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So as you can see, today's topic is about age. So does age matter when teaching English abroad? That's what we're gonna talk about today. And let me just, okay, let me just set that up. Very good. At any time, as always, feel free to ask questions. Also, there will be a Q&A section at the end of the session where you can ask questions that are not related to today's topic. No problem at all. And then we can jump into it. I think I've mentioned everything I need to mention. If you're listening, I didn't mention that. If you're listening to this as a podcast episode, thank you so much for the download. We always turn our live sessions into podcast episodes. So if that's something that you're interested in, you can also download our ITTT podcast. We're on all major podcast platforms. So do check us out. It's called the Teflon and TESOL podcast, the ITTT. You can find it there and you'll also find this episode there very soon. Okay. If you've seen my live sessions before and some of you have, you already know, I like to use slides like this in my live sessions just to kind of illustrate things and provide more information. So that's what we're gonna do today. A brief intro also as always about myself. So my name is Linda. I'm a travel writer and content creator under the name Linda Goes East. East because I live in Asia. I have a passion for Asia and that's just what I do. You can also find my own website at lindegosings.com. I share travel content on there and also stuff about life in South Korea and things like that. And on Instagram, I'm also very active on there. So do give me a follow if you're also on Instagram would be really cool to connect with you. It's also at Linda Goes East. I'm originally from Germany and the US. My mom is German and my dad is American. I'm currently in Germany as well, but I'm actually based normally in South Korea. I've been living in South Korea for six and a half years, but now I'm taking a break and I'll be in Germany over the holidays and a couple of weeks. And then I'm going back to Korea. On the other hand over, can I move the mouse? Yeah, over here. I'm a TEFL and TSOL marketing professional for ITTT, which stands for International TEFL and TSOL Training. You can find us at TEFLcourse.net. And I know that some of you are already TEFL and TSOL certified by ITTT. If you are, let me know in the comments. If you are an ITTT grad, just raise your hand or give me an emoji, a heart or something like that so that I know that you're an ITTT grad. That would be really cool. We're also on Instagram at International TEFL Training. If you're an Instagram, also give that a follow, that'd be really cool. But we also have Facebook, where many of you are watching from at the moment and also YouTube. We're also, many of you are watching at the moment. So those are the biggest ones, but we're also actually on Pinterest. We're also on Twitter. And we do many other things. And yeah, what is ITTT? If you don't know, ITTT is a leading TEFL and TSOL course provider worldwide. So yeah, that is who I am and who I work for, who ITTT is. And I just saw a comment here from Mariam, who is watching from Tunisia. Very cool. Thanks so much for being here. And also Ma Tiora, I have him saying that correctly from Bangladesh. And he says, I couldn't join you for a long time because of my business. Well, thank you so much for taking the time today and being here today. It's really great. I hope your business is doing well. Okay. I already feel my throat hurts a little bit. So I might have to drink a little bit more coffee and take some breaks throughout the session. So please be patient with me. It is getting very cold in Germany. Actually, we had some snow today already. So I didn't go outside though, but my mom and I, we actually decorated our porch area for Christmas. And maybe that's why I can feel it in my throat today. I don't know. Anyway, let's jump in. So today's topic, we already mentioned it, does age matter when teaching English abroad? That's what we're gonna talk about today. And also, let's have a look at the agenda. So these are the things that I'm gonna be mentioning that we can talk about and have a chat about. And also, if someone here is an older teacher who has experience, please feel free to add any comments or feedback, because obviously this is, I can't speak from my own experience. So this is just things that I have researched and I've spoken with other teachers who are older and I took their information and put this in my life session. So at any time, feel free to add your comments that'd be really awesome. So first, we're gonna talk about advantages of older teachers, why are they great? Why, yeah, what are the benefits of hiring an older teacher, of being an older teacher? Also, we're gonna talk about the age limits in EFL teaching, English as a foreign language. Then we're gonna talk about different challenging regions and countries where older teachers might have more difficulties finding a job. And then we're gonna talk about suitable regions and countries where it's easier to find a job as an older teacher. We're also gonna look at different tips for mature teachers, how you can kind of polish your resume, what you can do to enhance your chances. And lastly, we're also going to talk about teaching online as an older teacher, which is more and more popular, so I thought I'd throw it in there as well, because why not? And this is the agenda today. So I hope you're happy with that. It's probably gonna take, usually it takes between 45 minutes