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frasertyxx · Joined: 17 Feb 2008 Posts: 6

Does anyone know where the best ESL market is in Canada.
I'm in Korea and I'll be finished in a year....I'd like to get jumpstarted in the right Canadian city.

Is there an ESL market in Alberta?

Thanx guys..

chan_konabe · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:33 am Post subject:

Can you define what you mean by "best"? Do you mean:

- the city with the greatest number of ESL students and schools?
- the city with the most ESL teaching positions?
- the city with the best chance of securing year-long, full-time employment?
- the city with the best ratio of available jobs to prospective teachers?
- the city with the highest wage?
- the city with the best wage when compared to the cost of living?

spiral78 · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash

Yes, there's a market in Alberta (or in Calgary, anyway). But unless you have the quals and experience (and connections) to land a uni or college position, the private language schools and chains don't pay a wage that works well with housing costs - which have skyrocketed over the past 3 years or so.

I haven't personally checked the wages at private lang. schools in the past few years, being employed outside Canada, but I think they are around 25 CAD hourly. Housing costs makes it less than a livable wage, I think.