 I'm Linda here from ITTT. Welcome to today's live session. There we go. Today we're going to talk about intro videos, introduction videos, how to create effective introduction videos for teaching, TEFL introduction videos, etc. You might be familiar with this. You might not be familiar with this. You may have filmed one before. So that's what we're going to talk about today. How to film lots of tips and tricks, what you can do to get the most effective introduction video to get you that teaching job that you want. That's what we're going to do today. Thanks so much for tuning in for watching. We are live on Facebook and on YouTube today. So welcome, welcome. It is Friday morning, 1030 a.m. here in South Korea. How's everybody doing? Where are you guys right now? I'm in South Korea watching. Where are you watching from today? I'm in South Korea, 1030 a.m. Friday. I know that we usually get quite an international crowd. We usually have people from all over the world here. 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So she says, Hi Linda, this is very useful. I'll be waiting. Yeah. And this was actually a comment she made before today's live session. So I hope you're here and you're watching as well. Thanks so much for that. And then we have, oh, that's probably also wrong. Sorry if I butcher that from Nigeria. Awesome. Hello. How are you doing? Who else is here? Let me know where you're watching from today. What time it is there. And yeah, just join today's live session about introduction videos. My name is Linda. Welcome, welcome. Just a quick intro about myself. So my name is Linda. I'm a travel writer and content creator under the name Linda goes East because I have been living in Asia for almost 10 years. Yeah, almost 10 years. I started out in China. And yeah, I have been living now in South Korea for seven and a half years. So I spent a little bit of time in China, also teaching there. And majority of the time I have been living in Korea, but I also travel all across Asia and know that pretty much borders are open. That is pretty much on again. And I have my own website, lindegoseast.com. If you're interested in that part of the world, do check it out. lindegoseast.com. And I'm originally from Germany and the US. So my mom is German, my dad is American. And yeah, I'm based in South Korea. I'm also a Teflon TESOL marketing professional for ITTT. If you don't know, ITTT stands for International Teflon and TESOL Training. And you can visit us at tefloncourse.net. And what is ITTT, you might ask? ITTT is a leading Teflon and TESOL course provider. We provide courses for people who want to teach English abroad or online or in your own country, wherever you want to go. You can take a Teflon or a TESOL course and you'll be good to go. They're internationally accredited. I have also taken four of these courses with ITTT. That's kind of how I found out about ITTT. I did Google research, right? As you do many, many years ago. And ITTT came up and I was like, oh, this looks like a great company. The reviews are great. So let me get in touch with them. And that's how I ended up here basically. That's how it can go. So this is about me. Yeah, then we also, as you might know, have this 30% off opportunity every time we go live. So if you want to get a Teflon certificate or a TESOL certificate, or you are already Teflon TESOL certified, but you want to get, for example, a special specialization course or a top up like a TESOL diploma and additional certificate, you can use this code and you can save 30%. So that's quite a lot of money that you can save here. So if this is something you're thinking about, use this code, don't pay the full price, use this code and you can save a lot of money. So you can either scan this QR code right with your phone, but I know many of you are on your phone. So it's not convenient to do that. 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I'm doing this alone. I have two laptops here, so I need to keep an eye on many different things. So bear with me, please. But yeah, it's all good. It's all good. So this was somewhat of a very requested topic that has been kind of on the agenda for a long time. We talked a lot about teaching English online. We talked a lot about different teaching destinations, programs for teaching English abroad. We also did a live with a guest not too long ago talking about China, all things teaching English in China and how the things have changed since sort of COVID and everything. And so we do a lot of different things here on this channel and on Facebook with ITTT. And this topic was also very, very, very requested because it just fits in so nicely with everything and ties everything together. So here we have also David watching from Columbia and it's 837 PM. Oh, interesting. All right, cool. That's quite a long time difference. Interesting. Wow. Thank you for that, David. All right. So let's have a look at what we're going to talk about today. All right. So yes, introduction videos and let's have a look at sort of today's aim. So after this live session, you will know why you might be asked to film an introduction video. What is the purpose of this introduction video? And the second point we're going to kind of talk about is what are Teflin employers looking for in a introduction video? So how can you structure or film the best and most efficient and effective introduction video? And then you also know by the end of this live session what to say on camera as well as how to set up and actually film your introduction video. So there are a lot of different parts that go into an introduction video. There's a lot of planning involved. There's a lot of setting up involved. And then there's obviously also the content that you need to think about what you're going to talk about. You might be nervous obviously. So yeah, let's go over all of these points starting off with basically what an introduction video is. What is an introduction video? And I'm going to make