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Really Practical Tips on Tutoring English

I just read a good blog post about freelancing as a programmer over at: http://typicalprogrammer.com/tips-for-successful-freelancing and I noticed almost everything he says there can be adapted and applied to working as an English tutor or a freelance teacher.

What you see in the following is how I would adapt his post to apply to freelancing and personal tutoring:

Do what you know how to do
Clients pay you to solve their problems. They aren't interested in how cool a particular teaching style is, but knowing when and where to apply different methods or approaches to particular learner needs will definitely help you as a tutor. You don't need to be able to teach everyone either. Find something you are good at (and like, if possible) and teach that. It might be that teaching children phonics and singing songs is just what you love to do. Personally I prefer teaching an older and more professional age group.

Stay with the herd
If you have an exotic in-demand skill by all means use it. But if you decide to learn Montessori because you see Montessori tutors making top dollar, think hard about how you will compete with them. Sure, there are lots of English teachers out there, but most of them are amateurs you can easily compete with, and there’s more than enough English teaching work to go around. If you look in the right markets. Obviously, it’s much harder to compete with skilled and experienced experts for a small number of jobs (that's why the university positions in Korea are getting harder and harder to get these days.. unlike a few years ago, but that's another story). You want to do what everyone else is making money at, but better, so you’re playing basketball against a team of sixth graders, not trying to join the NBA.

Don’t try to do everything
Be careful you don’t get buried doing too much, like homework support, software recommendations, curriculum design, etc. Stick with your competencies. Find other tutors who specialize in the things you don’t do and send them business, and they will do the same for you.

Avoid bad clients
If the student seems angry, bossy, stingy, greedy, abusive, too demanding, too controlling, etc. step away. You will find other clients. If you can’t imagine a professional and rewarding relationship with your client, or if you feel uncomfortable with whatever it is they are doing, say no.

You will get most business from referrals
Do a good job, leave your clients happy, work with other teachers and develop a network of people who will recommend you and send work your way.

Don’t bother trying to look like a “real” business
Plenty of new tutors think that they are entrepreneurs and they can get caught up accumulating the trappings of a big company. You don’t need a fancy web site, letterhead, office, etc. You probably don’t even need to form a corporation or LLC. Unless you have employees or manage to bill for 72 hours every day you won’t make enough money to justify anything elaborate or supposedly “professional.” Your clients won’t care that you work from home and don’t have all the trappings. A simple blog will work and maybe a few business cards. That's it.

Keep track of your time and bill regularly
The best way to get paid is to keep track of your time accurately and bill your clients regularly. I prefer to work hourly and send invoices every four weeks. You don’t need a full-blown accounting system, there are hosted time tracking and invoicing solutions like BlinkSale that do most of the work for you.

Don’t subcontract
I recommend working with other teachers, but I don’t like subcontracting work out. Chances are you will spend almost as much time explaining the project and reviewing the work as you would spend doing it yourself. Any teacher as good as you will cost as much anyway; if you think you are getting a bargain with a $15/hour teacher you found online good luck with that. If you take on more work than you can handle try referring it to another tutor who will return the favor.

Use consistent feedback and development techniques
Clients like to see progress. Misunderstanding requirements is the most costly mistake you will make. Short-term deliverable goals and frequent reviews will keep your student happy and keep you from going off in the weeds. Just tell them how you do things and what you need from them.

Keep your clients informed
Learning a new language is mysterious enough to most people, so let your students keep your work and make your materials visible to parents so clients feel comfortable with you.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. - Aristotle at BrainyQuote

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. - Aristotle at BrainyQuote

List of journals to send your ESL papers to be published

As you progress in your ESL career you should think about doing a higher qualification like an MA TESOL or a DELTA. Publishing is another way to gain more credit in this field too.

