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[Willy_In_Japan]

Has anyone here applied to Boxfish education for an online teaching job?

I'm interested in how your interview and trial lesson went.

Are you teaching for them now?

[LarssonCrew]

Went through it all, them sending me the incorrect application download information etc. and then eventually the woman said 'right, now you will do a one hour demo.'

I wasn't prepared to do so and she got extremely aggressive when I said so.

[jimpellow]

I have worked exclusively online over the last few years, and would highly recommend staying away from Chinese online schools as a rule. The majority are the worst in the field. Think everything bad about working for a Chinese brick-and-mortar school, and then conceptualize it online.

Yes, there are semi exceptions, but better to look outside of the PRC, or make some effort and build your own student base through blabmate and such.

http://www.goodairlanguage.com/teaching-english-online-2/

I actually have a growing online Business English school which was initially intender for the PRC market. I felt there was demand for quality Business English instruction that could be tapped by laser marketing inside the PRC. The problem became that I needed to take on a couple PRC folk to get it done, but got too frustrated with them, crappy weibo etc.

The only legitimate reason I feel why one would want to work for an online PRC school would be due to Internet connectivity issues and the firewalls (yes, there are two). Even then a lot of the PRC schools are actually hosting in countries like the Philippines where they employ Filipinos and pass them off as native speakers.