myself smaller. I'm going to be over here. I hope you can still see me well. But so just so that you can read the slides and it is not too difficult to read. Okay. So let's start off with what is an introduction video. So here we have a lot of people with introduction videos think that this is only for online teaching. And it is true with online teaching. You almost always have to have an introduction video, right? I also started teaching English online two years ago. And I also filmed an introduction video that time and it sits on your profile and then students can watch it and then they can book your classes. But nowadays it's actually not only for teaching English online. It's also for in-person positions. So basically an introduction video is part of your resume portfolio nowadays. So you have your typical resume, your CV resume, you have your cover letter, you have all of your certificates, and then part of that whole bundle will also be your introduction video. And a lot of employers make that a requirement to send one along with your application. So it's part of your application. And these videos, they basically help recruiters and they also help employers hear your voice and see your mannerisms, how you act and just get to know you a little bit better before inviting you to an actual interview. They can also, these videos can also assist in making sure that you possess the level of English that the employer or the school is looking for. Sometimes they are looking for a very specific accent in some cases. You know, this is a school that follows maybe like a British curriculum. Maybe they want somebody who has a British accent, just things like that. They may have their own preferences. And this introduction video basically just aims at giving them a first impression and they first look at the candidate. And from there, they can then decide whether or not they want to schedule an interview with you. So this is why an introduction video is so, so, so important because it is your first impression and your first sort of step through the door into the school or for this employer. So again, not only for online teaching, but nowadays very much part of your application portfolio, right? Okay. Now let's talk a little bit about the top tips for filming an introductory video, right? So we, there's a lot of things to think about with this, with this video. And these are like the four main things that you should think about when you film. And we're going to talk about what to say the contents of the video a little bit later, but this is more about the setup. Okay. This is before you film. This is getting ready to film. Okay. I have a comment here. Oh, Amitava. Hi. How are you doing? I'm doing great. How about you? Thanks for joining. And we just went over what an introduction video is. And now let's have a look at the steps that in creating the video. Okay. I hope I make sense here. So we're going to focus on four different things in this section. And this is really important. So if you want to take some screenshots or, I mean, you can always watch the replay, definitely. But this is something that's very important. Those four points are like the four most important things to consider when you set up and when you film your introduction video. So we're starting off with the background and here kind of you want to think about who your target audience is basically. So if you're applying for a position for teaching children, you want to set up your background a little bit differently than when you're applying for a regular teaching job or a job for teaching adults or like business English. So for children, it'd be really cool to have a brightly colored wall perhaps or some fun like patterns or any kind of child friendly poster that you have, or if you have your own whiteboard, you can use that or any kind of poster like an ABC poster or some kind of poster with animals or something like that. If you don't have something like that, you can buy this very, very cheap at like a dollar store or something. And it just makes a very good impression. So this is for children. So you can have any kind of teaching props kind of behind you in your background that would look really, really nice. And that just shows that, oh yeah, you're, you have already all the stuff, you're like ready to be a teacher for children. Then however, if you are applying for a position teaching adults, this would not be super suitable, right? You want to have a background that is a little bit more plain looking either just, you know, white wall or like some bookshelves perhaps in the background or like a map of the world or any kind of artwork, anything that looks like kind of, well, teacher, teacher style background, you know, books and stuff or yeah, anything that looks professional basically, plain looking. So you want to shy away from the colors and the toys and stuff that you would use for children. Here, what you also should keep in mind, and we have seen this quite a lot, what a lot of people do, they film in their bedroom and then you can see the bed behind you. That is not a good look. So you want to avoid that. That is not professional. You really want to avoid filming in your bedroom with your bed behind you. That's not great. And also avoid any shadows or any glare. So don't film with a window behind you. You want to film with a window in front of you like what I do here for example, right? So the light is shining on me and I am bright. Everybody can see my face very well. So those are things to keep in mind. Just find like the natural light is your best friend. So you want to find the brightest place in your house and hopefully it has a good background or you can set something up, set the scene. Also just consider the time of day that you're filming. Now this is why I like going live in the morning because my window is right here and it's bright. So that's why I choose this time to go live because the light is good and it looks good on camera. So