Trying To Land A Great TEFL Job?

November 15, 2008 by Louis
Filed under: Employment Resources, TEFL Advice

If you are trying to land a great TEFL job, then take a look at our job listings. We have some great TEFL jobs just waiting to employ you. One of the biggest factors in a finding a great job is getting the initial job lead. You’ll want to check it against the ratings that I have spent a few years working on. There are many school listed here and some of them have very indepth comments on actual working conditions.

After you have found a great TEFL job listing, it’s very important to follow up on that job lead by putting your best foot forward. I came across a post on ELT Times that has some great advice on putting your best foot forward and landing a great TEFL job. It’s titled 10 Tips you Must Use to Get your International Teacher Application Emails Read.

There are several great tips there, but this is my personal favorite:

1. Use a meaningful subject line.
I suggest you include the specific teaching position you are applying for and your name. By using this style of subject line you are immediately identifying it as an email from an applicant and the recruiter will expect to see a teacher application when they open the email. Also, this will make it easier for the recruiter to find your email in their inbox should they need to refer to it again.

One tip that I would add to the article is that you want to have a professional sounding email address. If you aren’t going with your own teaching portfolio domain as I have suggested elsewhere, make sure you use an email account that doesn’t bring up stereotypes or say something about your character you don’t want known.

Another thing: Don’t use an email address associated with a Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, etc page that you don’t want your potential employers to see. It’s very easy for someone to go to one of these sites, put in your email address and pull up that picture of you getting drunk.

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