 Hi, Linda here. Welcome back to another live session from ITTT. I'm so happy to be here this week again with another exciting topic. So this week we are actually going to talk about how to navigate the job market for English teachers in 2023. And I'm going to talk about all the things you need to know for finding a job, for getting started as an English teacher abroad and also online. So if your plan is to start teaching English in the near future, this live session will be for you today. And I hope you're going to learn something. Yeah, right off the bat, please don't forget to like and subscribe so you never miss any of our upcoming live sessions. We go live every week, same place, same time. I'm right here and I hope you will join me again. So that you're just staying up to date and you know whenever we go live, I just appreciate it if you could like our Facebook page. We're live on Facebook. We're also live on YouTube, so subscribe to our channel. And then you never miss any of our upcoming live sessions. You get notified, you know when something's happening. So just stay up to date. And how's everybody doing? Where are you watching from today? Let me know in the comments section. I'm in South Korea. It is 10 30 a.m. Friday morning. And what time is it where you are and where are you and how are you doing? Let me know in the comment section below. Also, I want to start off by saying we do have 30% off today. Again, we have a discount code for you. So if you want to start teaching English in 2023, take advantage of this discount. You get 30% off. So why not? Why not? Right? So what you can do is you can scan this QR code with your phone or with any other mobile device. Or you can also use the link that I'm going to share with you guys in the comment section now. So it looks like this. It ends with Facebook live minus Linda and then you know you get 30% off with this link. So you just click on it. It will lead you straight to the application page and you will see a congratulations. You get 30% off right at the top, something like that. And you're good to go. Hi there. We have Kothamala. I'm hoping saying that correctly. Kothamala from Bangladesh. Hi. Thank you so much for joining. What time is it in Bangladesh? Awesome. I love your picture too. It looks very nice. Love it. How are you doing? Daniel is here. Hi, Daniel from Mexico. Awesome. What time is it in Mexico, Daniel? I think it's, we're probably like, I don't know, are we like 12 hours apart? Is it like 1030 in the evening? Maybe something like that? I don't know. Okay. So in Bangladesh it's 733 a.m. Okay. Nice. So we have a three hour time difference from Korea and Bangladesh. Okay. Oh, it's 733 p.m. Wow. That's a big time difference. Okay. Okay. Cool. All right. I see. You're welcome. No, I really love it. And orange and teal. I love that color combination of your dress or your top. It's very pretty. All right. Good. So yeah, like I said, we do have 30% off. So if you're not yet TEFL certified, if you're thinking about it, now is a great time to do so to get started in the new year to kind of check that one of your list. It's a good opportunity to do so. And again, today's topic, we are going to talk about how to navigate the job market for teaching English as a foreign language abroad or online in 2023 in this new year. So yeah, let's talk about it before we jump in. I want to just give a quick introduction about myself and please keep commenting on where you are located. I'm curious to know. And then I'm just going to make myself smaller so you can read this text, but I'm still here. So my name is Linda. I am many different things, but I'm a travel writer and content creator under the name Linda goes East East because I'm super interested in Asia. I love Asia. I love living in Asia. I've been living in Asia for the past 10 years. Yeah, almost. So if you're interested in Asia and want to move here as well, are interested in teaching English in Korea, go check out Linda goes East.com and also on Instagram. I'm very active. I share content on there, but my travels at Linda goes East. So do check that out. And I'm originally from Germany slash USA. My mom is German. My dad is American and I am based in South Korea. Before I moved to South Korea, I also lived in China. I taught English there and I'm still teaching English now. And I also am a Teflon TESOL marketing professional for ITT which stands for International Teflon TESOL Training. I know it's a mouthful, but there we go. Many of you already know ITT and many of you have taken courses. So you know all about it. But just in case you can find our courses, we offer online courses, combined courses, in-class courses, many different types of courses for Teflon TESOL. Do check that out at TeflonTESOL.net. And if you choose to take a course, use this link that I shared a couple minutes ago and save 30%, do not pay full price. Use this link, save 30%. ITTT is a leading Teflon TESOL course provider worldwide. So if you want to teach English as a foreign language, abroad, or online, or maybe in your own country, this is a great way to get started. Really Teflon TESOL is your foot in the door of English teaching, basically. So this would be your first step to get this journey started. So yeah, thank you guys so much for joining. And this is enough about me. And this is what we're going to talk about today, guys. So let's get this out of the way. This is what's on the agenda today, basically. So first up, we're going to talk a little bit about some trends and also the demand for English teachers in 2023. We're going to look at how to find English teaching jobs. And then once you find one, how to negotiate your salary and benefits, what you kind of need to look out for, what you can do. And number four here, standing out in a competitive job market. So what you can do to kind of stand out and to boost your resume. And then we're going to have some final thoughts and also a Q&A session. So at the end, you will be able to, again, ask you questions. But if you have any questions throughout the live session, I can also answer them if they fit in. So yeah, this is what we're going to be talking about today. And Daniel says, Linda, the pictures you share of South Korea are beautiful. Thank you so much, Daniel. I appreciate that. I also actually edited some pictures of my latest trip that I took in November to Cambodia. I'm just now kind of going through all the pictures because they didn't really fit in with the Christmas season. So I didn't post anything, but a lot of Cambodia content is also coming if you're interested in visiting there. It was really good. So look out for that on my Instagram as well and on my blog. All right, cool. So this is what we're going to talk about today. If you have any questions, if there's something that's not clear throughout this live session, you'd like me to repeat or, I don't know, elaborate on, let me know. And if there are some technical difficulties, if at some point you can't hear me or see me anymore, also let me know. And yeah, and Daniel says, show us more of that, please. Yes, I will show you more of all of my travels. It's coming up 2023. It's going to be a very exciting year as well. I already have some travel plans lined up. I'm super excited. So look out for that. But today we're actually going to talk about how you too can move abroad and travel and get paid to teach everything together. So this is how you can get started right here with a Teflon TESOL course and teaching English abroad. So first up, let's have a look at some trends and the demand for English language teaching. And again, this is today's topic for any of you who just joined navigating the job market for English teachers in 2023, teaching English abroad and online. Let's have a look. All right. So let's have a look at the demand for teachers abroad and online. So English teachers, of course, and