just think about like that too. In your house, where is like the best brightest place and the best time to film. All right, this isn't about the background. I'm just looking at a comment here from Preethi and she says, I contacted you for insta but you didn't reply. I'm so disappointed. I'm sorry. I didn't see that message. What's your Instagram handle? Or just send me another message and then I'll check it out after this live session. I'm really sorry about that. I did not see that. I'm sorry. Please send me another message and I'll get back to you. Sorry about that. Okay, so this is it about the background. Again, keep in mind what is your target audience? If you're teaching children, make it colorful and fun, but if you're teaching adults or regular students, keep it professional and plain looking or like you have a bookshelf and like a nice plant perhaps or a world map. Don't film in your bedroom with your bed behind you. That's not a good look and avoid any shadows or glare. Find a nice bright spot in your home and you will be ready to go and you will look really, really good. Oh, that's a good point here. Giuliano says, Linda, what about the demand? Have the company's been looking for more adults or children in Asia? That's a good point. Yeah. Well, in Asia, it's actually more, more children, right? More children. You're going to have more children students in Asia, particularly, but you're going to know like the school that you're applying for. Usually you'll know or the recruiter can tell you what students they are teaching. If you want to be on the safe side and obviously you don't want to record multiple videos for multiple employers, you can just record one video with the second option here. So the plane or plane background with a bookshelf and a map or something, then you'll always be safe and you can always reuse this. This is good for children too, but if you know, like specifically, you are only applying for schools where you teach children, you might want to use that brightly colored and more colorful theme. But yeah, in Asia, it's going to be more children. But again, children of all ages. So you can be at a school where you teach kindergarten, but you can also be at a school where there are high school students, right? So yeah, depends. All right. Good. But that's a great question. Thank you. Next point we're going to look at are the clothes. Clothes. Very important, of course. So with any interview you want to look for, you want to wear formal attire, right? Similar to what you would wear to any interview. However, what to keep in mind is like shirt and tie, maybe not even a tie, nice shirt, nice little blouse or dress for women. And also what a lot of people don't realize with the video that most likely they will not see your pants, but just look smart, just in case, right? In case, I don't know, you never know, you move and then they might see like your pajama pants or something. That's not a great look. So just keep a professional outfit on all the way. You never know how you move and then something might appear on screen and you don't realize. So yeah, just keep that in mind. And also what to avoid here. You should avoid any patterns because they might not show up so well on the screen. You might know this if you wear anything with especially smaller kinds of pattern. It just kind of turns out to be a huge blob or like not sharp, kind of blurry, might distract too much as well. Just kind of wear simpler colors. And also another thing, avoid wearing the same color as the wall behind you. So you might look like a floating head and it might not look bad like in real life, but on camera, obviously cameras, depending on how you are recording this video, your camera might be not that good or it's never as good as real life, right? Or your eye. So there might not be that much of a difference between colors. So if you wear very similar shirt to the background, you're just kind of disappearing in the background and we don't want that. You want to stand out, right? You want to stand out. So wear something different. Those are just some things about the clothes. I think this all makes, this is common sense, right? You should wear something nice. Just don't wear something too relaxed, right? This is still an interview. It's an introduction video. This is your first impression. So you want to look your best. And also maybe what you're thinking, how about filters? Keep the filters definitely to a minimum here. You don't want to look, you don't want to look to Instagram filter like. Might be, you know, you want to look your best, but you still want to look normal and approachable. We don't want to have any weird filters going on there. That would also not be very professional. So just keep it natural. And you'll be good. Professional. Look it. Yeah, David says a floating head that would be odd. Yeah, that would be very odd. Definitely. All right. I'm sure you all know this about the clothes. This is not super groundbreaking, but just as a reminder, right? And especially about the pants too. I mean, honestly, here when I'm live, I also wear comfortable pants. But what if, you know, I need to get up and get something and then, you know, also not the best. You should always be actually head to toe dressed well, even online or even for a video because you never know what happens. But anyway, anyway, let's go to the third point, which was a camera microphone, camera microphone. So as you might imagine for in person teaching, when you're applying for in person positions, the kind of equipment you use is less important. It's really more important for online teaching. So there you really want to show off, you know, you have a good webcam, you have a good microphone, the sound is good and clear and you have good lighting. This is very important for online teaching because obviously when you are teaching, you're probably going to use the same equipment and they just want to make sure that everything looks good and sounds