List of journals that you can submit your ESL papers:

http://eltj.oxfordjournals.org/

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=LTA

http://pops.uclan.ac.uk/index.php/jsltr/index

http://ltr.sagepub.com/

http://jfl.iaun.ac.ir/

http://www.koreatesol.org/content/publication-submissions

http://tea.iatefl.org/

http://www.beds.ac.uk/jpd

http://www.academypublisher.com/jltr/

http://asian-efl-journal.com/submissions/

SEO tips for newbies (like me)

SEO tips for newbies (like me)

SEO Copywriting usually optimizes other on-page elements for the targeted search terms. These include the Title, Description and Keywords tags, headings and alt text.

The idea behind SEO Copywriting is that search engines want genuine content pages and not additional pages (often called "doorway pages") that are created for the sole purpose of achieving high rankings. Therefore, the engines cannot possibly view SEO copywritten pages as undesirable, and the rankings they achieve tend to be as stable as those that are achieved by other search engine optimization techniques.

Practitioners of the search engine copywriting method recommend around 250 viewable words per page, with one, or at most two, targeted search terms strategically placed within the text and other on-page elements.

SEO Copywriting strengths
One thing that can be said about search engine optimization copywriting is that works for suitable websites and for suitable search terms. SEO Copywriting can achieve rankings that tend to do well across the search engines, although no page can do equally well in all engines.

It is sometimes said by practioners of search engine optimization copywriting, that the method tends to maintain its rankings as the engines tweak and change their algorithms, whereas other methods produce less stable rankings. This can't be true. If 2 pages are in the top 10 search results; one getting there by the SEO copywriting method and the other by different search engine optimization techniques, they are both there because they match the engine's criteria (algorithm) quite well. When the criteria is changed, the match that each of them had is necessarily changed. The matches could become closer to, or further from, the engine's criteria. Whether each page goes up or down in the results depends on what changes have been made to the engine's criteria. It is a matter of chance, and not a matter of whether SEO copywriting was used or not.

SEO Copywriting weaknesses
# Competitive search terms
The technique only works for search terms that are not particularly competitive. Competitive search terms are those where many people are trying very hard to gain the top rankings for their sites. Casino, sex, insurance, health and hotels sites are among the most competitive, and there are many other topics where people fight for rankings. For medium to highly competitive search terms, other, more vigorous, methods are needed.

# Suitable sites
Not all websites are suitable for SEO Copywriting. Many simply don't have sufficient text on their pages, and adding text would spoil the design or nature of the sites. Also, some sites that do have sufficient text sometimes don't want to be forced into changing what is written on the pages, just for the sake of the search engines.

# Cost, and the limitation of targeted search terms
SEO Copywriting is a time-consuming process, and professional SEO copywriters are not cheap, therefore the cost of each page is significant. Since each page can target only one or two search terms, it would usually require a good number of pages to be made-over in order to target all the required search terms.

# Tied to a copywriter
What happens when a website owner finds it necessary to alter the text on a page that has been worked on by a professional SEO copywriter? It can't be done without either ruining the costly SEO work and, with it, the page's rankings, or re-hiring a professional copywriter to redo the work once the changes have been made.

# Slipping in the rankings
If a page is successfully optimized by SEO Copywriting, and is ranked in the top 10 search results for its targeted search term, then the optimization was worth the cost. But what happens when someone else decides to optimize a page from a different website for the same search term? If their optimization technique is successful, and the page gets into the top 10, the #10 page will slip to #11 - and off the first page of results. Then suppose another website does the same thing...and another...and another. Sooner or later, the successful page will slip from the first page of search results. As soon as people decide to optimize their pages for the chosen search terms, existing top 10 pages are on the way down. Then what?

If the sliding pages were professionally SEO copywritten, there is nothing else that the technique can do for them, or if it can, the whole costly copywriting process must be redone. Adding one or two instances of the target search terms isn't merely a case of typing them in somewhere, because the final text still needs to read well for the site visitors. Again, the website owner is tied to a copywriter.