as we all know, and that's why we're all here, I think, English language education is still regarded a valuable skill in today's globalized world. And that's why we still see a huge demand, right? English is the world's language, right? It's everybody should be able to speak English in today's world if they want to, you know, work in an international company and things like that. So in many, many countries, this agenda is pushed very, very heavily and we see a lot of programs that bring English teachers to their country to teach. And that's why also there are actually many, many options available. So there's not just one way of teaching English abroad or teaching English as a foreign language, but there's so many different options nowadays. It's not just going abroad and teaching in a classroom. You could work at a language school, of course. You could also do some private tutoring and also online teaching is super, super popular nowadays. And actually this is getting more possible even combining online teaching with moving abroad. And this is something we talked about, I believe last week when we talked about yeah, also some trends we mentioned for teaching in 2023. I can't remember exactly, but the topic, but yeah. So many countries are rolling out digital nomad visas nowadays and this would allow you to live in a country but do online work and this could include online teaching. So you can actually combine the two, even if you're into online teaching the flexibility that it offers you could still move abroad and teach. So very, very exciting stuff. So this is something we see and then also of course in terms of the demand and things. So the factors such as qualifications, experience and adaptability are considered important. So these are the three main things that you should have and bring to the table if you want to teach English as a foreign language. And especially of course we know qualifications and experience is important, but I think a lot of people also neglect the adaptability. So what does that mean? A lot of employers actually hiring someone from abroad like a foreign English teacher is very expensive for schools and companies. So they want to make sure that when they hire you you obviously stay with school and with their company. So adaptability, if you already have some experience living abroad maybe you have some language skills maybe you travel to that country before where you want to go that shows that you you are aware of the culture you can adapt to a new culture you're not afraid, you're not because there are a lot of people actually they experience culture shock and things like that and they end up quitting and then moving back or leave the country that happens and so that would be really bad because then they lose money they hired you they spend a lot of money to hire you but then you quit and they have to hire someone else so adaptability is very important for these employers actually. And you want to showcase that and I'm going to give you some tips how you can showcase that in your application in your resume. So these are just three key things that demand for English teachers abroad and online that you should be aware of for 2023. Good let's have a look yeah and we're starting right off with the qualifications so what are the qualifications that you need to have for teaching English as a foreign language in 2023 and we have Claudette here I hope I'm saying that right Claudette hi how are you doing where are you from Claudette where are you watching from let us know please alright so let's have a look at the right qualifications that you will need to teach English as a foreign language in 2023 what are people looking for and maybe a little disclaimer I know this is too small give me a second little disclaimer of course the qualifications the requirements vary from country to country sometimes even school to school okay so there's not just one set list of qualifications that you need to have so it varies and these are just the main things that we see most often alright Claudette is from Brazil I almost wanted to guess that because of your last name Silva Ruas sounded kind of Portuguese or Brazilian to me cool how are you doing what part of Brazil you're watching from Claudette okay so let's have a look at the main qualifications that you need to have first of all of course I mentioned a teflor teesaw certification this is like the most basic thing so if you don't have anything you want to at least get that one and that is already a good boost and not only any teflor teesaw qualification but a teflor teesaw certificate of at least 100 hours is a common requirement and this just demonstrates that you have the knowledge and the skills to teach English as a foreign language obviously that's what the teflor certificate is for right and employers want to see that especially in 2023 because the competition is a little bit more this year because it's post sort of post-covid and a lot of countries are open again and a lot of people who have delayed teaching English abroad plans are now coming back to it so we see a lot more applicants this year so you really want to have a teflor certificate of at least 100 hours hi Amitava hi how are you doing I'm great how are you okay and then also university degree is very important but also not always not always so we see some destinations where you actually can teach without a university degree but if you have one you definitely have a lot more options to choose from so a completed undergraduate degree so this is a three year degree in the UK I believe and then four years in America it depends but a undergraduate degree from an accredited university of course and that's a general requirement for teaching English abroad however as I said not always so if you don't have a degree there's still some options out there it's just a little bit more limited and it might take a little bit more time to find a job but still possible not impossible and then also I wanted to mention prior teaching experience again this is not always required but if you have prior teaching experience this is a huge plus actually so some schools or institutions they may require that you have prior teaching experience in order to be considered for a position but this is we see this a lot in the Middle East and the Middle East is actually the highest paying region for EFL teachers so they have the highest salary and highest salaries and also tax free salaries which is really really cool and that's why their requirements are usually a little bit more strict and higher than other regions and they oftentimes actually want prior teaching experience at least like two years that's why I always say like if you want to teach English in the Middle East the Middle East is a great region to go to after you have taught somewhere else first for example Asia if you taught English in China or in Korea or in Japan or any other country for that matter if you have like two years of teaching experience somewhere else then you have really great chances of making it big in the Middle East alright so these are the main qualifications that we always see definitely a Teflur T-Soll certificate and then a degree is great but even if you don't have a degree it's not impossible and also teaching experience actually when I was teaching in China, in Korea many of my co-workers they did not have any teaching experience they came fresh out of college this is a lot of teachers are doing it like that so yeah it is not necessarily required teaching experience but it's a huge plus if you have it okay alright good again if anything is not clear do let me know and then let's have a look at how long things take and this is something I also talked about in last week's live session but I'm sure we have some new viewers so I just wanted to pop it up here again so this is the teaching English timeline sort of how long things