and an hour, so just be aware of that. But as always, you can watch, you can come back and watch to replay if you don't have enough time today, no problem. All right, let's jump in. And first off, I just wanna say, if you are really worried about your older, you wanna teach abroad, you are never too old to teach English abroad or online. Age is just a number, you're never too old. So there always, if you really want it, you can make it happen. So don't be worried about that. You're never too old to teach English abroad or online. There are always opportunities also for more mature teachers. It is not impossible. Don't worry about that. And that's why I am having this live session today to help you out. All right, let's first look at the advantages of being an older teacher. So I have two categories here. One is the broad experience that older teachers have. So for example, you as an older teacher, you will have a wealth of classroom conversation topics in hand and invaluable insights to share with your students because you have a lot more life experience, correct? So you'll have a lot more stories to tell and maybe you've lived in different countries before. So there's a lot of life experience there. And you're also likely gonna have more people skills and communication skills that you can then use to your advantage. Also on the other side, the professional experience that you have the professional expertise, especially if you are coming from a different professional background. So if you were not a teacher before you now decided to be a teacher, you can use your knowledge in a particular field. So if you come from finance or you come from medicine or you come from engineering, you can then use this in your classroom and specialize in teaching English related to that field. So for example, we have a lot of people who worked in business management kind of roles and then they decide to teach business English. So they are able to use their expertise from leading a company in the classroom then and teach business English, for example. Or I've also had a student before who was a doctor and he wanted to improve his English to then teach. I think he wanted to move to America and work at a hospital there. So it would be really cool to have a teacher who also has a medical background who will be able to kind of give him that specialized English training. So that's what I mean by that. Okay, let's have a look at the comments. I see there are some comments. And this is Juliana. You always ask the best questions and maybe I should have actually mentioned that first, how old is considered as older teachers? How old is old in the teaching world? Yeah, that's a good question. And I think it really depends from person to person, country to country. What I can tell you where it gets more challenging in terms of teaching is 50, 55, 60 plus. That's kind of the range we're gonna talk about today but also some schools might, or some people might even say 40 is old for a teacher. Obviously I disagree. Also I disagree with a 60 being too old but these are the numbers we're gonna talk about in terms of also the regulations that some countries have. So good question, great, great. Okay, then we have Amila here who says, please explain which countries are the best for ESL teachers, not native. That's good, okay. And qualifications expected by recruiters, yeah. We actually, so this is where I wanna mention that my colleague Lisa who's actually a non-native English teacher from Russia, she did a live session just about this topic, also the best countries for non-native English teachers to work in. So I highly recommend you checking that out. And then, because that's not what we're gonna talk about today but we already have that in our playlist. So I highly recommend checking out the playlist and navigating to that specific video. All right. All right. Karen says, I know some Asian countries have mandatory retirement age levels. Yes, they do and I'm gonna mention that in just a little bit, but yes they do. And that's kind of the problem for older teachers, the retirement age in certain countries. All right. So question is now, is there an age limits to teaching English abroad or online? So generally speaking, there is no strict age limit or age restrictions for teaching English abroad or online. However, older teachers can come across challenges when finding work in certain regions. And these restrictions, that's what I mentioned down here because that's the important part. So these restrictions, they often come from a country's rules and laws for retirement age and visa requirements for foreign workers. So it's not that there is a limit or an age restriction from the schools or anything like that. It is from the government. It has to do with the retirement age. And we're gonna look at that a little bit more in detail. Hi Omar, thank you for joining us. Welcome, welcome. All right. Let's have a look at challenging ESL job markets for older teachers. First up here we have China, for example. In China, if you wanna teach English in China, you need a Z-class work visa. And this is only available to men under 60 and women under 55 years of age. That's the retirement age. And this is similar also in Thailand and in Vietnam. So here if you're older than 60 or 55, you're gonna have some problems, might be difficult. However, when I was in China, I also met various teachers who were actually older than 60 or 55, but in recent years they have certainly tightened the restrictions and made it more strict. So it might be different now. Then also the Middle