good for the students, right? So here I have sort of like a pro tip for you that especially for online teaching, you can buy a good headset with a microphone. You can even wear this or have this kind of near you during the introduction video. Another option, what looks really nice and professional are collar clip microphones. They work really well and they're actually also very cheap. You can buy them on Amazon, it's very cheap. And also this is another pro tip that I also kind of see all the time happening. So clean the lens of your camera and also the lens or the webcam on your laptop if you're recording this on your laptop. For example here, sometimes there will be like fingerprints on it and I'm just trying to make it dirty a little bit now. Oh yeah, maybe you can see now. So now it's very dirty with fingerprints and then, yeah, it just looks a little bit blurry, right? Can you see that? Can you see the difference? Well, you know, if it's like blurry or smudged, here we go. It could, it looks okay, but it could look so much better. So if we clean this now, and I'm just cleaning this with my, with my sweater, now it's clean. So it looks a lot more sharper now because it's clean. So make sure your camera lens is clean. It just makes a huge difference. It just meets it up and it just looks a lot nicer. So just make sure and I'm just going to go over it one more time. Okay. So this is a tip and a lot of people always forget to do that because we use our phone and I mean, even on my phone, usually, yeah, even now the camera here is dirty. So just make sure you just clean it up before you film. It's just going to look a lot nicer on video. Juliana says, well, it seems to be more logical to have in hands two kinds of resume, one aiming for adults and one for children. Yes, absolutely. That'd be ideal. You can record two videos, one with like a more colorful background for children and one with more plain and professional looking with like books and stuff in the background for adults. Absolutely. But sometimes but sometimes when you're going with a recruiter and you apply, sometimes you can only upload one video, right? So then in that case, if you can only upload one for multiple teaching positions, you don't know where they're going to. I would use the more plain looking one, the more professional one without the kids stuff. But it's up to you, obviously. All right. So this was camera and microphone. Yeah. So again, for online teaching, you really want to put more emphasis here on the equipment. You want to make sure that the sound is good, that maybe you also wear a headset so that they already see you have good equipment for the online teaching job for in-person teaching. Again, this is not so important, but obviously you also want to make sure that the quality is good and that the sound is good, right? Okay. Then we're moving on to the fourth point here, which is background noise, which is also very important. And you just want to make sure that there are no chances of distraction. Okay. You want to minimize that as much as possible. This obviously depends on where you live, where you film, the time of the day, all of these things you should consider. Make sure you film at the most quietest time possible in your home. You can also close your windows. Obviously, I also always do that when I go live here. You want to have your windows closed. You want to turn off any gadgets in your home. I also always put my phone either on do not disturb or on airplane mode and also when you're recording with your phone because then even if it's on like mute and you have the vibration on and you're filming, you can hear the vibration too in your video. So also make sure that is off and just find a time when the house is empty if possible and there's no one there, no one to distract you and then you can film. Again, here with a microphone, if you're using a microphone, it can really help limit background noise as well. So that would be a good idea. Again, I really recommend this clip on color microphone. And again, they're very cheap. They're really easy to buy. You can use one of those. That'd be really good. And also, you might think like, oh yeah, let me add some music to my video to make it a little bit more fun. But don't do that. Don't play any music. Don't add any music. It's just too distracting. It's not a video for social media. So there's no need to put any music over this. They really want to see you and hear you and hear you speak because this is for an English teaching position. So they really want to focus just on you and your voice and how you speak. There's no need to add any music. All right. I think that also makes a lot of sense. But sometimes we forget, right? And then we film and we think, oh, it's great, great video. And then you rewatch it and then you hear all this background noise. So that would be annoying. Just make sure you follow all these steps. Again, close your window, turn off your phone, and just find a time when the house is empty, as empty as possible. You do not want to rush this. It's like, oh, I need to really record this video right now. Take your time, really prepare and make sure you are recording under the best circumstances possible. Good. Oh yeah, these were all the four points now. All the four points we talked about to consider before we film, right? So now let's have a look at what to say during the video in the video and how to say it. Very important, of course, the message that you want to bring across, right? What do you want to say in the video and how can you best say that? And the first thing to always keep in mind when you record is to be mindful of your voice and your pronunciation. Your voice and pronunciation are super important because you are applying for an English teaching job. So how you speak English is very important. Also the grammar is very important. So always keep in mind that during the video, you should speak as clearly as possible with your teaching voice, right? I