will take from number one here choosing your Tefl course so from taking your Tefl course all the way to starting to teach how long does it take between oh sorry between four and six months sometimes even longer especially for teaching English abroad especially if you want to teach in a very competitive place where interviewing and things in job search might take a little longer but so you want to choose your Tefl course first again there are many different options and I would be happy to walk you through them or you can also email us you know courses I'm going to pop that in the comment section courses at TESOL minus Tefl and you just send us an email and you tell us hey I want to teach English in blank whatever country and then we will be able to recommend a course to you but as I mentioned in this slide before you want to have a Tefl certificate of at least 100 hours so that's why the 120 hour course is our most popular because that's the international standard so this one's always a good place to start then you would choose your Tefl course and then you would start working through the units this is number two here you work through the units and if you have an online course it's super easy to do that you can log in you can study from anywhere at any time you want from any device that you want so that's really flexible and convenient for a lot of people you work through the units and this can take anywhere from a month to you have up to six months to complete the course so a lot of people finish it much quicker it depends how much time you have and your study style for me I completed it in three to four months I believe in 2014 I was already teaching full time at the time so I only did a few units a week and I passed in three to four months so yeah if you have more time you can finish it much quicker than that so but you have up to six months to do it and then of course you would receive your certificate so you get a hard copy an actual paper copy and you also get a PDF version and with this PDF version you can already start applying and doing that number four apply for jobs so you can do that and yeah you would apply for jobs I'm going to give you some tips on how to do that especially this year what is different etc some good platforms to look out for and then you would apply you would interview and then you would hopefully start teaching and this whole process here it's just four to six months I think more realistically is six months and more depending on where you want to go for teaching English online it's usually faster than yeah four months is probably more realistic for teaching English online so this is typically how it works so that you just know kind of time wise and you can plan a little bit better okay good and then let's have a look at finding English teaching jobs so the first step would be to choose your TEFL course and now you do that and you can actually while you're working through your course you can already start your job search so you don't need to actually wait until you complete each step you can do them all simultaneously and you can start finding a job you can start networking and all of those things I'm going to give you tips on how to do that in just a minute I just want to check in with you guys real quick everything cool everything good can you hear me can you see me again where are you at right now there's some new people that joined let me know in the comment sections and also don't forget to like and subscribe guys so you're updated and you know whenever we go live next let me know let me know where you are watching from and I'm just going to have a drink or a quiver not alcoholic I know it looks like it could be whiskey but it's not it's like it's a Korean quarantine Korean quarantine alright good I guess everything is clear then I sometimes give it a few seconds there is a delay sometimes and it takes you guys some time to type of course I get it but yeah let me know and then I'm going to pop it up oh we have a response here Jacqueline hi thank you so much for letting me know video and audio are great okay I'm pleased I do have a little mic here I hope you know it's a little older already so I hope it's still working pretty well and you can hear me clearly I'm Jacqueline from the US Wisconsin cool how are you doing Jacqueline thank you so much for watching and letting me know that everything works well thank you alright then let's have a look at how to find English teaching jobs because that's of course I think one of the most important things and why a lot of people are watching today right taking the course is maybe the easy part but then finding a job kind of gets harder but I will say though if you are if you take a course from ITTT you do have access to job support and which means you can let us know hey I want to teach English in Thailand hey I want to teach English in Argentina and we will help you find a job there so we actually have a big database big network of schools around the world and recruitment partners that we partner with and we can connect you we have a big network and that is what you will get access to if you are at ITTT course graduate just letting you know but of course there are many other ways how you can find a job as well and I always like to combine all of these resources because why not it can enhance your chances right so let's do that let's have a look oh over here I do have two laptops I am always operating okay getting confused alright over here so I kind of came up with four main options or ways how you can find English teaching jobs for a broader online so let's go over these real quick one of course the most obvious ones the ones that we are probably most familiar with are the job search websites right and here are five that I have identified that are pretty good this year that should be on your radar of course as always DAFES, ESL, KFAs, very popular good stuff there and we also have AJR we also have and I think a lot of people don't know this there is actually the Guardian jobs and they also have English teaching jobs in there the Guardian is the UK news is it a newspaper? they have a job section very good job section actually and they have some English teaching gigs on there as well and even sometimes also summer jobs which I find really good because some people might not be ready yet to commit to like a full year abroad so if you want to just get started or you want to boost your resume you can find a summer job like a summer camp or winter camp position in there as well I've seen many of these in the Guardian jobs and then also ESL base is really good great job site and also seekteachers.com so do check out these these are pretty good and I like their content as well so that's recommended then we also have to talk about recruitment agencies recruitment agencies are great because they're free for the teacher so the teacher never pays for the recruiter but the school does so I think a lot of people are confused about that I certainly was when I first started with the search and I thought oh my god I don't want to hire a recruiter I don't want to pay for that you actually don't pay the recruiter the school pays the recruiter so that's important to note you can use this for completely free and so why not why not they know the market where you want to go to they have connections with schools and institutions that are not advertised on these job search sites most of the time right so they have really good insight and they can also give you tips on your resume and for your interview and they also sometimes help with visa processes and things like that so that's why especially for first time teachers I always recommend recruitment agencies and we at ITTT we are partnered with a lot of these so if you go through us and you take your TEFL course you also get access to our partner recruitment agencies because there are some scammers out there