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Teaching in China: As Great as it Sounds?
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I’m a Canadian expat who’s been teaching ESL in the Czech Republic for nearly ten years.
Most of the private language schools here will try to get you to take out a business license so that they don’t have to be responsible for your social and health insurance. They make it sound like a really good deal for you, but you have to be careful because it only really works well if you’re making enough to cover the social and health insurance.
If you’re in the country long term, say two or three years, then a business license will certainly make it easier for you to work for multiple employers and work the number of hours you need to make ends meet.
I live and work in Brno, the country’s second largest city, and find it reasonably easy to find enough work to make ends meet. I have met several people who worked in Prague and most told me the teaching market there was over saturated and they had to work like hell to get enough hours and pay.
Definitely you will not get a teaching job in the Czech Republic without coming here in person. Standard hiring practice is an in person interview and short demo lesson, no decent school will hire you without the demo lesson.
Not to toot my own horn too much, but if the Czech Republic is a potentially interesting destination for some readers here, even if only for holidays, I do write a blog about the country:
http://beyondprague.wordpress.com/
Definitely sounds like an interesting experience! Would you be interested in taking part in a short interview with me about your EFL experience? If so drop me an e-mail at hayley@lifeasabutterfly.com
Hi Hayley:
I’d be happy to talk with you about it. I’m on holidays for the next week, but I’ll drop you an email when I get back and we’ll arrange something.
Brilliant, thanks! Have a great holiday!
I worked in a Ski Resort in France and had the most incredible 8 months of my life! I would highly recommend it to anyone on a gap year pre- or post- university, the work is hard and can be gruelling especially on guest transfer day, but the time off, free lift pass and slope time more than compensate for that! I was managing 5 chalets and 10 ‘chalet girls’ (and boys) and found that organisation was totally key to maximising time away from the guests and chalets and hitting the pistes. After the first 3 or 4 weeks everything becomes more routine and you get to know the locals, going out for drinks in the bars and generally just having a really fun and for me carefree time! The resort I worked at required that I speak French and a little Italian as it was a smaller, more local resort, but there are so many resorts in France, Switzerland and even Austria that don’t require any foreign language skills at all – so don’t let that put you off 🙂
Brilliant! Bethany would you be interested in taking part in a short interviewq for me about your experiences as a chalet host? I’m sure my readers would love to hear all about it!! If so drop me a quick e-mail at hayley@lifeasabutterfly.com