think if you're already teaching, you kind of have a teaching voice is very different from your normal speaking voice. So use your teaching voice, turn it on and just think about who is your audience. Your audience is, yes, the employer, but the employer, if they are in a different country than you, then also their English level might not be expert level, right? So speak to them like you would with a student, obviously not a kid student, still, I mean, adjust your English. You know what I'm talking about. Use your teaching voice, but also not too extreme and too much. And avoid speaking too quickly and avoid using colloquial language or any slang. So watch your grammar as well. You want to use proper grammar and proper vocabulary and avoid speaking too quickly. So these are the things you should keep in mind first. Yeah, shall we avoid slang? Of course. Yes, of course. Avoid slang. You don't want to mess with that. Okay. So let's have a look at what we're, what are we going to talk about? Okay, yes. Again, I structured this into three points. So you want to structure your video kind of into three sections. Okay. So a lot of people say, oh, don't like write a script. It's going to sound unnatural. I am a fan of scripts. You can write everything out and then kind of practice, but then you don't want to read it out. Like you're reading it. Or you just write it out in bullet points and kind of keep it in front of you so you don't forget what to say. You know, something might, might work for you that doesn't work for other people. It depends on you and how you best deliver the message. But this is basically the outline. You want to think about three sections. You have a beginning, a main section and a closing. So let's have a look at the beginning here. What you should say. So very important, of course, you know, the first few seconds, how long does it take? I forget. First impression, how many seconds? So this is your time to really impress them, right? The first few seconds. You should smile. You can wave. You can say hi. Say your name and where you're from and where you live, if that's different. And then you should have one line summarizing why your qualifications and your experience and your skills are perfect for this job. All right. This is the beginning. It's very short, but very, very important. If you mess it up, if it's not great, they're probably not going to continue watching the video. They might not, right? So the beginning is very important. You want to look friendly. You want to look approachable. You want to have a smile on. And sometimes when we record a video, because we're nervous and we have to think about so many different things, we forget to smile. So just make sure you have a smile on. Obviously also not too much, right? Not too crazy. So you're weird looking. Just a normal, warm smile and you can wave and you can say hi and then introduce yourself. So here's an example sentence. What I would say in an intro video and I just wrote, hi, my name is Linda. I'm from Germany and the U S and I currently live in South Korea. I am a multilingual, tassel qualified teacher with a degree in business management and several years of international teaching experience. So this is a one liner was probably two lines. Anyway, it's, it's a, it's one sentence, um, explaining who I am and why I am qualified for this job. So I put a lot of good keywords in there. I put multilingual so they know I also speak different languages. I know what language learning is like. I put tassel qualified in there. So they know I have a tassel. I also put my degree in there. So they know I have a degree. I put my experience in there and I put in there that I have international teaching experience. So not just any work experience, it is teaching experience and it is international teaching experience in different countries. So this would be a great introduction and a great beginning for your intro video. So they already know who she has all the things that we want. Let's keep on listening what, and then they, we move on to the main section and we will go into more detail. All right, Juliano says, well, I believe scripts are important to organize your ideas and give you some track to follow, but you don't need to just use it, but keep in mind what to say correctly. Yes, I completely agree. I completely agree. And actually what I like to use sometimes when I record videos, they are teleprompter apps. So you know how like in the news they always have a teleprompter where all the text kind of appears and they know what to say. They have apps like that. So you could actually upload your script into this app and then it's really great. It's very convenient. And then it records you with the text like the teleprompter and it looks like you're looking in the camera when you're actually looking at the text. So that one also works really well if you have a hard time memorizing your text basically. It's just called, you can Google just teleprompter app and you'll see something like that. Those are very good. Recommend if you get nervous and you forget what you want to say. Those are very convenient. Good. So just keep in mind again for the beginning because the first few seconds matter the most. You want to look happy, smiling, approachable and nice. You want to introduce yourself and have one line why you are perfect for this job. This is the beginning. And then we're moving on to the main section here. In the main section, you really want to go into the nitty gritty and you want to talk about your experience and your qualifications. So you don't want to talk too much about unnecessary things like your hobbies or oh, you can mention your hobbies, but I mean focus on what's important and they just care about your experience and qualifications. And you can also mention a little bit about your hobbies and things that are related to the job that will help you in your job. But you want to keep it focused on experience and qualifications. So briefly