East, here we have the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar that have a retirement age of 60. So if you're older than 60, it's gonna be difficult to secure a job there. And also South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong, they also enforce strict retirement ages between 60 and 65 years old depends on the country. But this is the age range that we talk about here. So 55 to 65, if you're in this age range, those countries here are not going to be suitable for you. Let's have a look at the countries that are suitable. The best countries for older teachers abroad. Number one here, there is no particular ranking or anything. The first one I wanna mention is Mexico. Here, as you can see, I always have pros and cons. So the pro here is that there are no age restrictions and no mandatory retirement age in Mexico. So you are free to teach in Mexico as long as you want. The con however is that the salary is low and you should arrive in Mexico with some savings so that you'll be able to support yourself and take care of any possible emergencies. Then also we have Ecuador, which these points refer to. So a pro for Ecuador would be that it's easy to get around there and stay healthy in Ecuador. They also have really great medical facilities and smooth running transportation systems and your safety and health will always be a priority in Ecuador, which is really great. It gives you this feeling of safety. The con is that while the cost of living here is very low, as a teacher you will receive lower pay than what you're used to. So meaning you'll have less to save when it comes to traveling on your own. So this is kind of a theme and Costa Rica also kind of falls into this category. Costa Rica also is a good place to go for older teachers abroad and there are some more I want to mention. So the other one I want to talk about is Malaysia. So pro here is that in Malaysia there are no peak hiring seasons in Malaysian schools. And this means there is a healthy demand all year round. And this creates, yeah, there are plenty of jobs overseas for older teachers in this very diverse Asian nation. You can find a job at any time. A con is that there also is a retirement age of 60, which is mandatory. However, I actually found out that some teachers in a survey done by the International School Review, they said that in some cases they could keep their jobs in Malaysia after 60, but they definitely lost some benefits and received lower pay. So you can definitely hear if you're interested in Malaysia you can definitely continue teaching there even after 60, but you might lose some money. Then we also have in Europe, Czech Republic. A pro here is that in the Czech Republic age really is just a number and schools in this country they really have no age restrictions for teaching English overseas. And they have even instructors there in schools that are in their 70s. So they're very open-minded regarding age. However, if you're not from the EU it the securing a visa to stay and work in the Czech Republic might take a little while without sponsorship. So without having a job lined up. So if you want to teach abroad there going through an agency will make the process less difficult manageable. So agency meaning a recruiter. And also what I always say teachers never pay the recruiters the schools pay the recruiters. So you really can't go wrong with a recruiter here. Also what I wanna say or mention here Russia is also another one that's really good for older teachers with no real retirement age and restrictions in that sense. Okay, and then Omar here has a question. He's asking, are there any differences between older and younger teachers when it comes to restrictions and laws? Well, I would say the only real restriction is the retirement age. But other than that everybody's the same it doesn't really matter if you're older or younger the same rules apply to you. The only thing is the retirement age that if you're over 55 over 60 or 65 depending on the country you might not be able to get a work visa. Other than that you are the same. Sure, you're welcome. Okay, hi there, hi Mikey. Welcome. Okay, all right. Oh, and I saw this nice comment here this is hello, nice to meet you. I'm Svetlana from Russia. I've been teaching English in Russia for 25 years. I'd like to go get a test full T-SAL certificate and start teaching abroad. Can I take your course? I'm 52, that's also a really great question. So actually there are also no age restrictions and age limitations at ITTT to take our courses. You only need to be 18 at least 18 years of age and fluent in English. You also don't have to be a native speaker, fluent is great. So you can definitely take the course. And I don't know if you saw that but we have a 30% off deal off of any Teflur T-SAL course from ITTT. So do take advantage of that. I shared the link but I'm more than happy to share it again for anyone who just joined later. So I'm just gonna paste it again into the comment box and you can check it out. So it looks like this, hold on. It looks like this. And if you click on this, you fill out the application and you get 30% off. Any Teflur T-SAL course from ITTT. All right. Okay, cool. Thank you so much for being so active and asking so many questions as well. It's really great. I love that. Like I always say, there are no stupid questions so don't be shy, feel free to ask. Okay, so these were the countries that are not so great for teachers than the countries that are great for older teachers. And now I'm gonna talk about six tips for more mature teachers looking to teach