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teflcapie · Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 17

I hope I am in the right forum for posting this. I am busy building a TEFL job search engine, and I would really appreciate some feedback on how effective you find it. Especially if there are some major TEFL job sites that I have omitted. As far as I am aware of, it searches all the major TEFL job sites (including Davescafe of course) world wide, but I am still working on it.

ONLY type in the city where you are looking for a job. Entering the country will also work, but the city works better.

The address is:

http://tefljobs.macrofind.com

I would really appreciate your opinion.

sweeney66 · Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 147 Location: "home"

Job offers from 2006?
No thanks.

teflcapie · Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 17

Of course not. But you must remember its a search engine. Whatever is listed on those sites it will pick up.......

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

I typed in a rather large city in Japan, got only 10 entries (unbelievable), and one of them was for weather in that city. Ahem.

teflcapie · Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 17

Thanks for that input. I have now added eltnews.com and englishjobmaze.com to the search. Both of them have quite a number of TEFL jobs in Japan, and after that got more than 10 pages of job results for Tokyo.

PLEASE NOTE that the results at the top will say 1-10 for Tokyo, but the page numbers are at the bottom - there are actually more than 10 pages with results. The software is not open source, so I can't change that as far as I know.

Don't want to add too many of the small job sites to the listings, because that would increase the chances of getting irrelevant results.

I have tested it with major cities like Bangkok, Seoul etc. and the results sem to be quite relevant so far.

http://tefljobs.macrofind.com

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

Needs more tweaking. I entered a few other major Japanese cities and got places in China and Korea instead.

teflcapie · Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 17

It seems there are not that many TEFL job sites for Japan. Does anyone know of a major TEFL job site in that country that I might have missed? Anyone from the rest of Asia and Europe had a chance to check out the search engine yet?

It searches through all the major TEFL job sites I know of, but I am not pretending to know all of them.

http://tefljobs.macrofind.com

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

Lots of links here
http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic.php?t=66646

teflcapie · Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 17

Are you sure about that link Naturegirl? It takes me to a link about learning Spanish....

Anyone else wants to comment on the TEFL job search engine?

http://tefljobs.macrofind.com

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

Not many? How many do you have for Japan?

teflcapie · Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 17

At the moment I only have eltnews.com and englishjobmaze.com as dedicated job sites for Japan. There are of course others, like the International job board at davescafe.com which also list jobs in Japan. I am not searching the corporates like Berlitz at this stage, since they only take you to a signup page, not a list of jobs. What is your feeling about this, should they rather be included or not?

I have also added a couple of other big TEFL job sites that I have missed before. The idea is to improve the search engine to eventually pick up every TEFL job on the planet that is worthwhile.

http://tefljobs.macrofind.com

teflcapie · Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 17

Will anyone with in depth knowledge of the TEFL market in South America please give his/her comments? It seems this is the area where I can improve the search engine a lot, but finding any job sites for South America is proving to be quite difficult.

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

teflcapie · Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 17

Thanks Naturegirl. Many of them are already searched by the search engine, but I will add the ones that are not. Except the Spanish sites. Right now I want to keep the results in English.

It's a trade-off. In trying to keep the results relevant I sometimes have to leave out certain sites. A good example is i-to-i. I just had to make a judgement call that they don't offer a solution that most TEFL teachers would find useful. I might be wrong, but it looks like a bit of a scam to me.

http://tefljobs.macrofind.com