Summary
SEO Copywriting is good when:

* there are not many search terms to target
* the search terms are on the low to middle end of competitiveness
* money isn't a problem, or if it is your own website
* you don't mind the text on your pages being frozen (if money does matter)

Otherwise, 'search engine friendly' techniques should always be done as a first measure, and real search engine optimization should be done for the search terms for which 'search engine friendly' techniques are unsuccessful.

Every blogger, no matter the topic or type of blog, is looking for an edge to gain more traffic. How can you get more traffic to your blog? There are many ways, but one of the most successful is through the use of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). You’ve heard of the term, but might not have taken the time to become an expert.

The truth is that SEO is one of the top tools for better traffic, mainly because it is based on a (somewhat) scientific method. If you can get better at SEO, you can increase traffic to your blog. And one way to get better at SEO is to use the free Keyword Tool from Google AdWords.

What is Google AdWords and why does it matter for a blogger?

Adwords is an online advertising platform created by Google that matches key search terms with paid-for ads. Basically, AdWords is a program that allows you to buy text-based ads for certain search phrases that people use when performing a search. This post isn’t about buying search traffic, though. You don’t want to pay for traffic that you could get for free, right? This post is about using the power of the Google AdWords program to write better blog posts that perform better in search.

How do Keywords work?

Every time someone performs a search, the text on your website comes into play. Google’s job is to connect those who are performing a search with the content that they want. This means that if your website uses certain terms that Google’s visitors are looking for, Google will become more likeley to match that visitor with your website. This is why a big part of good SEO is built on the use of important keywords and phrases.

Because the Google AdWords program is built on keywords, Google has tons of data on which keywords are the most popular for each industry and website. So, how can you use it to improve the SEO on your blog? It’s as easy as following these simple steps.

Step 1 – Get An AdWords Account

The first thing you need to do is to make sure you have a Google AdWords account. You can use your current Google or Gmail account to do this by simple navigating to https://adwords.google.com. This is the easy part.

Step 2 – Find the Right Keywords

Once you have created your account and logged in, you will need to find the Keyword Tool. This is the tool that you will use to find important keywords surrounding your blog or business.
Step 3 – Enter The Keywords That You Would Like to Know More About

After reaching the keyword tool, you will need to type in a few terms that you would like to know more about. The terms you search for should surround your industry. For the purposes of this blog post, we used the internet marketing category. To start, I entered a few important terms surrounding this topic.

These are not necessarily the best example of keyword terms. They are very broad, and when selecting keywords it is better to be as specific as you can. Luckily, the Keyword Tool can help us narrow down our topics as we go by suggesting alternate terms that could work a little better.

Let Google suggest better terms for the best results.

As you begin browsing through the list of suggested terms, begin selecting the terms that you think could help your blogging efforts. Ask yourself, which of these terms could I easily work into my article headlines or blog posts? As you check each keyword, they will automatically be added to a “Saved ideas” list that will come into play later.


Step 4 – Understand How To Select The Best Keywords

It is important to remember that not all keywords are created equal. Some are better than others. In the listing of each keyword, you will see three key metrics that can help us determine the value of each word.
Competition – This metric will give us an idea of how popular a keyword term is. Now, this doesn’t mean how many people search for it, it really means how many people purchase the keyword. Remember, most people use this tool for buying ads, not writing blog posts. For the blogger, this metric isn’t the most important, but there is something that we can learn. Keywords with a ranking of “High” competition could potentially be harder for us to compete against because they are more sought out by buyers.
Global Monthly Searches – This will tell you how many times the keyword or phrase has been searched for , globally, in the last month. Now we’re getting somewhere. The more popular the term, the larger the number. However, bigger isn’t always better here. In the chart above, the terms with the lowest numbers might actually be the easiest to target. Remember, the more popular the term, the more competition you will have.
Local Monthly Searches – The third data column will tell you how many people are searching for a suggested keyword on a more local level. This is generally by country. Similar to Global Monthly Searches, this metric will give you a more local flavor on search terms.

