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danielita · Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 281 Location: SLP

Has anyone ever heard of or used TeacherMEXConnect? They have some interested postings, but very little information about the schools on their website: http://www.teachermexconnect.com/

Any feedback would be great!
Thanks!
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lozwich · Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 1536

Try doing a search here. There's lots of previous posts about this crowd.

Have a good day,
Lozwich.

danielita · Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 281 Location: SLP

Lozwich,

Thanks for the info...I did a search and it turns out I am better off keeping my $$ in my wallet than sending it to them.

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jenniarriaga · Joined: 15 Mar 2006 Posts: 3

I don't want to step on anyone's toes here because I am new to this forum but I have to say that sometimes it is not very informative nor accurate. My friend Tracy and I graduated from Teach International and we applied for jobs through TeacherMexConnect. It took a few months but we both got jobs in an excellent school in Mexico. It was worth waiting for considering that we paid $25 as opposed to $400 that some other recruiters are asking for. Anyway I am not saying the other recruiters are not any good but that TeacherMexConnect is a good, affordable service.
Someone here says to look at past posts regarding this company and if you read one of them carefully although negative think about what that teacher is saying a little more carefully. That she was offered a job at $7000 pesos per month and not $8??? That is kind of picky I think to say the least. By the way $7 in Mexico is not that bad!!

ls650 · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 3484 Location: British Columbia

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ls650 · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 3484 Location: British Columbia

Gotta agree with Ben. This is the huge drawback with TEFL in Latin America: it's a great place to experience culture and life, but the wages are very mediocre when compared with Asia.

7000 pesos is a very typical starting salary for a teacher with a BA plus TEFL certificate but little or no teaching experience. One of my former co-workers started off teaching at a colegio in Pachuca for 6800 pesos per month (and that was 30 hours contact time per week). Also, the only privately-owned TEFL school here in my town pays its two teaching staff 7800 pesos per month.

With an advanced degree and experience you can hope to earn more, but there is no guarantee.

MELEE · Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:34 pm Post subject:

jenniarriaga · Joined: 15 Mar 2006 Posts: 3

Well I was only trying to be helpful and give some feedback for those doubting the service since people like to only write when they have something negative to say. Actually the previous comments are not entirely negative so I am not the only one. Betty stated something positive comments as well as Justin, who seems to own a school. Anyway if anyone would like to PM me and find out more about my experience or Tracy's, please feel free to do so. I would prefer that because this forum seems to want to focus on negative comments not positive, as well as be unnecessarily sarcastic as in the case of the oldtimer comment. Also my comment about $7000 pesos was not to suggest this as a great salary but as a rebuttal to the complaint from the teacher that suggested she didn't get her money's worth because she was promised an $8000 pesos job and got offered $7. My point was that I believe she received an offer close enough to her expectations and therefore her complaint was unwarranted.

gonzoteacher · Joined: 27 Oct 2004 Posts: 13 Location: USA

I submitted my resume several months ago. My requests were well within what the web site said they had to offer. I have well over an M.S. (not quite yet a Ph.D), certified and several years of experience. I have still not heard from any schools or universities with stated vacancies on the web site.

MELEE · Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:48 pm Post subject:

ls650 · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 3484 Location: British Columbia

jenniarriaga · Joined: 15 Mar 2006 Posts: 3

Again, I was trying to lend my personal experience, for a change a positive one as so many of us ESL teachers desire. I know I was tired of getting wrong information from recruiters and I felt this was the best service I have seen and I wanted to post my views but I didn't realize that you need to be in this forum for awhile before you do that. Yes, thank you MELEE, your comments about the salary did support my statement. In the end I think it is best that anyone wondering about the service to PM me and I can tell you the details of my experience, where I am working now etc., maybe perhaps we did something different than the other teacher, maybe not.