for recruitment agencies we hear this or I know this a lot actually back in the day when I worked with a recruiter my recruiter was not very good I would not recommend that one but the ones that we partnered with here at ITTT they are really good and we've been in contact or like in partnership with them for a long time so these are the two most common ways how you can find a teaching job abroad or online but then I also always like to recommend social media especially in our time 2023 social media is everything and you also want to look for or you can look and you can find English teaching jobs on there they are very well advertised on Facebook you have a lot of groups on there Facebook groups I always recommend those like English teachers in Korea English teachers in China English teachers in Blank any country any city there would be a group for that and a lot of teachers because a lot of English teachers abroad are staying maybe for a year or two and then they leave so actually this is most common that they don't stay that long or they move on to a different destination or they go home and so what many people do is actually also from my experience so when you teach at a school and then you're leaving they will ask you hey could you like ask your friends or ask someone if they are interested in taking over your position when you leave and so a lot of people actually put these in those Facebook groups or also groups like expats in X country so expats in Korea expats in China they would put job offers in there so this is one of the first steps that they take because it is free it's not like a recruiter right because the school needs to pay for the recruiter so it's just very easy to just put this job offer like in a Facebook group it's quick and easy and a lot of times this would be their first move nowadays to do same also linked in of course we all know linked in has a job section but also linked in has groups as well and in these groups you can also find jobs for teaching English and also a lot of online positions as well for linked in and then also Instagram a lot of schools nowadays they have Instagram profiles and if you search for example English school in Paris or something hashtag in your school in Paris something like that you can also actually find suitable schools if you already know like hey I want to go to Paris France 100% there's no other option you can kind of use Instagram or other social media to kind of narrow that down instead of using job sites that are more broad right usually on job sites maybe you can only filter for the country but if you have like a specific city where you want to go to especially maybe a smaller city then this approach might work really well and then also networking will be really important and this is also kind of what social media also kind of ties in of course Facebook groups linked in groups all of these are great ways for networking as well and reaching out to other teachers and also I would always recommend bloggers you can reach out to bloggers a lot of bloggers are out there writing about hey what it's like teaching English in Paris or France or teaching English in wherever it is and you can email them you can reach out to them they're usually more than happy to give you advice and give you some connections so that's a great way and then you can also just attend some teaching events usually some events in bigger cities related to that job fairs more often than not will now also have English teaching information but yeah use social media to find connections and then network with your new connections right it's super easy just to click on join group on Facebook but then actually to do the networking that's what's a little bit more challenging or takes a little bit more time but it's so worth it in finding like a good job so yeah these are my four top options for finding English teaching jobs abroad and online let me know if you have any questions or if you want to add something to that and then we could move on to the next point but yeah these five job search websites are a great place to start and then obviously also recruitment agencies we actually have a site let me see we have a page on our website I'm going to pull that up with our recruitment partners so you could also reach out to them let them know hey ITTT send you and then you can also do that here we go this is the website with all of our recruitment partners so you could also contact them but yeah let them know ITTT Linda from ITTT sends you if you send an email they'll know oh I think the link is actually wrong no it is Facebook not the whole Facebook okay with my discount code they're too much okay sending this again this is it with the discounted part I wrote the discounted part wrong here so you still have 30% off okay good good stuff good stuff just checking in everything cool we good let me know are you still there or did you fall asleep let me know thank you and let's see what we're going to talk about next yeah okay now it's all about tailoring your resumes now you found a couple of jobs you want to apply to now it's all about tailoring your resume and your cover letter and what you should do so something very important to note first off you should definitely use keywords that are relevant to teaching right put in TEFL just a foreign language EFL ESL all those things they should be in there because nowadays many hiring managers many HR departments they actually use automated systems to scan resumes for relevant keywords right so they put all of the resumes that they receive through this system and filter those out that don't match these certain keywords and then they only look at those with keywords so very important to put in as many English teaching keywords as you can so EFL, ESL, TEFL, TESOL everything like that teaching English as a foreign language etc etc teaching business English, young learners all of this good stuff you should put that into your resume and your cover letter Daniel says not sleeping at all okay I'm glad I'm glad you're still here listening cool of course you should also emphasize your certifications for this job of course English teaching you want to emphasize any certifications or qualifications you have in teaching English as a second language right you have to put your TEFL on there you have to put your TESOL on there and also and some people forget that you have to include your study hours so if it's a TEFL course 120 hour TEFL course 220 hour TEFL course very different 100 hours 100 study hours of a difference right so put that on there and the more hours you have the better the more hours you have the better and then also of course include any relevant experience right so include any relevant volunteer or teaching experience even if you haven't taught yet if you've tutored someone of course if you've taught English abroad already you should put that on there but if you don't have any experience you can easily find something related to teaching right if you tutored somebody at some point in your life or if you were just like a summer camp person or did some kind of volunteering somewhere you can put that on there just that shows that you something related to like teaching and like leading a group tutoring all these things definitely put that on there that is very important so yeah definitely definitely and I think yeah once you do that you already have good chances you might already have a resume right from a previous job but just make sure that for teaching English you need to tailor your resume and cover letter to that new job right so use the keywords and also use some words that they themselves use in the job offer so if they call somebody a teaching assistant or something like that use that same phrasing in your cover letter and your resume as well so they see that you read the job and be yeah you care you make an effort you use those same keywords