Step 5 – Downloading Your Keyword List

Once you have run through steps 3 and 4 a few times, you should have compiled a list of several hundred keywords in your “Saved ideas” list. You will be able to download this list as an Excel file for easy reference. To do this, just click “Download” and choose “My keyword ideas” from the drop down menu.

Step 6 – Put Your Keywords Into Practice

Once you have compiled a list of great keywords, you will need to put them into practice. This means you need to actually incorporate them into your blog posts. I like to open the spreadsheet and a blank text document side-by-side when I write new headline ideas for blog posts. This is great, because writing powerful SEO-driven headlines is really important for successful blogging. As I write headlines, I attempt to incorporate as many keyword phrases that I can.

For example, using the keywords above you might generate headlines like:

What Is SEO? A Companion Guide To An Important Internet Marketing Technique.
Internet Marketing Strategies That Even Your Boss Can Understand
Why Online Marketing Strategies That Bring Business Online Elude Most Companies

Don’t stop there. Use your important keywords as you write your post and as you write sub-headlines within your post. The more you use them (in a natural way) the better. You don’t want to get too aggressive, of course, but sprinkling them throughout your post is great SEO

Copywriting job-sites:

https://www.writersdomain.net/
https://www.textbroker.com/

http://www.iwriter.com/

Follow up guide from MOZ: http://moz.com/blog/10-super-easy-seo-copywriting-tips-for-link-building

And more from copyblogger: http://www.copyblogger.com/seo-copywriting/

Why I Love iHerb when living in Korea .. and why you should too

I have to be honest, iHerb is a great place to get your vitamin supplies in Korea. There is a discount when you use the code: MLW162 for the first time! Here are the supplements I always repeat order from iHerb.

Charcoal is great for detoxing your body

http://www.iherb.com/Nature-s-Way-Charcoal-Activated-280-mg-100-Capsules/1846?rcode=MLW162

 

This is a great multi-vitamin

http://www.iherb.com/Nature-s-Way-System-Well-Ultimate-Immunity-180-Tablets/2081?rcode=MLW162

Aztec healing clay is great for a face mask

http://www.iherb.com/Aztec-Secret-Indian-Healing-Clay-1-lb-454-g/29363?rcode=MLW162

Magnesium is an essential part of every diet

http://www.iherb.com/Now-Foods-Magnesium-Caps-400-mg-180-Capsules/662?rcode=MLW162

These are great for men

http://www.iherb.com/Twinlab-L-Arginine-L-Ornithine-100-Capsules/2323?rcode=MLW162

Great for your circulation

http://www.iherb.com/Now-Foods-Celery-Circulation-60-Vcaps/12040?rcode=MLW162

Good for blood pressure

http://www.iherb.com/Natural-Factors-PeptACE-Fish-Peptides-500-mg-90-Capsules/2639?rcode=MLW162

Great for your heart

http://www.iherb.com/Now-Foods-Omega-3-Cardiovascular-Support-200-Softgels/323?rcode=MLW162

List of the best free lesson plans and teaching resources

As an English teacher I feel that one of the most time consuming and repetitive aspects of the job is lesson preparation. Thankfully, I have found some excellent resources in my time as an ESL teacher and I'm happy to share them here with you.

List of the best free lesson plans and teaching resources:

http://www.englishforeveryone.org/

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/mini_lessons.html

http://www.freeeslmaterials.com/sean_banville_lessons.html

http://www.macmillanstraightforward.com/resources/worksheets/

http://www.insideout.net/elessons/archive/page/3

http://www.macmillanglobal.com/elessons/archive

http://www.macmillaninspiration.com/original/resources/grammar

http://www.chompchomp.com/terms.htm

http://scottthornbury.wordpress.com/index/

http://www.havefunteaching.com/worksheets

http://www.newtongue.com/lyrics-worksheets/

http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/puzzles

http://en.islcollective.com/

http://www.hellokids.com/

http://dreamreader.net/

http://www.teachitelt.com/

http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/reading-owl/find-a-book/library-page

http://cdextras.cambridge.org/Readers/RPT_last.swf

http://businessballs.com/businessballs-index.htm

https://vk.com/englishlibrary

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/gradschool/training/eresources

I use these websites and resources alongside my own sheets and materials most days of the week. I'm always interested in learning more and having access to more resources so please feel free to link other great teaching resources in the comments below.