English abroad. So what kind of tips do we have here? Six top tips. So the first one is consider different regions. So especially Latin America and be flexible, flexible. Latin America is a great place for more mature teachers as we saw Mexico, Costa Rica, Ecuador. Those are all really, really great places for more mature teachers to consider. The second one, certain job markets they can be challenging for older teachers though not impossible. So like I mentioned China, Korea, Japan, Middle East those kinds of places even though I met people who were older teaching in China and in Korea, for example. So it's not impossible, but it might be a challenge. The third one is be prepared to interview in person. So this is a little bit different compared to younger teachers. A lot of times if you are older teachers schools they actually want to interview with you in person. They wanna see kind of how energetic, how physically active or physically, I don't know, April or whatever you are. They just wanna make sure that you have that energy that it takes in the classroom. And this is especially true if you're teaching younger children. This is sort of kind of a stereotype between different schools. I know that this is especially in Korea the case. I live in Korea so that's what I know. But a lot of schools there kind of just think that older teachers might not have the energy to deal with younger students. But obviously it's not always true. But yeah, so be prepared to interview in person or maybe have a longer interview or multiple interviews like Skype even, maybe more than one. The fourth one here is plan on breaking even financially. So as we mentioned before with the different countries actually you're not gonna get rich teaching English in these regions, especially Latin America. The salaries are not that great. And then sometimes you are losing out on benefits, bonuses and a little bit of your salary. If you stay over the retirement age so then it will be very hard to save. So you should come prepared and come already come with savings that'd be ideal. Number five is expect a challenge but it's not impossible. And this is kind of what we already said before. As an older teacher it definitely it might be more challenging but it's not impossible. That's what I said in the beginning. So if you really want it, it is not impossible. You just need to be, again that's the first point flexible, right? Flexible. And number six, a tip would be to get, definitely get Teflon TESOL certified and then also take specialized courses. And I'm gonna talk more about that in just a little bit but those are my six top tips. And I wonder if any of you watching maybe have an additional tip or two that we could add to this list. Feel free maybe to add a comment here. Very curious about any additional thoughts. And meanwhile I'm gonna take a look at Mikey's question here. So he says, Linda, what about teaching experience and certification? Yeah, so this would be the same as any other English teacher going abroad. Obviously the more certifications, the more experience you have the better. The standard minimum qualification is 120 hour Teflon course, the more the better. So specialized Teflon courses as well. And then yeah, teaching experience will be great. And I'm also gonna mention some of those tips later on but the requirements obviously vary from country to country. Sometimes also has to do with visa and things like that. But yeah, they're the same as for younger teachers. Okay, here we have a comment from Mathur. To do a Teflon course, someone needs to complete many stages and many online exams. If a computer expert helps one to overcome the online exams, will it do? Will it be suitable for embassy verification? Does that mean like you wanna hack it? To heck? I'm not sure if I understand this correctly but we do offer notarization and additional verification services if that's what you need and require. That's something that we offer as an additional service for people who need that afterwards. So that is available. But typically if you need help with your course you can choose the tutored version of the course where you have a professional Teflon tutor by your side. You can ask that person questions and they kind of give you additional support. So always all of our courses, they come tutored and non-tutored. And if you think you need extra support you would choose the tutored version. Otherwise you can just do untutored. That would be my thoughts on that. Then we have Amila here who says, I do appreciate the quality service being rendered by you to help all those in need. I wish to know what is the minimum qualification expected to teach English as a non-native English teacher, male. Good, great question. Like I also said before, we have a long playlist of different live videos and we did a specific video about non-native or the requirements teaching as a non-native English teacher, what it's like, all the requirements who did that before. So I had to recommend you checking that out, browse our playlist and pick that video. But yeah, like I just said, the basic requirements usually are a TEFL certificate of at least 100 hours. So we would recommend the 120 hour one. Teaching experience are great, is great but not necessary most of the time. And especially as non-native English speakers or teachers, some kind of English proficiency certificate. And again, my colleague Lisa, she talked about that before, what kind of English teaching, English proficiency certificate would be recommended for that. So I recommend that. Okay, so I see there are