they resonate with them I hope that makes sense okay and then we're moving on to negotiating your salary and benefits also very important so you applied for a job you did all the things that you needed to do they invited you you had a good interview and now you are there to negotiate your salary and your benefits or maybe even during the interview right so and to do that first we obviously need to know what is the typical salary and benefits for English teachers around the world and I've kind of categorized this into three different places or regions so we have high earning potential medium earning potential and lower earning potential in terms of salary now of course a high salary might not be important to all of us right some teachers they don't go abroad to teach for the money so whatever your incentive is to teach English abroad just be aware that for some people money is not important and that's also cool so they're set on teaching in certain regions without you know no matter how much they get paid we're all different so it's all cool it's just yeah for your information how the salary ranges in different areas so first high earning potential here you can make anywhere from 2000 to 5000 US dollars per month and like I mentioned in the beginning the highest paying region is the Middle East so Middle Eastern countries Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates Oman Qatar all of these places very very good salaries and also tax free salaries more often so this is really really great you don't pay any taxes on it you usually get insurance you get housing you get airfare you get everything there so this is very good but also very competitive other places include East Asia in particular we have China Korea Japan Taiwan they also have one of the highest salaries here not quite up to 5000 but between 2 and 3000 US dollars would be a good range and they also offer a lot of great benefits so you also have housing free housing here free airfare so free airplane tickets to and from there health insurance and sometimes even a pension scheme that you pay into and then when you leave you get this money back so really really great so a lot of people choose these destinations if they are in for the money they work a couple of years there they teach a couple of years there they save you can save because of these great benefits you don't have to worry about rent you don't have to worry about airplane tickets and nothing you can actually save half or even more of your salary every month depending on your lifestyle so you could send the money back home you could save it of course you could also spend it and travel and do all that so that's why a lot of people choose these high earning potential areas then medium earning potential we have countries like Thailand Mexico and Spain for example they're more than that of course but these are just three of like the main and they're all in different places too as you can see over here you can make anywhere from 800 to 1500 US dollars and in many cases they also offer benefits they might not offer all of these housing airfare health insurance but at least most of them will have at least insurance and then sometimes you can also have housing sometimes you also get airfare so this would be up to you to negotiate and we're going to talk a little bit more about negotiating after this how you can negotiate your salary and these benefits better to your benefit and then we have the low earning potential areas where you can make anywhere from 500 to 1000 US dollars this would be most of Latin America and then also certain European countries like France actually they don't pay very well where else many European countries actually Italy I believe also that's why we actually recommend Eastern European countries like the Czech Republic is really good and their salaries are a little bit higher and usually in these places you will not get any benefits so you have to pay for everything and then it will be very difficult to really save any money at all or even have a somewhat decent lifestyle so that's why a lot of people who go to these areas they do not care about the money they are there for the experience or they take on additional jobs they take on private tutoring or they might also teach English online or do something completely different you could do translation work for example if you can speak those languages as well so it really depends but yeah this is what it looks like typical salary and benefits for English teachers around the world and now we are going to look at how you can negotiate for a fair package a fair salary a fair benefit package how do you do that so first of all you need to know what is what right so first of all do your research research the typical salary and benefit packages for English teachers in the country where you want to teach it and also for the type of school you want to teach at because salaries are different sometimes for private schools public schools universities international schools you have different salaries and different benefits so you need to know first of all what is normal what can I get or can I not get so this will give you just a good idea of what to expect and what a fair offer would be because maybe they are already offering you a fair offer right and you don't want to go over that you might lose your chance and then for your negotiation what you want to do is you want to highlight of course your qualifications and your experience your expertise all of that so emphasize again any qualifications and certifications that you have in teaching English as a second language and any related work experience yes you would already put that in your resume but when you negotiate you can say that again right and you could be like well but I actually have a standard 120 hour TEFL certification course but I also have three additional specializations which actually puts me above average in terms of TEFL training compared to other candidates so etc etc so you can leverage that and again the more TEFL hours you have the better here you can negotiate that any experience so if you worked on something before or maybe you applied for this job and after you applied for a job you actually got some experience then you want to mention that in the interview you could say yeah since actually since I applied for this job I started teaching English online to improve my skills and to get experience so I've been doing that successfully I gained five regular students within two months if you can put out numbers that is really great so you can mention something like that and that will be able to give you kind of a leverage for a higher salary as well and then as always be flexible and be open to compromise so just be willing to compromise on certain aspects don't just expect to take take take just be willing to compromise on certain aspects in order to reach an agreement that works for both parties right that's why it's so important to do your research which is also why you're here and watching right so do your research know what's a fair what does a fair salary and benefit package look like for this country and the specific school so you know how far you can go right but these are just some tips on how you can negotiate for a fair package here and I hope this helped you add anything to this I know some of you have already started teaching and maybe have had already these negotiation talks so if you want to add something to that feel free let me know in the comments and we can share that with everybody yeah and I think the most important step here really is doing your research because if you when you know okay this is like the average salary for this type of school in this country in this city whatever you will be able to obviously recognize right away hey this is a fair offer or no this is actually not that fair and then you can also mention that you can say