Travel around Korea in under 3 Weeks for $1000

A no-nonsense guide on seeing Korea in three weeks for $1000

The national flag of South Korea

This guide is aimed at the shoe-string traveler; the backpacker; the online 'entrepreneur' scraping by while seeing the world; the couple on a break from their ESL job somewhere; or just those who are nearby in other parts of Asia and fancy a quick low cost airline flight to see what all the fuss is about... 

Don't let the small budget make you think that you can't see and do a WHOLE lot while you're here... 

I'm going to show you exactly how to do everything worth doing and on a budget of around $50 a day. A budget which includes eating, sleeping and travelling. Everything. Sit back, kick-back, relax. Your questions will be answered. Ambitious? Perhaps, but certainly possible.

KTX bullet train

The first thing you need to know is how to get around once you are here. I would recommend traveling how the locals travel. In the city you should take the bus and use the subway whenever possible. As it costs around one dollar per journey you can abuse this form of transport relentlessly and have no worry about your budget. Additionally, you can switch from the bus to the subway and from the subway to the bus as long as its within a 30 minute time window. Taxis are also reasonably cheap, but... taxis are a last option because you want to use your money wisely! That said, taxis are still a good bet in comparison with the UK, USA, Australia or other developed western countries. Travel from city to city is also easy and affordable. You can use the bus or take the train. Each city has at least one bus terminal and train station. The bigger the city the more bus terminals and train stations you can find. Trains are especially cheap if you take the slower trains (which incidentally are the same speed as normal trains in the UK) and it's still reasonable in price if you take the KTX (bullet train). Seoul to Daejeon, for example, is around $20 on the KTX, and even cheaper if you take one of the slower trains.

Seoul subway ride

Between bus terminals, subway stations, trains and taxis you have all of your travel covered. Estimate to spend no more than $210 on travel during your stay in Korea and you will be fine. This may sound low but if you only use the cheaper buses and trains for city to city travel every couple of days and then only stick to using the subway system within the cities it is certainly possible.






The next essential part that you need to know about is where to sleep. This can burn money in every travelers pocket, but luckily the best money saving tip for you is to sleep in a jim-jil-bang!

What is a jim-jil-bang? I hear you ask. Well, it's basically a spa and sauna place with areas to relax (and sleep!). Every city has several of these places and they are usually no more than 9,000 won (roughly $9) for up to 24 hours of use. They offer a locker for your things (an average sized backpack would fit) so you can relax and feel safe in the knowledge your worldly travel possessions are fine.

Jim-jil-bang sleeping capsule

One caveat; the spa areas are separated and nudity is kind of the social norm! So expect to be naked in the changing areas but, don't worry, not a soul will care as they've seen it all before.

There is also a larger shared area that both genders can visit. Here there are a number of saunas, hot rooms, cool rooms and cold rooms. Usually there is a restaurant, a small shop, some singing rooms, a gym, some massage chairs, and (most importantly) some sleeping areas.

The sleeping areas are what you should especially take advantage of! 

So for around $9 a day you can sleep, wash, relax and feel refreshed in every city all throughout Korea. An important part is finding them. Remember the phrase 'Jim-jil-bang odi eh yo?' (where is the jim-jil-bang?) Ask people, use body language, or go online and search for expat groups on facebook and ask there (Daejeon Peeps is a helpful one, for example).

That is essentially the number one money saving tip while travelling in Korea - aside from couch-surfing. $9 over three weeks and you've spent just $189 on accommodation and add to that just $210 on travel.. you've just spent $400 and you've still got $600 left of our imaginary $1000 budget to spend on the rest of your stay.