more questions but I'm just gonna move on with this topic and then we can talk about questions that are not related to our topic today at the end in the Q and A section, all right? So let's talk about teaching online in regards to older teachers. So for teaching online, there are no age limits most of the time. Actually, none of the teaching platforms that I've researched and I've researched a lot, they didn't say anything about age limits. So yeah, online teaching, online English teaching positions they usually don't have any age limits and there are some exceptions however but really not that many. Suitable platforms, I'm gonna mention that as well. I just wanna say that there are teaching platforms and online market places, there's an S missing. But yeah, so teaching platforms are things like the platforms where you use their curriculum and they kind of assign students to you and then you teach them, those are teaching platforms. Online market places are where you basically create your profile, you set up your resume, you maybe even set up what kind of lessons you offer and you also set your own price, your own rates, excuse me, your own rates and that is an online marketplace. So then people can browse the different profiles and book you, so that's the difference and there are so many out there but the best ones are particularly companies that cater to adults or professionals, those are best for older teachers and those include things like or platforms like Open English, EF English First and Learn Light. And I have a special freebie or treat for you here and I know that some of you already have this and I've mentioned it a couple of times now and Mikey's asking, do you know any online teaching platforms? Yes, I do and I'm gonna share a spreadsheet with you and you can download it, you can save it. I'm gonna share it with you right now so you can save that. I shared it before in live sessions so I recommend you click on that and then you just click on file and make a copy and then you can save it on your Google account or what it's called. So it looks like this. Just click on that and you'll see. Yeah, okay, I see some people already joined so here are 20 and it's called 20 non-Chinese platforms because recently there was a lot of issues going on with Chinese online platforms and if you don't know what I'm talking about, I did a live session about that also. A couple of weeks ago, it's in our playlist. I'm not gonna go into it right now but check it out if you don't know what I'm talking about. So yeah, you can save this spreadsheet and there's a lot of info with 20 different teaching platforms, you could check that out. Highly recommend you do that and then you can also see the different requirements in the columns. So sometimes it's like they only hire native teachers, native English teachers, sometimes they also, many of them also accept non-native English teachers, some want experience, some don't want experience so do check that out and as you notice, there's also no thing about age restrictions so yeah, they don't really have that. Okay, all right, I hope everybody's happy with this sheet. I think this is so helpful and I've shared it already a couple of times during my live sessions but there are still some of you who are joining for the first time or you didn't see it previously so I just wanna share this again with you all that was online and yeah, I just also wanna mention that ITTT has lifetime job support so that means that any ITTT, TEFL and T-SOL course graduate has access to lifetime job support, it never expires, once you took a course with us you then are eligible to receive the support and this support gets you access to our database of potential employers so we work with a lot of different schools and recruiters and people in the ESL field who are looking for ITTT certified people and we kind of connect you guys with schools all over the world and this includes exclusive leads on unadvertised jobs that you get, you also get advice on constructing a high quality CV of resume which is really great because teaching resume, TEFL resumes sometimes a little bit different from a traditional resume. We also help you with writing your cover letter because there are also some things you need to change compared to a normal cover letter and we also provide assistance with planning trial lessons for job interviews because sometimes more often than not for teaching positions because you get hired from abroad so you have a Skype interview so they can't really give you a trial period or anything like that so what a lot of schools want is their teachers, potential teachers hold mock lessons during the interview, Skype interviews so they would give you a topic beforehand and you would then prepare for that and deliver a mock class, how you would teach so they can kind of see your energy, your vibe, your teaching style, things like that and we can help you with that as well. Also obviously for older teachers we offer that as well. Then I have some bonus tips for you before we open the general Q and A. This is something I mentioned already but taking advanced or specialized TEFL certification courses and on our website when you go, okay let me see. When you go to courses and then you see like online courses, online diploma, in-class courses, et cetera, et cetera and one of them says specialized courses so you click on that and then you see the different kinds of specialized courses that we offer so for example, teaching business English, teaching English online, teaching young learners we offer all different kinds of