all but from what I researched and from the people the other teachers that I've spoken to who work in Korea this and this and this is like the average salary so I wonder you know how do you come up with your number how did you calculate the average salary that you offer because I heard or after my research and after speaking with different teachers they told me this and this and this is the average salary and this and this and this are the average or regular normal benefits that you get so that's why doing your research is super powerful knowledge is power again knowledge is power alright good and Daniel says yeah we always want to hammer out a good deal we do and they also want to do that right the school also wants to hammer out a good deal but it needs to be just fair for everybody okay let's see what's next okay let's have a look at how this all looks like for teaching English online so little bit different of course why first of all little bit on teaching online why do you want to teach English online or what are the benefits of course because you can work from anywhere you can work here from your own place from your office but you can also like we said you could move to different country be on like a digital nomad visa or wherever you can go visa free live there and teach online also possible so you can take command really of your own workplace your own environment and your own schedule you could make up where when you want to teach what times you want to teach how many hours a week or a day you want to teach it's very flexible here the average salary range is between 15 and 30 US dollars an hour and some requirements again like in the beginning what we mentioned might be also a university degree a graduate undergraduate degree however not for every platform actually there's some platforms where you can also teach without a degree and a TEFL certification of course will boost that you also need online teaching equipment of course you need a webcam a fast internet sometimes you might also want to have a mic or like a headset you might want to have a ring lights I have a light right here things like that and yet fast internet connection is very important so a lot of platforms they will actually do an internet speed check for the interview or as part of the interview and if your internet is too slow you might not be able to get in so that is also very important so just a few things to know here about this teaching English online and then also some platforms listed that are popular to teach for but basically yeah you would register at one of these platforms and then pretty quickly usually they would invite you to an interview and you might even have to teach a muck class a muck lesson and then once you pass that then you are and you are ready to start teaching English online so this process is usually a lot faster compared to teaching English abroad of course where you need to move to a different country you need to apply for visas etc so if you want to teach English online you can do so usually a lot quicker than teaching English abroad right okay and then oh yeah if you want to know more about teaching English online I did a live session before very comprehensive a complete guide to teaching English online everything you need to know how to get started all the platforms that are good if you have a degree if you don't have a degree if you are not a native English speaker etc all of that you can find out in this previous live session and let me see oh no I can't click on this wait I want to share the link with you uh yes okay I'm going to share the link with you guys so you can watch that if you are interested in teaching English online then you can have a look at it let's see give me one second okay okay here we go so this is the link to this video right here previous live session all about teaching English online go ahead and check that out if you're interested in getting started with that kind of teaching lifestyle I've been teaching English online since I think 2020 yeah 2020 and I love it I never thought before COVID that I would teach English online and I would like it but it's really good like you just need to be ready for your class five minutes before it starts of course you need to prep your material but um yeah you can just do this at home in the comfort of your own home which is great you don't need to leave and go anywhere and you can reach so many different people all across the world you have access to such a huge like student pool it's great so I recommend it alright and then next up we look at how can you stand out in a competitive job market because we talked about 2023 is a little bit more competitive than previous years because now most countries are open again and they're hiring at full speed but also all the people who wanted to teach abroad in the previous two or three years who waited because of COVID are now also jumping in so you have a little bit more competition especially if you want to go to very popular places so again these are the factors that will make you a competitive candidate and these are things we already talked about like the requirements so of course a university degree is going to boost that but there are some places where it's not necessary but it will definitely boost your chances if you have one also for these regions then again at Teflon a T-SOL certificate will also show that you really want to be a teacher and you did the training and you're ready etc and in some countries it is also a requirement to get a work visa so you need to do your research and know which countries those are and then you are ready but even if it's not a requirement a Teflon will really boost your chances and then again any teaching experience you had before any tutoring experience anything like that will also be really great and then something we did not touch on yet is language proficiency so being proficient and being able to really know something about the language of the country where you're applying to teach can really help better understand and adapt to the culture adapt adaptability what we talked about in the beginning the trends and like the for the demand so a lot of employers for a lot of employers adaptability is very important so if you already know something about the country if you've learned the language or this really shows that you are familiar with the culture you are not going to it's not going to get too much for you likely and you're going to leave because hiring again for them is very expensive and they want to make sure that when they hire you you're going to stay and fulfill your contract and the worst thing that could happen is that you up at leave right and then they have to hire somebody again so they want to avoid that at all cost and if you could speak a little bit of the language of the country where you're going to that shows them oh yeah you really want to be here you're not going to leave so that also makes you a competitive candidate how can you boost your skills and experience if you don't have all of these things very easy you can get additional qualifications right so we talked about having the standard 120 hour TEFL TESOL course again yes this is the minimum requirement that you should have but 2023 is a little bit more competitive and because this is the standard many people are also going to have that many people are going to have a 120 hour TEFL certificate so specialized additional TEFL TESOL courses they can really help you stand out get additional study hours and also develop new skills and techniques for teaching and yeah just help you stand out and boost your resume if there's someone who has 120 hour TEFL you have the exact same resume that person has 120 hour TEFL you have the 220 hour TEFL course they're most likely going to pick you because you have more hours more training so these additional courses are really great they don't take