outline the qualifications or the work experience you have and the dates and locations like on your CV. You can do that. If your CV is very long, you don't need to mention everything. You can mention like the three most recent ones or like the three or four most important ones that you think. So this is the first section of the main part, your experience and your qualifications. And then you also want to answer questions like why do you want to teach Tefl? Think about reasons why you want to teach Tefl. What is it about teaching English as a foreign language that you find attractive that you want to do? You also should answer the question, why are you interested in this teaching context? So this means if you are applying for a position for a kindergarten, why are you interested? Why do you want to teach children in particular? So you can say something with like, yeah, I love children. I really like working with children, something like that. Obviously a little bit more nicer than that. Or if you're applying for a business English position, you should also mention why do you want to teach business English? So that is very important that you answer this question. And then also the third question you should answer in this main section is why you have chosen this particular country that you want to go to. So why do you want to go and teach English in China? Why do you want to go teach English in Korea wherever it is? Or why do you want to teach English online? So those three questions are important and you need to answer them in this main section because these are questions that employers have and they want them answered in this video. Great question. David says, I have a question. What could I say about my experience if it is my first time teaching English? Yes, great. So you could say something like if you're applying for like a teaching position for children, maybe you have like a little cousin or a little niece that you really like and you hang up with her a lot. You teach her things and that kind of got you interested in teaching English to children, something like that. If you have any kind of experience like tutoring experience, volunteering experience, you can also mention that. It doesn't only have to be teaching experience, any kind of work experience, or maybe you did a job before where you had sort of like a tutoring, lecturing, teaching role and you really kind of just fell in love with teaching and now you want to make this your main profession, something like that. Or maybe you have a friend who was teaching English abroad and they had a great time and you think that this is something you also really want to do anything like that if you don't have any experience. Good point. So the main section obviously will be a lot longer. Again, I didn't actually mention this, but with the intro video, you also don't want this to be a 10 minute long video, right? So I would say maximum five minutes, maximum, you should probably keep this between like two or three minutes maybe. It shouldn't be super long. But the main section will obviously be the longest part. So again, if this first introduction, I mean, you heard me say this, this doesn't take a long time to say, this takes maybe 30 seconds. And then the main section maybe a minute and a half or something or a minute. And then we have the closing, which again, will be very fast and quick. So this is just a final sentence thanking the employer. You can also do a short summary like what you did in the beginning, something like, yeah, this is why I think I'm the right candidate for this job because I have this and this and this. And then you can say, thanks for watching. I'm really excited to find out more about working with you. I look forward to hearing from you. Please get in touch via email. My contact details are on my CV. So a final sentence, thanking the employer, thanking the watcher and providing the best way to get in touch with you. That's also important. How can they get in touch with you, right? Mention that also at the end. So it's kind of a call to action. If you are a marketing person, you will know CTA, call to action. So if you mentioned that, get in touch with me via email, then it's, it entices them more to contact you. Basically, this is a marketing term. But anyway, this would be the closing very fast. So yeah, this is basically the content of your introduction video. This is what should be in the video. We have a beginning where you introduce yourself, your name and a one liner, why you're perfect for the job, the main section, talking about more in detail about the experience and keep in mind the three questions that you want to have answered here in this main section. And then we have the closing where you just, you can either summarize everything one more time, very shard and sweet and thank the employer and provide a way to get in touch with you. And this is the intro video. Now you have filmed it, it's done, right? But how does it actually get to your employer? This is the next point. How does it get to your employer? Now obviously, I didn't put in editing or anything like that. You don't really need to edit. Sometimes what I like to do actually with my video, my intro video that I have on my online teaching platform, I add in subtitles in English, because that's just because English learners are going to watch that and they might not know everything I'm saying or every word. So it's good to have subtitles. You can also do that for the employer. If you want, it's not necessary to have subtitles or do any kind of editing for that matter. It's not important. You can cut off, you know, a little bit of the beginning where your life may be getting your hair ready and you're getting ready to speak. This part you can cut and then at the end when, you know, when you're like moving to the phone and turning off the phone, this movement, you can cut that off. Other than that, you really don't need to do any much editing, any filters or nothing. Keep it