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Miles Smiles
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| If you have any Business experience (especially managerial level) you can get good private business teaching gigs. Having good qualifications is nice, but if you have experience working for international companies, you can sell that quite well. They trend to be willing to pay more than University students, and are easier to schedule. They will expect a better level of business english though. I have a few friends in Shanghai who are making quite a bit from this niche of students. |
My experience with corporate work is that unless there's a system already in place, the FT will have to:
1). create his own curriculum and materials (which is time-consuming)
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2). Know exactly what the HR representative wants to accomplish and be able to order a book which will facilitate that need. In some cases, the HR rep will have taken some sort of proficiency test herself and can suggest the proper book. If the HR rep hasn't, then you'll have to find out what the local language center recommends. (It'll probably be some sort of Cambridge publication).
My experience with corporate training is that even though you may do an excellent job, and the students like you, their attendance isn't always mandatory, and even when it is, there will be frequent conflicts between students' work place demands and the training. Unless the class is conducted wholly during company time (fat chance) you'll see 100% attendance for one class followed by perhaps 50% attendance (or less) for the next class. If you work in manufacturing, class attendance will be spotty, usually because the factory certification and readiness for inspections will take precedence over your classes. |
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cormac
Joined: 04 Nov 2008
Posts: 768
Location: Xi'an (XTU)
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Miles Smiles wrote: |
| cormac wrote: |
| If you have any Business experience (especially managerial level) you can get good private business teaching gigs. Having good qualifications is nice, but if you have experience working for international companies, you can sell that quite well. They trend to be willing to pay more than University students, and are easier to schedule. They will expect a better level of business english though. I have a few friends in Shanghai who are making quite a bit from this niche of students. |
My experience with corporate work is that unless there's a system already in place, the FT will have to:
1). create his own curriculum and materials (which is time-consuming)
or
2). Know exactly what the HR representative wants to accomplish and be able to order a book which will facilitate that need. In some cases, the HR rep will have taken some sort of proficiency test herself and can suggest the proper book. If the HR rep hasn't, then you'll have to find out what the local language center recommends. (It'll probably be some sort of Cambridge publication).
My experience with corporate training is that even though you may do an excellent job, and the students like you, their attendance isn't always mandatory, and even when it is, there will be frequent conflicts between students' work place demands and the training. Unless the class is conducted wholly during company time (fat chance) you'll see 100% attendance for one class followed by perhaps 50% attendance (or less) for the next class. If you work in manufacturing, class attendance will be spotty, usually because the factory certification and readiness for inspections will take precedence over your classes. |
I'm not talking about corporate training. There are too many established companies already taking big chunks out of that pie. Besides, most managers would acknowledge that very few people actually learn much from them.... So, I'm talking about Direct private one-to-one students. They will pay decent money for a good professional teaching experience. |
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