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[robertokun]

I'm a K-12 certified teacher and M.A. TESOL holder with several years experience teaching ESL/EFL in the States and abroad. I've been searching for resources to help me find a good position at a university or international school for my next job and came across TIE. Is anyone on here familiar with it? And if so, would you recommend it? I don't care about the $39 bucks for an e-subscription, but I don't want to waste my time either if it's not really that good of a resource. I'm slightly suspicious that some websites try to distinguish themselves these days as "subscribers only" with pay content to appear more prestigious or professional than they really are... Anyways, what do you think?

[nomad soul]

Save your money. Try Teachaway for international and vocational school jobs. For higher education, there's TESOL.org's career center, chronicle.com, and higheredjobs.com. If you're adventurous, look into the EL Fellow Program.

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[Big Worm]

If you are certified, yes. Also joyjobs.com. Many (most) international schools don't advertise on free websites cuz they don't want to deal with thousands of unqualified yahoos "testing the waters, just in case". Paying a bit shows you are serious about your job search. Same goes with int'l teaching job fairs. Requiring applicants to put a little time money and effort weeds out a lot of people for employers. Also, if you are a yahoo, you probably won't even know about those sites.


It's really not that much money. Would you pay a hundred bucks to land your dream job? How much have you put in already in terms of degrees, etc.

Do your due diligence tho. There will undoubtedly be some scam paysites.

[robertokun]

@Big Worm, yeah I hear you. Like I said, I don't care about the 39 bucks, it's nothing. It's more of not wanting to waste time with potential scam pay sites, like you said.

I like the suggestions all around. I have hit some of those (Chronicle, TESOL, etc...) already as they are the mainstays. Maybe I'll take the plunge and check a few of the paysites being mentioned.

My other issue, which I didn't mention, is that I'm focused on Colombia, which doesn't seem to bode well for the search. We'll see what I can do...

Thanks

[timothypfox]

nomad soul, isn't teachaway kind of like a placement agency? don't they pay less than applying directly to a school such as doing so through tieonline? Please correct me if I'm wrong here.

tieonline actually has a pretty good listing of jobs and is not very expensive. it's actually a good way around spending huge amounts of money going to recruiting fairs. Many tieonline jobs that I've looked at over the past year allow you to interview via skype, and sending all materials - video of you teaching etc... via email.

if you are still "iffy" about it and you are going the international school route, a good site to register for (for free) is international school review. that way you can protect your *ss and make sure you are going to work for a decent organization...

[Big Worm]

One more thing: Just subscribe to one. The sites are free to schools, so they put their ads in several. If you join more than one, you will see the same ads.

[nomad soul]

[nomad soul]

[robertokun]

Mostly Uni/Adults and I prefer that audience, but the pay and benefits at internationals is hard to beat in Latin America. Thanks tpfox for the tip about ISR. I'll look into it.

[timothypfox]

Just a follow-up.

I had a quick look at the Teachaway website, and they do indeed have several overseas listings you can view for free. Tieonline, however, Tieonline seems to have SE Asian countries covered a little better than Teachaway in terms of the number of different countries listed such as Japan.

Also, don't forget to sign up (for free) on the International School Review website namely to find places "blacklisted" international schools, and one's that teachers have had good experiences with.

[nomad soul]

[AbeCross]

I used to subscribe to the TIE. It was not worth the money. I think many of the jobs really did not exist.