nice and clean and professional looking. Yeah, it's not necessary to do a whole editing job on this. And again, we don't need any music. So it's very simple. But then you want to focus on how to save it and how to send it to your employer, how to get it to them in the most effective way. I'm sure we all know this. We send files around. There's always people who send it and then it's the file is corrupted. You can't open it or something. And that's just annoying and you want to avoid that. Any additional work that the employer has to do is not good and not a good impression. It might be a fault, but it just has this sour after taste related to you that you just want to avoid. Make it simple for them. So here's some tips how you can do it. It's always recommended to save your file in the dot M O V MOF format. There are a couple of other formats for videos, but this format up MOF seems to be just the best one for sending files. So if you can use this format and then obviously, we have to think about the file size, right? Videos sometimes are very big. So if it works, you can just attach it normally in your email, right? Or maybe on their websites, they have, if you apply through a website, they might have a thing where you can upload it, you can upload it there. Just keep in mind MOF format is usually the way to go. If the file is too big and you cannot send it, you can try and put it in a zip file before sending it. If you don't know how to do that, you can just Google it. It's a little bit different on Windows and on Mac. It's not very difficult, but you can just put it in a zip file, then it compresses the video, but they can unzip it and it comes out in the same quality as before. Or you can also upload your video to YouTube or Vimeo and you can set it as private. So nobody can see that unless you have a link for it. So you can upload it on YouTube, set it as private, and then just share the link with the employer via email and then they can watch it. Only they can watch it. It is not public when you set it to private. So that's one way a lot of people are doing it. This is also a lot of people are doing this and then they use that YouTube link and they can embed it on their online teaching platform. So a lot of people do it that way too. Or there's another option. You can use services like WeTransfer or Dropbox or Google Drive and put it in there and then share it with people. So you have how many options, a bunch of options sent via email or compress zip file, YouTube or Vimeo, or use other services like WeTransfer, Dropbox or Google Drive. So there's a couple of different ways you can get that video to your employer. They might have a preferred way and they might tell you, hey, do it this way, but they might not and just you just want to make sure it really gets to where it needs to go, the video. Yeah, David says, oh, I didn't know that about YouTube. Thank you. Yes. So that's very convenient. You can just create a YouTube account if you don't have one. Very easy. And then just upload the video. You can put a nice title and a nice description where you can put your contact details and stuff. And then you can set it as private and share the link. It's very easy. All right. Good. Let's see. I think, yes, this was already all of the things we wanted to talk about today. So a little recap here. I know this was a lot of information. Luckily, we can always watch the replay of this video. No need to take notes. You can just come back and watch this again. But just a quick recap of the things we just talked about. So employers like introduction videos to get to know you and to assess your English level. That is the main purpose of this introduction video. Nowadays, you're going to have to send introduction videos with your application and they watch the video. And then usually they decide if they want to schedule an interview with you or not. Now, not every employer wants to have an introduction video, but it's something that we see more and more. And especially with online teaching, there you almost always need to have an introduction video. Then number two is keep in mind to have a clear beginning and the main section and the closing in your content in your text for your intro video and stick to the important stuff, right? Stick to the important stuff, but also don't keep it too dry with professionalism. They also want to see a little bit of your personality. You can't throw a little bit of your hobbies in there and kind of connect that to why you want to teach. So make it also fun and friendly and approachable. Number three, keep in mind to film in a quiet and well-lit space in your home. Dress well and also use proper equipment. Again, make sure your camera lens is clean. It makes a difference. Be positioned maybe in front of your window. Natural light is going to be your best friend. Have a beautiful background. Again, you can blur it out like this, but don't have your bed. Again, behind you, that's not a good look. You can adjust your background, a book, sorry, bookshelf, a map, or something more colorful if you're applying for positions for teaching children. And then the fourth point what we talked about today was saving your file in the Muff format is the best way. You can either attach the video then to your email when you apply or you can send it via a third-party tool like Dropbox, WeTransfer, Drive or something like that. Or you can also upload your video onto YouTube or Vimeo and then set it to private and share the link with the employer. So this is it for today. I hope everything made sense. If you have questions, now is the time to ask. Real quick, this is how you can, this is how you can find ittt. And TefalCourse.net. You're already here on Facebook. You're on YouTube. We also have Twitter and Instagram and all that. So check us out. 