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Qaaolchoura · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 2:25 pm Post subject: TEFL.com InstApply

Is the InstApply feature on TEFL.com a good idea? None of these employers list their email address so far as I can tell, but it might be a feature of TEFL.com. I'm bothered that it doesn't seem to allow me to write my own cover letter.

The alternative is going to these company's websites, finding their email address, and contacting them directly. This seems like a better idea, but it could potentially annoy companies if the lack of an email address on TEFL.com is their own choice, rather than simply a side effect of posting there. Also, a number of these companies have websites only in their native languages, so it might seem weird in these cases to contact them directly if I have to run their sites through Google translate to do so.

Thanks,
~Q

PS: Please don't kill me if this has been asked. Its seems like a really obvious question, but I searched for both TEFL.com and InstApply without finding anything that addressed the topic.

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

basiltherat · Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 952

hi
unless things have changed, you can write your own cover letter. it's at the end of your registration process. you get an option of writing your own or having a sekelton letter which you can complete.
best
basil

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

Qaaolchoura · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 2:23 pm Post subject:

Thanks for your feedback guys.
I'd assumed that InstApply was like one-click shopping on Amazon, but yes, it turns out I can write a cover letter. Of course there's still some frustrating things about TEFL.com (like if the employer wants a photo, an avatar-sized image is probably insufficient) which make it seem better to find the employer's email and contact them directly. But I've been using it for employers who only ask for a resume and cover letter at TEFL.com.

~Q

Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 3:42 pm Post subject:

TELF.scum InstApply is useless unless it can make you InstBritish or InstEuropassportholder as well... Rolling Eyes

Protectionist, much???

NCTBA

Sashadroogie · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 6:55 pm Post subject:

Wha ha haaa haaa! All part of the plot to protect Fortress Europe and keep all you non-EU passport holders out. Wha ha haa haaa haa!

johnslat · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:05 pm Post subject:

Dear Sasha,

Remember what happened to "Festung Europa."

Keep bangin' on the wall
Keep bangin' on the wall
OF FORTRESS EUROPE!

2022 -A new European order
Robot guards patrolling the border
Cybernetic dogs are getting closer and closer
Armoured cars and immigration officers
A burning village in Kosovo
You bombed it out now you're telling us go home
Machine guns strut on the cliffs of Dover
Heads down people look out! we're going over
Burnin up! can we survive re-entry
Past the mines and the cybernetic sentries
Safe european homes built on wars
You don't like the effect don't produce the cause
The chip is in your head not on my shoulder
Total control just around the corner
Open up the floodgates Time's nearly up
Keep banging on the wall of Fortress Europe

Keep banging
Keep banging on the wall of Fortress Europe
We got a right , know the situation
We're the children of globalisation
No borders only true connection
Light the fuse of the insurrection
This generation has no nation
Grass roots pressure the only solution
We're sitting tight
Cos assylum is a right
Put an end to this confusion
Dis is a 21st century Exodus
Dis is a 21st century Exodus

Burnin' up can we survive re-entry
Past the landmines and cybernetic sentries
Plane, train, car , ferry boat or bus
The future is bleeding coming back at us
The chip is in your head not on my shoulder
Total control around the corner
Open up the floodgates Time's nearly up
Keep banging on the wall of Fortress Europe

Keep banging
Keep banging on the wall of Fortress Europe
This is a 21st century Exodus
This is a 21st century Exodus

They got a right - listen not to the scaremonger
Who doesn't run when they're feel the hunger
From where to what to when to here to there
People caught up in red tape nightmare
Break out of the detention centres
Cut the wires and tear up the vouchers
People get ready it's time to wake up
Tear down the walls of Fortress Europe

Regards,
John

Sashadroogie · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:07 pm Post subject:

Dear Johnslat

Sounds like paradise! Might need a touch more barbed-wire. Then it would remind me more of home... sigh.

S

Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 8:50 pm Post subject:

Sashadroogie · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 9:48 pm Post subject:

Hic! This is the second time in a row that I've read a post here that makes no sense to me? What's going on with the quality of stuff I'm drinking? Could this be the DTs setting in? Hic! I don't like this one bit. Have all our other posts actually been as mad as these last few? Man, just what are you saying to me?