specialized courses that will boost your resume and especially great if you wanna specialize into these fields, right? Into business English, if you wanna specialize into that you take that course, et cetera. Also second tip here, the, here's my mouse, volunteer teaching boosts your resume so if you're coming from completely different fields you've never taught before, you might wanna start kind of volunteer teaching in your neighborhood or there's always opportunities out there if you don't have any opportunity you can just go with online teaching. Online teaching is great to gain initial experience so that is also an option and I just shared with you 20 amazing teaching platforms that you can refer to and sign up. Many of them don't have any minimum hours that you need to teach, some of them do but many don't so you can literally just teach one hour a week and that'll be fine and you can get some experience so anybody even if you're working, you can fit that in and then also the fourth tip here is to join online forums and Facebook groups for networking so this is not only for older teachers but literally anybody you just type in, I always say that teachers in Korea, teachers in China, et cetera and you'll find so many different Facebook groups you can network, also on LinkedIn you can reach out to people, pick their brain a little bit most people are very friendly and welcoming and like to offer their advice and help to others so definitely also do that, I always recommend it and yeah, this is it. Before we go into Q and A I just wanna mention one more time how you can find ITTT online how you can sign up for your course so we are at teflacourse.net and again, I recommend using our 30% off link if you are interested in taking a course I know that many of you are and we have this amazing 30% off situation that we only share during our live sessions so it's very special you can also find us here as you can see on Facebook where many of you are watching right now Twitter, Instagram, YouTube where many of you are watching also Pinterest and again, if you are interested in maybe reaching out to me here at Linda Ghost East on Instagram many of you have already sent me private messages, DMs I'm always happy to have private one-on-one chats with you there are some people who don't wanna ask questions in front of everybody watching I completely understand so if that's the case feel free to send me a message that's totally cool and then let's go into Q&A and I'm gonna make myself a little bit bigger again Hi and I know that there are some questions so I'm gonna look at that in just a second I just need more coffee I think All right, good here we are so what was the name I forgot? Oh here, Svetlana Svetlana is asking can you help to find a job in Peru? Yes, we can definitely Peru is an amazing place we actually work closely with recruiters in Latin America many different countries there in Peru is one of them we also have an in-class center in Peru so yes, we can if you are a ITTT technical course graduate you receive lifetime job support also for Peru or if you are not yet certified and you're interested I recommend if you want maybe next year you could sign up for the four week in-class technical course in Peru so then you're already there and after that you can then already get hired that would also be a great option so do check that out on our website then we have Matt here is there any chance to provide solution face to face on Zoom for the technical course we do have that actually on our website you can just search there's a search function on the website in the upper right hand corner where it says search and you just put in Zoom and then the course will pop up that is also an option it's called, it also has Zoom in the name what is it called? yeah, certificate of teaching practice recognition that would be it so you can check that out we offer that as well then we have Yasin I hope I'm saying it correctly, Yasin I had a great experience studying your technical course and I highly recommend it very convenient ITTT is just the best out there thank you so much that's so sweet thank you Yasin are you teaching abroad at the moment or where are you at? what are your plans? I'm curious if you wanna share let me know always curious what our grads are doing and make sure you have a lot of technical course graduates who are blogging for us did you know that we have a blog? maybe many of you didn't you can check it out it's here tafflecourse.net slash blog and many of our course graduates they actually share some of their experiences on their blog so if you're interested give it a read it's very very very fun very interesting that's also one thing how we like to keep in touch with our course grads yeah alright okay one more question here from Suad I hope I'm saying it right Suad that's a nice name hello I'm from Algeria I studied English linguistics but in my country non-native and I've been teaching English for my nine months now I also have a taffle certificate is it enough to teach in China? yeah with China is very turbulent right now at the moment so if you have studied English linguistics so I think you have a four-year degree that's correct that's a requirement in China you also need to have a taffle certificate which you have so you have the requirements you fulfill the requirements but at the moment also due to COVID it is kind of difficult to find a job in China from outside when you're not already there and also because they tighten some restrictions so maybe because Yacine is saying I'm currently hunting jobs in China maybe