Korean won

With $600 remaining for three weeks of spending is roughly $30 a day. We have accounted for sleeping in jim-jil-bangs and travel already; with buses, subways and cheaper slow trains city to city. So $600 will leave you a lot of room to play with when it comes to eating (it's cheaper than you think) and visiting tourist places (they're usually cheap or free), providing you know where to eat! So let's move on to that.. food.

Korean food is delicious. Here are some photos:

Ban-chan - side dishes

Bibimbap

Samgyetang

Galbi - Ribs

Well, it sure looks nice. So, how much does it cost? Surprisingly little, actually! It all depends on where you buy it. If you eat local where Korean people eat, then it is not expensive at all. For example, the side dishes that you see in these pics are free when you order a main meal. A main meal can be as simple as a roll of seaweed and rice (kimbab), a bowl of chicken soup (samgyetang), or a portion of mixed rice (bibimbap), and water or tea is usually free. 

Kimbap - Delicious - $1.50 - $4.00

Prices range from $1,50 for a kimbap roll up to around $9 for a large bowl of samgyetang (chicken broth soup with ginseng). There are of course, the corner shops. GS25, CU, SevenEleven and Buy The Way among others. These sell cheap refreshments like sandwiches, kimbap rolls, and Ramen. Ramen is a cheap and delicious way of eating a snack for a few dollars. I would spend around $15 a day on food and be comfortable. You can eat kimbap, bibimbap, sundae, so-gug-bap and many other dishes for that price in a day. Alternatively that's 12 of these:

Shin Cup Ramen - $1.25

If you want to go all out, then hit up the buffet. There are a number of chain buffets in Korea and they usually offer lunchtime specials. 'All that barbecue' is a popular chain and you can eat unlimited servings of several dishes for 10,000 won ($10) at lunch. I'd definitely recommend it.

Ok, so you've got the most important and expensive aspects of your trip under control, sleeping, traveling and eating. now you just need to decide where to go! Here are a list of ideas:

Haeundae Beach, Busan

Here is one of the most beautiful places in Korea. The national palace in Seoul.

경북궁 향원정 - Kyong-Bok-Palace

Starbucks Coffee- Insa-dong, Seoul

Korean Hangul - The Korean language

The Korean alphabet was invented by King Sejong to help the common people to become literate. The language is a very logical language and as such you can learn the basics in an afternoon (no really! check this out)

Kim Yuna - 김연아

Kim Yuna is considered the best ice skater in the world. Now retired. A national treasure.

Korean Air, as well as Air Asiana, are Korean owned airlines

Traditional Clothing

Of course, $1000 is easy to blow through in Korea, especially in Seoul, so be realistic about your budget. If you wanted to do it, you certainly could. Also, consider a shorter trip, 10 days and $1000 you could live very well, for example, and still see a majority of the country.

I'd recommend checking out the government tourist site: http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/index.kto

I hope this guide was useful! Feel free to leave comments or ask me questions. Peace!

Images sourced from https://www.flickr.com/search/advanced using the creative commons feature.

List of good ESL Job sites

I have bookmarked a lot of the best ESL job sites. I am always interested in adding more so if you have any solid job links please contact me and I will add them to the list.

List of good ESL Job sites:

