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fluff · Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 32

Hey!

Can anybody give me some advice on the best way to apply for teaching posts in China. I've seen a lot of positions advertised on the net but surely it's better to apply in person to check out the school. If your looking for work in country how do your source the jobs? How long, on average, would you have to job hunt for? Which are the best/easiest to find places to start? I'm not bothered about being a bit rural(well, somewhere with a town) and I'm not adverse to cities either.

All practical advice would be very much appreciated.

Roger · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 9138

You haven't said enough about yourself so advice can hardly be tailor-made for your needs.

fluff · Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 32

Roger,

Check your private messages.

tradinup · Joined: 13 Nov 2004 Posts: 132 Location: Shenzhen, China

Why private message?

Just lay it out on the line, I'm sure you will have good company:

"Well I'm 18 and I just graduated high school, well I almost graduated but this one teacher would really hard-mark me, so that fell through. I don't have any teaching experience to speak of, but I sometimes will teach my little brother things, and I am a hard-worker. I'm not really that good at that English stuff but I'm white and I heard they like that stuff in China. I'm willing to learn... Ok... the truth is I really just want to get sloshed every nite but it's to expensive to do in Canada/USA. Can you give me a job???"

Sorry, I'm a jerk... and just joking Smile

Jolly · Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 202

tradinup · Joined: 13 Nov 2004 Posts: 132 Location: Shenzhen, China

No, you can get a work visa in China of course. You come there with a two or three month tourist visa and look for a job. Just because you have a tourist visa doesn't mean you have to be taking pictures of the Great Wall, you can be meeting with employers and finding a job.

That said I worked for two months on my visitor visa then got a work Visa... in China.

tom selleck · Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 2:09 pm Post subject:

Or buy your own business visa, and start your holiday in Hong Kong.

fluff · Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 32

Yeah, I've got a ticket to Hong Kong already. Do you know if you can still buy the business visas in star Travel, in Chungking? How much are they?

Can I have your autograph?

Roger · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 9138

Ah, Fluff; you do know the region! Thanks for the PM, by the way.

Star Travel still is there, as far as I know (I saw their sign somewhere on the ground floor in Chungking Mansions recently), but I don't know whether they compare well with other visa intermediaries.

My advice is: Visas can be bought at the following intermediaries:
- Apt, 8-10 Hankow Rd., (that's just 5 minutes on foot from Chungking);
This outfit was able to sell one-year tourist visas for around HK$ 1000 3 years ago.

- Phoenix Travel, 86 Nathan Rd., 7th floor;
that's just 600 meters north along Nathan Rd., same side (east);
when you see an OPAL sign, that's the building in which it is.
My business visa there used to cost HK$ 750 for 6 months;

- Japan Travel Ltd., somewhere in Canarvon Rd., right behind Chungking and Phoenix. You will find their advert in the South China Morning Post.

In your case, it might be possible to get a 30month or 6-month visa direct from the China Visa Section of the PRC government in Wanchai, 18 Harbour Rd. They certainly are the cheapest - approx. 300, I would guess; however, they take a very hard and long look at you and your passport, and they grant your visa themselves. The intermediaries get your visa across the border in Shenzhen... So you will have to trust them to get it to the Shenzhen PSB and bring it back. At Phoenxis they can do that in one day.

fluff · Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 32

Cheers Roger, you are a fountain of knowledge.

Talkdoc · Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 696