so I'm gonna take that Ray question let's say if you don't have any teaching experience will it matter to have teaching experience let's say if you want to start of teaching online or do you need a big resume for teaching English online I would say it's exactly the same you do not need to have any teaching experience to start teaching English online as well um how I would do that because there's kind of two ways um there's kind of two ways to teach English online right one way is to go through a platform um there's tons of platforms out there you might already have done some research and be a little bit familiar um and they will uh basically connect you with students most of the time they will assign students to you um or if it's kind of a teaching marketplace you will have your profile on the platform and students can browse and they can pick and um have you as a teacher those are two ways and then the other way is where you're completely independent and you basically have maybe your own website and you have to find your own students and you do this completely on your own in that case if when you're doing it completely on your own some kind of experience uh doesn't hurt because when people look at your website and you have nothing to show for you don't have any experience you might not even have a Teflor TESOL they're like well I don't know if this is a if this is the right teacher right but um so what you can do is start out at a platform where they assign students to you um and gain experience that way and then you can switch over to independent teaching perhaps at least have you know a Teflor TESOL certificate and you can also have that on your um teaching profile teacher profile so that's also going to boost it but yeah definitely and and teaching is online nowadays is completely um common and super common for a lot of people who um don't want to go abroad or you want to go abroad but you kind of want to do the remote working thing so you want to travel but you want to teach English online at the same time a lot of people are doing that as well and if you're totally new to this you don't you don't have any teaching experience you can also do that hope that helps great question good all right next question I'm still going to be here a couple more minutes so don't be shy and ask away I need to check up on this conversation that Crystaline and Sam are having in the comments later on and you're going to need to read everything but it looks fun I'm just going to put this banner up so everybody knows what's up you can ask me your questions about Teflor TESOL teaching English abroad or online whatever you want to know about and I'm going to answer them okay Sam has a question for me where are you planning to travel to next yeah so right now I'm in Germany and I do have a couple of trips planned um some of them are um some of them are in Germany and some of them are uh in Europe I don't know if I should tell because I didn't go yet but I'm actually going to hmm an island soon an island nation maybe that makes sense I'm going to tell you when I'm back I think I don't want to give it away but you can guess you can guess okay and Crystaline says what is a delta I think the delta is similar to a salta that it is a brand name for a Tefl course but I would have to do more thorough google search exactly so if anybody knows exactly what a delta is I'll let us know but yeah it's also a type of Tefl certification okay well this was a really really good chat and I hope you guys found it interesting and maybe it inspired you to finally take that step to teach English abroad especially um with today's discount 30% off um okay Crystaline says wait let's definitely okay okay Jing Jing says yeah that's also I'm afraid on since I don't have any teaching experience there's the certificate of teaching practice recognition would be help thank you yes so that would help as well and I actually I should have mentioned that as well that's actually a good point so the certificate of teaching practice recognition the ctpr is basically good to add on to your 120 hour Tefl certification because it um is a bit of practical teaching practical teaching certification so um that is definitely good to have a lot of times some employers they do want to have practical teaching practice experience before you apply so in that case the ctpr would definitely help definitely a good course to look into as well yes Martin says hey Lynn it is the discount discount code expire it does not expire no because Tefl tesol you know teaching English abroad is a big um decision and you might not be able to just decide right now which course you want to take so it does not expire you can save it um I recommend saving it and then going through the website carefully um and then figuring out you know which um figuring out which course is best for you and for your goal so yeah it does not expire so please save it and then use it when you're ready but just make sure you use it because if you don't you're not gonna have that 30% off so that's why save it somewhere on your computer on your phone and then when you're ready you can use that and um make the final application for the course okay crystalline says Linda do you know any more information about the teaching areas in Vietnam like visa information or anything um visa information really the best place to look into those things are the official websites um so I do not know exactly um if they have you know a teaching visa or I believe it's a work visa or I think if they call it a business visa so you'd have to check that out but usually you know the schools they will help you get that they will um walk you through the process and um they will be there for you and help you with the visa process normally so um definitely get that information from like the official sites the embassy sites and things like that but then the employer there's something also to ask your employer during the interview process because they should know exactly which visa you need and how to help you how to get it because they usually need to do things at the embassy for you um so don't worry too much about that but if they if you're in an interview and you ask that question and they don't have an answer that's a red flag and you should walk away that's all I would say okay all right uh I mean Thomas says Linda Delta is the acronym for diploma in teaching English to speakers of other languages yeah so it's a Tefl diploma basically TESOL diploma which we also offer at ITTT but it's not called Delta because again Delta is kind of the brand name for this other company okay Ray last question uh how long would you recommend me to teach online while gaining experience where it will be enough to boost my resume with experience to teach English abroad well um you know there's no wrong or right answer to this there's no fixed number for this um I think you will probably know yourself once you've taught a couple of lessons online and you you know once you feel confident in your teaching abilities I think that's when it's the right time once you're like okay I've taught maybe I've taught six months now I taught a year and now I feel like oh I can do this and I can do this abroad I can do this in a real classroom and then it's then it's the time might also be just three months or four months no one can answer this question except you once you've done it right that's what I would say Miriam no Mariam sorry Mariam says do I have to be a native speaker to teach abroad no non-native English speakers can also teach abroad um it just depends on where so some countries some employers they only accept native English speakers but there are also countries where you don't have to be a native English speaker and again this sheet would come in very handy it also has the information on here suitable for non-native English speakers yes or no and you can refer to that as well in the beginning of the stream if you rewind if you go back to the beginning I shared a link to the sheet and you can get it and then you can see that information okay all right I think I am gonna say goodbye soon maybe one last final question if anybody has one and if not we're gonna say goodbye and I really appreciate you guys being so active today in the comments um oh Mariam I missed that Mariam says I have just joined so will you please say the name of the certificates I need to teach abroad so I'm gonna share that I'm gonna show you the slide how about that where is it that was here 120-hour TEFL course that would be a good one to start with but I'm going to share the link with you in the comments as well so you can have a look here with the 30% off discount code included so you can have a look these are the course options and generally the 120-hour course is the minimum and then everything is on top of that so there we go all right and Sam says a question in German if the next life will also be in the evening you know the time depends on where you are it's not even in time for me here so it's just even in time where you are Sam um I'm not sure yet when the next life will be that's why down here don't forget to like and subscribe on our Facebook page you're gonna find the information when our next life will be um and then you can join you can always watch the replay as well of course but um yeah that is that um and then I think I'm gonna say goodbye now so let's see Mark this is one great advice for us aspiring learners soon to be teachers absolutely well I'm glad that that was useful today and I really appreciated all of you guys being so active that was really cool um and I hope you guys learned something and I'm gonna be back next week um and if you're watching this later you can still leave comments under here and we will get back to you so don't worry and I'm gonna Mohammed Derza I'm saying that correctly says thank you so much it was amazing thank you crystalline says this was fun this was fun amitabha good evening have a good evening thank you all right guys then I hope to see you all again next week and we repeat this it was a fun chat and then actually next week because it will be the first Friday of a new month right um it's gonna be all q&a so we can do only q&a only you guys's questions and my answers um so that's gonna be fun as well so please join don't be shy and then thank you thank you everybody good night crystalline and then I'll see you guys next time thank you so much take care bye