that much time very easy to get they're also not that expensive especially with our 30% off link not very expensive so you can easily get those and this really will boost your resume and then if you don't have any teaching experience yet you can volunteer or work as a tutor start teaching English online before you go and this can really give you valuable experience teaching English to non-native English speakers and can help you also build your resume you have something you can put on there to hit those key words in your resume that we talked about before right even if this is just in your own local community you don't need to go out into the world in a different country and teach of course that will be a huge plus but if you can't do that what you can do right now is go somewhere tutor someone in your community and super easy teach English online super easy you don't even have to leave your home to do that so that's a great way to boost your resume and then the other thing for the adaptability part if you already know okay I really want to go and teach English in Argentina what you can do now is take a Spanish course you know immerse yourself in the culture get to know the culture read books about it take language classes anything you can do to develop your language skills you can put that on your resume show that you're already taking steps to learning about the culture you're adaptable you really want to be there so these are some easy ways how you can boost your skills and experience for your resume to stand out in the competition okay and here are some final thoughts just a little recap and then I'm going to get back to Daniel's question here so the most important take away from today what I want you to have and I hope you can read this as a little small but remember that there is a high demand for English language teachers but certain markets are competitive in 2023 most popular countries like China competitive Korea is competitive Middle Eastern countries competitive so all of these places Japan Taiwan if you want to go to those places you need to be a little bit more competitive know that the right qualifications they will bring you closer to your desired goal so have a TEFL certificate if you don't have anything else at least have a TEFL certificate it will really really help you and always use multiple resources for your job search and tailor your resume right so we talked about the job job site job board sites you know what I'm talking about job search sites there we go job search sites we talked about recruitment agencies we talked about social media how you can use that we talked about networking all of these things so don't just use one of these use all of them use all the resources and again if you are an ITTT course graduate you also have access to our job support so you can also use that and don't forget to tailor your resume if you have a resume that you've written like a couple years ago for a different job tailor it don't send out the same resume right tailor it to English language teaching add in relevant keywords TEFL, TSL, EFL, ESL teaching English at the foreign language all of these things you want to add that in because if they scan it and you don't have these keywords you might already be out very important then like some skills boost your skills and enhance your resume with additional courses with teaching English online with language courses all of these things really boost your resume and make you stand out and then most importantly of all I think the last tip here be patient and flexible when looking for the ideal teaching position maybe you have your heart set on a specific country but it turns out oh this is too competitive right now or oh I don't have the necessary skills yet to teach there be flexible choose a different destination and maybe once you've been there a year or two then you can go to the place where you actually really have your heart set on right so yeah these are my tips and I hope this is what you can take away from today and thank you guys so much for watching and I think now we do have the Q&A so feel free to throw your questions at me we still have a couple of minutes here for Q&A and again we have 30% off as well if you want to get started with your teaching English career abroad or online um take the course 30% off don't pay full price this is the link down here ends with FB live minus Linda and this will get you 30% off and here Daniel says you guys have got us covered we do we do and that's why I'm here and giving you this information all for free because knowledge is power the more you know the more you've done your research the better and Daniel has another question I'm going to answer right now Daniel is asking and I'm going to make myself bigger here Daniel is asking Linda how long did it take for you to feel 100% adapted to South Korea did you feel home sick at some point okay I think there is no such thing as being 100% adapted to a place especially in a place like South Korea where it is pretty clear when I step outside my door and people are looking at me it's pretty clear I am not a local right so you are never 100% going to fit in here right this might be different then when you go to a different European country or somewhere different where you also could actually pass as a local I do not here so I never will 100% fit in and also because cultures are very different I don't feel like you can ever 100% adapt I am also in an intercultural marriage so my husband is Korean we've been married for years and I don't know what I have learned is just what we talked about today as well compromise it's all about compromising it's all about understanding each other and also if you work at a school in a different country they know you are not from there and they will also understand you likely because they know things are different where you are from because they hired many teachers before and at the same time they also hope you will respect their culture and their work culture etc so I mean I've lived in South Korea now for seven and a half years close to eight years in May it will be eight years so yeah it never 100% you never get 100% adapted to I think a different country because you are not from there and your culture is still very much in you but you learn how to deal with it better how to compromise and I think the beauty of this is also that you learn you see things from a different perspective and this is very important that makes you a better person and if you decide to go to a different place go back home this is something that a lot of employers are looking for somebody who has spent time abroad and who can see things from a different perspective many different perspectives I think that, I don't know does that answer your question I don't know that's how I feel at least oh and did you feel homesick at some point in the beginning I actually did not feel very homesick I loved living abroad and new experiences the older I get and the longer I've been away from home I think the more homesick I get because now it's and especially for the holidays that you miss the birthdays that you miss and then whenever I do go back home and I see how people have moved on even like the what's on the news or like the TV shows that I'm not aware of and things like that it's like oh it's so weird like everything moved on right you move on here but also everybody in your country moves on with different things and things change but yeah I think this is a whole this is something we could talk about for hours reverse culture shock culture shock and adaptability and things like that so it's not easy it takes many many years and I think nobody can ever 100% adapt to one place because you still want to be very much yourself as well it's all about compromising and understanding each other that's what I would say to that I hope that makes sense but thank you for the question