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[pietto]

After a successful career as a corporate trainer in IT, I want to start a second career as an EFL teacher. I have BS and MS in IT and have 6 years experience as a corporate trainer as well as 3 year experience teaching secondary school. After reading the forums this is what I have been able to understand what without a CELTA it is possible to land a job, but CELTA will definitely put you in the short stack of CVs.
Since I don�t have 2-3 years of ESL teaching I figured Colombia would be a good place to get the needed ESL experience to move on to better positions in other countries. Here are my questions?
Is it necessary to speak Spanish to land any of English teaching positions?
Am I correct in my assumption that Colombia is good place to get the needed experience?
I haven�t seen as references to university positions, do they use recruiters or is it direct apply
thanks
pietto

[spanglish]

Actually I think it's the opposite - you would do better off to start in a higher paying Asian country and then come to Latin America to work at a university or the British Council.