you can give Suad some tips what it is how it is right now but I think really from outside it's very difficult at the moment I spoke with a recruiter actually today who told me that it takes a long time now for teachers to get into China because you need a lot more additional paperwork so yeah a great alternative would be Taiwan maybe culture language is similar so maybe in for Taiwan but China yeah it is possible but it takes more time Omar says does online certificate have the same value compared to the certificate that was received by attending class? Good question so online a taffle certificate versus in class which is better well over the years you know like 30 years ago 20 years ago the in class was definitely in class certificate was definitely seen as more valuable higher level higher quality what have you but now everything is online right you can take any course online and now they're really the same level so it doesn't matter if it's online or in class same level recognize the same and also our online taffle certificates they're also on the certificate paper I don't have it now because I'm in Germany now I have all my certificates in Korea but on the certificate you can actually see sample certificates on our website it says it doesn't say that it's an online course from an online course it just says your name the how many hours the date our seal and everything but it doesn't say that it's from an online course either way the training you receive is the same except of course in the in class course you will also have teaching practice which you don't have with the online course right my thesis here in Taiwan also not possible due to restrictions most schools recruit only to those already in Taiwan great thank you so much for adding that yeah so that's a real problem at the moment with some countries it's really difficult I know that for Korea it's easy I know a lot of people like it's not like not harder than before I should say I know many teachers who actually started working in Korea during the pandemic so they just got there they did their quarantine take it out of quarantine and then they started teaching so yeah alright Juliana asks in which situation can people change their current careers in South Korea to teach English there in which situation what does that mean exactly I don't think I understand the question sorry in which situation can people change their current careers in South Korea to teach English there so for Korea they have a specific visa just for English teachers which is the E2 English teacher visa so if you have that visa you can't do any other work at the same time if you have a different kind of work visa you also can't work as an English teacher so it's very hard to like if you want to switch you also need to switch your visa completely first possible but it involves you know more people work and stuff so yeah Yasin says it is hard indeed to get a job from outside of China at the moment I'm having a couple of interviews next week though wish me good luck I use WeChat to find jobs that's a great tip thank you so much maybe Yasin and Suwa maybe you can kind of connect and Yasin you can maybe share some WeChat groups with Suwa to find jobs that'd be really cool also so you are in China already though right Yasin oh great MH Nguyen no I'm saying this wrong I'm sorry MH is saying you can try Vietnam Suwa my company is always in need for teachers EMG education great cool well also EMG education would you mind reaching out to me and maybe you know we can do something with ITTT that'd be really great as well we always look for new partners all over the world so if you're up for it hit me up hit ITTT up so yeah that'd be great I love how we're all like sharing this is what I like about my life sessions we're all sharing information we're all you know exchanging what we know share information so that's really great hi Juliano he says hello Linda it's always good too it's always good watching you here thank you it's always good having you here and we have Glenda who says hi Linda watching from the Philippines is Tefl certificate enough to teach English in UAE I am currently teaching in my country I'm an early childhood educator yeah the UAE is one of the best regions to work as an English teacher they have the highest salary tax-free excuse me tax-free sometimes even so it's a very competitive region and the requirements there are usually very high so only a Tefl certificate is difficult you also definitely need to have a degree sometimes even a master's degree or a degree in English plus two years work experience plus a Tefl and then it can work for you okay Mikey says that is a great opportunity there in Vietnam yeah so remember that guys EMG education says sure I'll let HR team know about you guys yeah please do please do I'm also gonna Google you guys if you have a if you have a website why don't you share it in the comments E what was it called E EMG education do you have a website share that with us okay Matt here is asking can someone get a teaching job abroad going there as a tourist yes many people do that there are many countries where you actually need to interview in person this is typically in Europe where you need to interview in person and also Latin America and sometimes Southeast Asia where you actually need to go and interview in person so people go there as a tourist for the tourist visa they job hunt and then they have to change their visa so definitely possible alright Yesine says no I'm in Morocco right now Suad is actually my neighbor from Algeria cool she can add me and I'd