Tefl Jobs

Tefl jobs are probably most abundant during the summer months of the year. Anyone looking for -well paid tefl jobs- are advised to plan well and start looking early. Decide first of all, where you would like to work and then look to see if the qualifications and work experience you have, match the requirements.

When looking for tefl jobs you might decide to take a -weekend TEFL course- if you have not done one before, or even book onto a longer but more in depth, -Celta, Trinity or Cambridge TEFL course-. Either way, if you give yourself plenty of time to organise tefl work for yourself beforehand, you stand a much better chance of achieving what you set out to do.

You may have to apply for thirty or forty tefl jobs before even getting an interview. However, if you do your homework by asking friends who have travelled, for good agencies and recommendations, you may be fortunate enough to find work without too many application forms to fill in.

Consider how you present your application form. I have heard of companies who advertise tefl jobs and have so many applications each year that they literally sort the mail into two piles as it arrives. One for A4 envelopes which are opened. The other for any other size envelope, these are all discarded; too much effort and too time consuming to open envelopes in which the contents have to be unfolded.

Imagine if you get through this first process, how will your application look to a potential employee? Will it stand out from several hundred other applications? Consider how you can improve your chances of being read, then concentrate on the material within.

Tefl Jobs in -local organisers language schools-

If you would like to stay close to home or at least in the UK, look up your local language schools on the internet or in Yell.com and ask what tefl work is available. You will find language schools in almost any town or city, even small towns will often have what is known as a -'local organiser'-. This is someone who probably only works in the summer months for a language company. They will hire premises such as a church hall or rooms which are low cost and run the course out of it for either one, two or three weeks. The courses will not necessarily run 'back to back' in other words, thoughout the summer during the main summer holidays, they will probably run two or three courses, some over lapping and some with a few days or week or so in between.

Bear in mind that many of these courses will have younger children on them who are 12 to 16 years of age and the local organiser will only need -language teachers- in the morning as during the afternoons the children will go on sightseeing trips to local places of interest. Your wages will not be great and the hours might only be three or four a day (for slightly older children you may get a whole days teaching but these courses are less frequently run) but you will gain valuable experience and this will stand you in excellent stead for a following year if you wish to travel further afield.

To find out about local trips keep an eye open for newspaper ads or flyers asking for . They will have a number on of the -local organiser- . Make sure you present yourself well and appear keen. Ask to meet, even if they have their teachers for the year, sometimes teachers drop out at the last minute and if they have met you, you stand a good chance of getting the new offer should a drop out occur.

TEFL jobs in Language schools in the UK

Tefl jobs abroad

 

 

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