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thehairyhorse · Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 33 Location: Chile

has anyone actually got a job from this website?
I have personally got a summer school job in the UK and a complete waste of timer in Chile but otherwise its like sending an e mail to a brick wall.
I have tried the complete fabrication of the c.v method and this too does not get far either - just basically a skimming ground for lazy employers?
Any views......

Boy Wonder · Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 453 Location: Clacton on sea

Yeah..got a nightmare of a summer school job last summer.

Have you noticed it's usually the same 20 schools/institutions looking for people too..esp in KSA and Thailand.

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

I found my first job at a half-decent language school in Indonesia through TEFL.com

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

I got a job in the Gulf from it. (a different job Boy Wonder loved so much)

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

Two of my teaching jobs were advertised on tefl.com. I enjoyed both of them.

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nolefan · Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 1458 Location: on the run

I have not gotten any results from it as far as China goes. Some of the adds I answered were a load of crap as far as accomodations and location..... useless IMHO if you're already in China

badtyndale · Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 181 Location: In the tool shed

Yes

and

yes.

A few 'good' employers advertise here but most are incompetent. The "information" provided in advertisements is often misleading, contradictory, or scant. The 'online CV' facility is poorly designed, confusing, and seemingly of no use to potential employers (or at least those with half a brain... or perhaps I should say a quarter).

Anyone know any half decent sites (or perhaps I should say 'one-third')?

moonraven · Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 3094

I have had many offers through tefl.com. I accepted 5. Only one was bad--I left after 3 days--2 were good, and 1 mediocre. The fifth one I backed out of.

Stephen Jones · Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 4124

We get about two-tjhirds of our applicants from Tefl.com The onliine resume has too much information, but if it's properly filled in I get all the information I need.

If the jobs are rubbish don't apply for them; goes for any place they have job ads

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Teacher in Rome · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Posts: 1286

Cardinal Synn · Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 586

Yeah me too, 1 job. It was alright I suppose.
I'm looking for a job just now, what a load of lies I seem to have to dig through to get at the truth. Schools which claim to offer so much, but then when I speak to them, the figure has magically downsized itself. An ad on TEFL.com had a school offering a reasonable monthly salary but the email they sent to me in return for my application quoted a salary which had magically been sawn in half. That annoyed me greatly.

ContemporaryDog · Joined: 21 May 2003 Posts: 1477 Location: Wuhan, China

I found my job in China on tefl.com.

Its not too bad a job, but I was first offered a job via there in Beijing that only paid 4500 a month, which is really crap in Beijing.

nomadder · Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2004 2:24 am Post subject:

Found a good job there once but lately have only seen soso jobs. Sign of the market or of that website?

ContemporaryDog · Joined: 21 May 2003 Posts: 1477 Location: Wuhan, China