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So if you're more into audio only formats, you can go to iTunes, you can go to Spotify, you can go to anywhere you get your podcasts from and you can type in Teflon and T-Saw podcast by ITTT and this will show up. And then this will also be an episode on there and everyone who downloaded this as a podcast episode. Thank you so much. We appreciate that. Great. All right. Give us a like and a follow. And I think you can also rate, right? Leave us a rating, a five star rating for our podcast, please. That will also help us very much. Thank you. Great. I'm still here a couple more minutes. So if you have any questions, don't be shy. Ask away. Ask away. That's what I am here for. Don't be shy. Ask away. And again, we go live every Friday, every week. I'll be here, same place, same time. David says, I have a question. Yes, please. What is your question? What is your question? If you also have any topic suggestions, please let me know. We're always looking for new topics because I go live here for you guys, right? So if there's anything that you're super curious about that you have a question about that you want to see a live session about, let me know and then I will get that done for you. So David, what is your question? I hope you're still here, David. We're waiting for the question or if anybody else has a question, feel free. Feel free. That's what I'm here for answering you guys's questions. All right. Also, if there is somebody who has a question, but you don't want to ask here in front of everybody, you can always hear message me on Instagram at Linda Goes East. If you want to have a private chat, you can do that. I'll always get back to you. Like I said in the beginning here, who said, Prithi said, I contacted you through Insta, but you didn't reply. Send me a message again. I did not see that. I'm really sorry about that. All right. David has a question. If I take a 370-hour TESOL course, which is divided into a 120-hour TESOL course and a 250-hour one, I finish the first one, will I get an individual certification even if I haven't finished the 250-hour TESOL course? Yes, you will. You will. So you get the 120-hour certificate. You complete this course first. You have six months to complete that and then you get your certificate for 120 hours and then you can start your 250-hour diploma course and you have one year, you have 12 months to complete that one because that is a diploma course. So it is more advanced, higher level, research-based. It takes more time and you will have two certificates for that. Yes. Good question. And we have Amitava saying, thanks a lot, Linda, for your ideas and suggestions. Thank you so much for watching, Amitava. I really appreciate you. Awesome. All right. Good question, David. All right. I'm still going to be on for one more minute, so I have time for one more question. If there's somebody who has one more question, let me know. Oh, Daniel. Hey, how are you? Daniel says, hey, Linda, that was another great live session. I have no questions to ask today. Great. Thank you so much for commenting though. I appreciate that because I can't see who is watching. I only can see how many are watching, but I can't see who. So if you want me, I appreciate you commenting so I know that you are here, Daniel. That's great. Then I can see your name and your picture. David says, okay, thank you very much. I was a little afraid because I thought I needed to finish the whole package. No, no, you don't need to. So with any package, actually, you can choose, I think not with the diploma one, or maybe, actually, but you can choose if you want to have one certificate with everything or if you want to have individual certificates. It's up to you. So if you want to have individual certificates, then you can do that. Juliano says, many students ask about the levels of English language fluency, A1 to CU2, an interesting topic would be that. Yes. Okay. Good. Yeah. Maybe we can do a video about that or a live session about that. Sure. Interesting. Thank you, Juliano. That's a good point. David says, sorry, we're running out of time and I'm trying to write as fast as possible. Well, I control the live, so it doesn't, it's not like it's shutting off. So if you have, if you have more questions, feel free to ask, but you've got to put a time limit on it somehow, right? But if you have more questions, I'm still going to be here. Don't worry. Daniel says, I just watched your, this or that challenge, real on Instagram. Yeah, if you also, I just uploaded that before this live, same outfit. So I just did that this morning. It was really fun to do. If you want to see my reel as well, you can go to Linda goes East on Instagram. You can check it out. Thank you so much as well. Thank you. All right. Awesome. Well, then I think this is it one hour in and usually our live sessions are about one hour. So this is great timing. Thank you all so much for your questions and for your kind comments and for everything for being here. A lot of regular people here. Daniel is here, Giuliano, Amitava, a lot of regular watchers. So thank you so much. And also a lot of new faces here, Bomi Ega, I'm probably pronouncing this wrong. Very sorry. Preeti was here before. David, lots of questions here. Thank you so much for that. Yeah. And yeah, thanks. David also says this. Thank you, Linda. Hope to see you soon. Yes, please join us again next week. Same place, same time. And next week, because it will be the first Friday of a new month, we have a Q&A live. So this is without a topic. It's Q&A. So you can ask me your questions. So David, you can ask anything you want that time. You can prepare a whole set of questions if you like. And then you can ask away that time. That will be next week. Giuliano also says, have a nice day, Linda. Thank you so much. Xoxo, cute. Thank you, Giuliano. All right, guys. Thank you so much. And happy Halloween if anybody's celebrating this weekend. Happy Halloween. Have a great weekend and stay happy. Stay healthy. And I hope to see you all again next week. I'll be here. I hope you'll also be here. And yeah, thank you guys. Bye.