 TEFL-Tezal Guide to Teaching English Abroad. Recruitment Agencies The use of recruitment agencies to assist in the job search is perhaps lower now than previously as now many employers can simply list their vacancies on the internet for a much lower cost than the agency's charge, however some major employers still use these placement organizations to help them fill their teaching vacancies. The quality of recruitment organizations can vary widely. The better ones will have visited the employers they recruit for and will know them inside out and therefore will be very careful with who they recruit. Sadly other organizations are happy just to take the recruiters fee without any real knowledge of who they are recruiting for and this has led to some unfortunate experiences for teachers. Recruiters make their money by charging the employer and therefore the service to teachers is usually without charge. Some of these agencies specialize in a particular country or region and others offer a more international range of job opportunities. Often local recruiters are a bit more reliable than the international ones as they are usually have greater first hand knowledge of the schools and companies that they are recruiting for. We can provide details of some of the major recruitment agencies to graduates of our courses. Male email shot. A mail shot or more frequently these days an email shot is where a job seeker gets a list of schools in a certain town city and sends a letter of application together with an attached CV resume to all the schools on the list. This is a speculative approach as many of the schools will not have any vacancies at that time but such an approach does offer many advantages. It allows the teacher to target all the schools in a specific town city region quickly and efficiently. It reduces competition for any jobs if you can get your application in before the school has the opportunity to advertise a recent vacancy. Many schools rely on speculative applications as they don't incur the costs of international advertising or recruitment agencies. Schools will keep your application on file even if there aren't any vacancies at the present time. If the teacher targets enough schools it is likely that some of them will have a number of vacancies at any given time and you can expect to receive a variety of job offers interview invitations within a fairly short space of time. We have a database of language schools throughout the world that we make available to graduates of our courses but you can also get lists of schools from the yellow pages or other directory of the city you are interested in. If there is a British council office in that area they will also often be able to supply you with a list of schools. This is perhaps the experienced teacher's favorite method of conducting a job search but should work equally well for a newly qualified teacher. On the spot.