http://www.profsabroad.com

http://www.asiateachingjobs.com/

http://ihworld.com/jobs

https://jobs.britishcouncil.org/

http://www.teachanywhere.com/jobs/job-search/

http://www.global-teachers.org/index.html

http://www.tefl.com/job-seeker/

https://chroniclevitae.com/

http://www.indeed.co.uk/Eap-jobs

https://www.esl101.com/esl-jobs

http://www.mytefljobs.com/

http://www.cambridgeenglishteacher.org/careers

http://teaching-in-japan.gaba.co.jp/

http://www.higheredjobs.com/

http://jobs.theguardian.com/jobs/international/

http://www.teacherkick.com/

http://www.teacherhit.com/

http://www.worknplay.co.kr/korea-jobs

http://www.eslcafe.com/joblist/

http://careers.tesol.org/jobs/

http://www.koreajobpro.com/

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/china

http://mytefl.net/blog/tefl-destinations-16-exotic-islands/

http://jalt-publications.org/tlt/departments/job-info-centre/jobs

https://jobs.gaijinpot.com/

http://www.meetdalian.com/teach.html

http://www.learn4good.com/jobs/

http://seoulprofessionals.com/job-category/english-language/

http://www.greatestteachers.com/

http://www.eslemployment.com/

http://www.seekteachers.com/jobs.asp

http://www.tatioman.com/website/TEFL-TESOL.htm

http://www.koreatesol.org/Job-Board

http://www.footprintsrecruiting.com/

http://www.bestlearning.cn/

http://goldstarteachers.com/

http://www.tefl.net/esl-jobs/esl-jobs.pl

http://www.nes-hk.com/opportunities/

http://www.bellenglish.com/Jobs/Latestvacancies/

http://www.teachaway.com/teaching-jobs-abroad

http://www.teachingthailand.com/

http://www.m2rglobal.com/

http://www.seriousteachers.com/

http://www.unijobs.asia/

http://www.rayenglish.com/

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/education-studies-tefl

http://jobs.macmillan.com/

http://uk.pearson.com/home/about-us/jobs.html

http://www.cambridge.org/about-us/careers/

http://www.baleap.org.uk/jobs/

http://www.efjakarta.com/

http://www.zamanu.edu.kh/en/content/career-zaman-university

http://www.tuj.ac.jp/joblistings/faculty080730.html

http://www.au.edu/index.php/news-info/au-employment

http://www.anyworkanywhere.com/

http://www.pimento-soe.co.uk/jobs/2043-9950/english-as-a-foriegn-language-teacher-tefl.php

http://www.gokunming.com/en/classifieds/folder/2/jobs_offered

http://www.talent.ac.uk/jobs.asp

https://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekTop?fn=4&ln=1

http://www.jacet.org/kobo/index.html

http://www.indeed.co.uk/jobs?q=university+english&l=uk

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=English+as+an+Additional+Language+Department&oq=English+as+an+Additional+Language+Department&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=0&ie=UTF-8

http://www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/search.cfm?JobCat=83

http://careers.kaplaninternational.com/jobs/

http://www.aqa.org.uk/about-us/work-with-us/examiners-and-moderators/current-vacancies

http://www.edexcel.com/Aboutus/who-we-are/our-people/recruitment/Pages/home.aspx

http://www.britishcouncil.or.th/en/teach/recruitment

http://jobs.theguardian.com/jobs/school-management/#browsing

http://www.teflwarehouse.com/jobs/


Please feel free to leave a comment below if any links are broken or you have news and information about a new ESL job site. Thanks a lot.

Review of Vance Miller: Kitchen Gangster? by John Netwon

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Believe it or not, Vance Miller is actually a nice guy. That's the impression I got from him after reading this book. Yes, he's had his troubles. He's not half the villain that the Manchester metropolitan police and trading standards make him out to be though. He's a capitalist, pure and simple!

The book was a fascinating insight into the mind of this unusual yet bewitching character and definitely a page turner.

I got through the first 70% of the book within a few hours and the pages just flew by. The ending of the book does seem to drag on however and the author seems to lose steam at this point too. The conclusion is indecisive to say the least but despite this his is a truly inspirational story which is genuinely worth learning about!

Here is a look at some of Vance's best bits in China..

Review: How to Get a University Job in South Korea by Jackie Bolen

How to Get a University Job in South Korea: The English Teaching Job of Your Dreams Jackie Bolen

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Overall this was an honest account of how to get a university job in Korea by someone who has had a university job there for nearly 10 years.

A lot of the information is about common sense and preparation ahead of the interview as well as having realistic expectations about Korea and the types of desirable people that they want.

I'd not hesitate to recommend this book to anyone curious about the workings of the university bureaucracy within Korea and for the price of a cup of coffee. I'd say that it is well worth it.