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thehairyhorse
Joined: 17 Sep 2004
Posts: 33
Location: Chile
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 Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 1:16 pm Post subject: tefl.com - any point? |
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has anyone actually got a job from this website?
I have personally got a summer school job in the UK and a complete waste of timer in Chile but otherwise its like sending an e mail to a brick wall.
I have tried the complete fabrication of the c.v method and this too does not get far either - just basically a skimming ground for lazy employers?
Any views...... |
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Boy Wonder
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Posts: 453
Location: Clacton on sea
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah..got a nightmare of a summer school job last summer.
Have you noticed it's usually the same 20 schools/institutions looking for people too..esp in KSA and Thailand. |
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ls650
Joined: 10 May 2003
Posts: 3484
Location: British Columbia
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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| I found my first job at a half-decent language school in Indonesia through TEFL.com |
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dmb
Joined: 12 Feb 2003
Posts: 8397
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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| I got a job in the Gulf from it. (a different job Boy Wonder loved so much) |
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denise
Joined: 23 Apr 2003
Posts: 3419
Location: finally home-ish
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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Two of my teaching jobs were advertised on tefl.com. I enjoyed both of them.
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nolefan
Joined: 14 Jan 2004
Posts: 1458
Location: on the run
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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| I have not gotten any results from it as far as China goes. Some of the adds I answered were a load of crap as far as accomodations and location..... useless IMHO if you're already in China |
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badtyndale
Joined: 23 Jun 2004
Posts: 181
Location: In the tool shed
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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Yes
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yes.
A few 'good' employers advertise here but most are incompetent. The "information" provided in advertisements is often misleading, contradictory, or scant. The 'online CV' facility is poorly designed, confusing, and seemingly of no use to potential employers (or at least those with half a brain... or perhaps I should say a quarter).
Anyone know any half decent sites (or perhaps I should say 'one-third')? |
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moonraven
Joined: 24 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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| I have had many offers through tefl.com. I accepted 5. Only one was bad--I left after 3 days--2 were good, and 1 mediocre. The fifth one I backed out of. |
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Stephen Jones
Joined: 21 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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We get about two-tjhirds of our applicants from Tefl.com The onliine resume has too much information, but if it's properly filled in I get all the information I need.
If the jobs are rubbish don't apply for them; goes for any place they have job ads |
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dmb
Joined: 12 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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| We get about two-tjhirds of our applicants from Tefl.com |
I was part of that 2/3. Just out of interest where does the other third come from?
(BTW Stephen did contact me and we spoke on the phone. However I had accepted an offer elsewhere. Even though my mother tried to make me accept Stephen's offer.Why? My mother had spoken to Stephen and "He sounds such a nice man") |
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Teacher in Rome
Joined: 09 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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| My mother had spoken to Stephen and "He sounds such a nice man") |
Maybe you should have taken your mother's advice! We could do with more nice people in TEFL...
(Having a bad day.) |
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