be happy to give her tips about finding a job yeah why don't you guys connect that'd be really great cool I love making friends here connecting people love it okay this has been a really really fun session alright Amela says EMG Education I sent you an email please respond to me at your earliest possibility okay and Mikey says Linda I will send you an email tomorrow okay everybody emailing me alright you can email me that's fine great sure email me you can also just message me on Instagram that's fine too okay we have reached the almost the 55 minute mark so I will be wrapping it up soon so if you still have a question today um get to it and ask away unless if you're not then you have to wait another week alright Juliana can anyone work in a different field and teach English online in South Korea well so if for South Korea if you work there um yeah I mean you can definitely then do you know teaching online on the side for sure you can do that that's what I'm doing that's what I'm doing actually yeah yeah I started teaching English online this year in March it's been great Mikey says you did not answer my previous question I'm so sorry maybe I overlooked I didn't see it can you ask again maybe it didn't come through sorry and we have this name I can never pronounce the name Radikele Radikeleko I hope I'm saying that right so it's lovely eyes thank you I remember you from last week because of the name so thanks for being here again love it alright and Juliano says something that I want to know about working experience working experience in native persons country does it count the same than abroad I mean it counts as work experience for sure yes it does you know if you have experience already working in different country that's obviously also a bonus because they know that you can handle living abroad you can adapt to other cultures and things like that but work experience in your own country obviously also counts as work experience yes oh okay this is the question again from Mikey yeah I did not see that so he says hey Linda if someone already took a 120 hour course and he she wants to take the 120 hour for the second time is it possible to take it again yeah it's possible as long as you pay the fee you can retake the course definitely yeah possible definitely possible you can retake it you just have to pay for it again and we have mh again if you search EMG education online there will be lots of reviews about it okay I'm gonna write this down and then I'm gonna Google this later very curious I'm glad we were able to connect here thanks so much for joining I think that would be great if we could do something EMG education okay writing it down great most of them are not good okay but if you still want to get more teaching experience in Asia you should give it a chance okay great yeah I will check it out awesome alright let's see if anybody has a very last question for today that I'm gonna take I'm getting really hot you can see my face is like getting sweaty but shiny so one more question and then we're gonna wrap it up or if there's no more questions I'm gonna wrap it up earlier but um yeah let's see if anybody else has one more last question and then we're gonna ooh people want to know will there be some discount to ITTT course Black Friday yeah as always we have a 30% off here um so you can take advantage of that as always and we do also have a Black Friday which is also 30% so you actually it's the same there's no and they can't be combined unfortunately so 30% is the best you get here with ITTT today so you can either you can wait for um the Black Friday thing to go up very soon after this or you can just sign up for this one it's the same the good question thank you I've been doing so much Black Friday shopping already yeah all right Mikey says thanks for the time it's late here in Taiwan I'm off to bed yeah it's very late thanks so much for staying up great okay Amila last but not least how about the best country you recommend to anyone ooh great last question you know this is very difficult because it always depends on your goal do you want to teach long term how much do you want like what's more important to you traveling like uh you know the the things you can do in the country or how much money you can save like what is your goal and also what is your background um hmm so that's very difficult for me personally I I really like Asia so I do think Asia is a great place for teaching because the demand is really high um they're always looking for teachers there it's a great area like a great continent to be based in because you can you know explore all other different countries not now obviously but normally um and you can also depending on where you are you can save um money salaries are pretty good so you can save quite a lot from your salary hmm so that's why I think I would recommend Asia so that's not a country but the whole continent so thanks for the question I think I just saw that it was glitching a little bit so I think it's better we just stop now before it gets more glitchy and the connection stops completely um so thank you guys so much for being here today for taking out you know this hour of your day for staying up super late depending on where you are um as always please take advantage of the 30% off discount code um I'm just gonna share it one more time just in case um and yeah I'm I hope to see you all again very soon next week um we go live every week so we'll be here again next week so um yeah thank you so much and um I hope to see you all again next week and then I'm gonna turn this off and um yeah