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hewlett77 · Joined: 17 Dec 2009 Posts: 95 Location: all over China

I'm thinking of heading to xiamen to see if i can find work there. Any sugestions, or feedback regards to this city. I don't have a degree but have my Tesol.

Daniel.

flyingscotsman · Joined: 24 Mar 2010 Posts: 339 Location: Suzhou, China

Been there a bunch of times. Nice place.

Work scene is so-so. Hook yourself up before making a commitment. Some colleges on the outskirts, and training schools. But seems not an overabundance of available jobs.

If you are set on going there drop me a pm and I can hook you up with an American friend of mine who's been there off and on for 4 or so years and runs a school and corporate training center.

teacher12344 · Joined: 08 Apr 2011 Posts: 9 Location: UK

My Brother and I would like to work in Xiamen. Does anyone know of any schools there I can contact as I keep getting agencies offering to get me a job. I would rather go through the geniune schools.

time to teach · Joined: 03 Feb 2011 Posts: 73 Location: Bangkok

I lived there for six months, taught at XMU, moonlit at Meten.

Also had one corporate job there, 200RMB per class.

You can find direct jobs on the Internet, just have to look around.

Part-time pay at both Web and Meten is 100RMB per class.

EF is there too, and Kings International, both do adults and kids. Plenty of kindy and kiddie gigs, pay range 100-150RMB per class.

It's a beautiful place to live, small city vibe with a beautiful coastline and clean beaches, great for biking and sightseeing but the water is polluted and not suitable for cooling off, swimming, etc.

I swam in the sea twice (Pearl Beach) and gave up for the XMU pool.

My wife and I had a 9th floor apartment, pretty view of Piano Island, for 2K/month. Overall quite a nice place to live but not so good for making and saving money.

hewlett77 · Joined: 17 Dec 2009 Posts: 95 Location: all over China

well if I don't go, I won't know. I dont have a lot of money now, my ex in shenzhen cleaned me up. If i go it will be Tuesday or Wednesday this week. I'm working round the clock seeing if I can at least find and secure some sort of job there before I leave here, but not having much luck. Plus the fact got to deal witht he visa issue. No degree, but tesol and on a F visa as I said before which only allows me to stay in china 2 months at a time.

petebeatstreet · Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 4:00 pm Post subject:

Here's a link to Xiamen's foreigner site:

www.whatsonxiamen.com

And a job on the go right now:

http://www.whatsonxiamen.com/jobs_show.php?id=2121

A lot of us are clearing out of Xiamen Uni at the end of the semester. Send me a PM if you're keen..

Laxmatt · Joined: 05 Apr 2011 Posts: 27 Location: USA

wiganer · Joined: 22 Sep 2010 Posts: 189

MisterButtkins · Joined: 03 Oct 2009 Posts: 1221

Xiamen has to be one of the most popular cities in China for people to work in besides Beijing and Shanghai. It's not that big of a city either.