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[Ruaridh321]

http://www.teflcertificatecourses.com/prague/tefljobs.php

That is the link above ^

Does anyone know anything about this organisation and if it's legit or not?

The only thing that seemed suspicious to me is that it guarantees a job placement if you get a high enough pass in the course.

[Xie Lin]

ITTO is a well-established organization. Their main program is in Guadalajara, Mexico, and is widely accepted. It meets all the standard TEFL course requirements, and, as I recall, well exceeds the usual CELTA supervised teaching practice of 6 hours. Outside of Mexico, they seem to be re-sellers of local courses. In this case they are selling the Edua "TEFL in Prague" course. This is a perfectly legitimate course, but you might as well just deal directly with the course provider.

http://www.teflinprague.com/?gclid=CJ6OmIH1uMcCFUUUHwods6IGPQ

[Ruaridh321]

[spiral78]

The only 'real' job placement is with training centers that run their own schools (or are closely affiliated with schools) which hire their own top trainees. This will also be somewhat dependent upon need in the time period. So this one could be relatively 'legit,' though it does give them an incentive to lower the TEFL course pass grades of some trainees in case they don't have sufficient openings to hire them all in any given time period.

[Ruaridh321]

[spiral78]

January in Prague does offer some opportunities, but as noted elsewhere, it's a smaller and tighter job market then. You might want to send your CV out in early December, even if you haven't finished your TEFL course yet (put expected completion date on it), just so that schools have a clue that you are out there in the city (they won't be interested at all if you're not even in the country).

Wherever on the continent, you should probably expect to have to scramble in January and to take whatever you can find; then you'll be well-placed to be a bit choosier next September, when the school/s know you and you them.