um yeah let me know anybody else has a question I don't want to ramble on too long um if anybody has a question about today's topic about teaching English about Tefal, TESOL let me know and I will do my best to answer that also if you have a uh suggestion for future live session topics let me know what you want me to talk about in the future perhaps Jacqueline says thank you very informative oh thanks yeah I'm trying sometimes I don't know how to talk I hope I make sense alright Daniel says it did thank you for sharing your experience with us it's always nice to hear from others experience when they move abroad yeah I agree I agree and also don't forget like everybody's experience is different right everybody's experience is different my experience is not going to be your experience it's not going to be Jacqueline's experience it's not going to be who else is here Amitava's experience Claudette's experience right everybody's experience is different so but I think that's something yeah you should you need to be aware of like if you want to move to um yeah as a western person if you want to move to Asia something maybe to think about that people are going to know you're a foreigner always right you always look like you're a foreigner it's not like if I went to um if I went to maybe I don't know France or something they might not you can't see like I'm a foreigner there um probably as much maybe like just the hairstyle and the clothes might be like a giveaway but um just from looking at you or looking at me people wouldn't know that but here people always know right so Amitava says how does it feel to change oneself once mindset as well as experiencing different culture shocks from the oxidant of oxidant to the audience love it yeah um you know I I think you don't like in the moment feel like oh I've changed like my mindset's different now but you you've you feel that maybe when you go back home and you talk to your old friends and you talk to your family after living abroad for many years that's when you realize oh yeah I changed or oh I have a different view now um it's not like you suddenly realize that yourself because it's a gradual process also so I think yeah you only kind of realize that looking back maybe on I don't know you're yourself from before um yeah but I think we always change right we always change no matter if you live abroad or not like you just change you're different today is different than Amitava two years ago I would probably say right um but yeah living abroad definitely changes you right definitely changes you but um I think that becomes more clear once you go back home um and then you see like oh this is what life back home was like you talk to your old friends and you talk to your family and then you realize oh yeah I did kind of change so yeah Daniel says so true we can't simply control everything that might happen to us especially when moving abroad as you can tell yeah I agree I agree interesting yeah good stuff thank you for your questions that's very interesting I'm glad you're interested as well yeah and there's this quote isn't there like every what is that everywhere I go I left a piece with my heart or something like that or it's like everywhere you go you buy like a souvenir but the souvenir is in yourself like something changed in yourself kind of like that is that too cheesy I don't know oh man all right good does anybody else have one more question oh okay well Linda did your father and mother experience a new daughter or rather a newer and updated version of Linda after a gap of these two seven and a half years um yeah well I mean you know I we always spoke with my parents regularly or I speak with my parents regularly right um but I think definitely they uh you know I've grown I mean I'm 30 now and so when I moved here I was well when I moved abroad the first time I moved abroad to China I was that was 10 years ago so I was like 20 was actually 19 I believe 19 to 20 I think it was 20 um so I'm definitely different now than I was 20 but I think everybody is different now than or different at 30 than when they were 20 right um yeah but definitely definitely I think uh they see yeah I've changed um but it's you know it's hard to say because everybody changes I don't know I don't know how to answer that that's a difficult question we should ask my mom we should invite my my parents next time on to the live session and you can ask them I mean I can definitely tell that I I I would probably be very different if I had stayed in Germany or in America and not lived in Korea for seven and a half years I would probably be a very different person yes for sure I think with anything your environment um has an effect on how you change right um yeah I don't know what to say very philosophical yeah that's deep I know I know very deep deep conversations good all right well that's a good question Amitava thank you so much anybody else have one more question I'm gonna take one more question and I'm gonna go I think we're one hour 13 minutes in we don't want to go too long but this is very interesting um so if somebody has one more question and then maybe I'll leave or we just leave right right away let's see I want to give everybody the opportunity to ask away so I don't want to leave too early but um let me know let me know if you have any questions before I go and yeah don't forget to like and subscribe as always and um I hope to see you all again next week same place same time topic suggestions let me know I think I don't know yet what I'm gonna talk about but we'll figure that out oh Daniel does the negotiation talk change depending on the country that you are in or where you're from oh yeah I mean definitely there's some cultural differences right how to negotiate in different countries um some intercultural things some countries might find it maybe more rude if you're more direct in some countries you might have to be a little more indirect so this really depends on the country yeah that's a good point um there might be different negotiation techniques right um yeah so again do your research do your research and maybe ask people network with people who are already teaching in the country and see um if there's anything that you need to be aware of but yes definitely there are cultural differences in negotiating as well that's a good point yeah yeah good point but then again I think um and this was something from experience from living abroad um people are usually very open minded because they know like you are a foreigner you're not from this country and this culture how would you know that but then there's probably also some people who don't think like that and they're like oh you're rude um but most of the time people don't expect you to know all of these things because you are the foreigner um they kind of usually give you the benefit of the doubt with that so don't be too worried about that I can always be polite right you always want to be polite you're not yelling at people and I don't know always yeah trap with caution and be always be polite right so yeah but that's a good point alright good maybe we can talk about some cultural differences in the future that be a really good topic but I think we're going to end it here now so this was today's topic uh let's go back yeah navigating the job market for English teachers in 2023 I hope you took away something today something interesting that will help you in your job search um in navigating and getting that started for you with English teaching a broader online and um yeah it was very good thank you so much for your questions today and I hope to see you all again next week I will be here and I hope you will be too and um yeah guys don't forget to like and subscribe and have a great weekend wherever you are whatever you're doing stay safe and I hope to see you all again next week thank you guys so much yeah see you later bye