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Finding jobs

Job search Internet tips -- Roger Chrisman, May 21, 1999

If you have WWW access, definitely search Dave's ESL Cafe for key word "China". If you don't have bood WWW access, you can still search the TESL-L and TESLJB-L archives by email commands, see below.

Dave's ESL Cafe jobs search** http://www.eslcafe.com/jobs/: Most comprehensive TEFL/TESL positions announcement bulletin board on the WWW. Search it with key words such as "China" or a "city/region of your choice."
Appalachians Abroad* http://www.marshall.edu/gochina: An organization that specializes in sending teachers to China. Also, Clark Egnor provides links to many other such organizations here http://www.marshall.edu/gochina/links/. Some of these organizations are very good at preparing you for the unique teaching environment in China
Fred Gale's excellent list of links to organizations involved in sending teachers to China: http://members.aol.com/lumabner/china/chinalink.htm
TEFL Professional Network http://tefl.com/jobs: They sell professional development services but also provide some free information such as their Jobs List page of about 80 international English teaching position announcements including a few in China. To receive their free of charge once a week as email, send a blank message to subscribe@tefl.com.
State Bureau of Foreign Experts http://www.chinajob.com: Basically boils down to an email address where you may send your resume if you are looking for a teaching job in China, sbfe@chinaonline.com.cn.net. They ask you to tell them the city you want to teach in. I tried it and they offered me a job somewhere else. They do display sample copies of the standard foreign expert teaching contracts that I believe the universities are required to follow when hiring foreign teachers.
Academic WWW in China http://my-pages.com/china: Academic China links. Find contact info to schools in your city of choice here.
Chinese Universities & Institutes http://hong.commerce.ubc.ca/www/shen/univ.html: More academic China links.

Hong Kong

HK job issues FAQ* by Michael J. Brown

PR China

TEFLChina email list

If you are not already subscribed to the TEFL China Teahouse's public email list, you may want to subscribe. After you have scoured the web tell us what you found and ask specific questions -- educated questions with specific subject lines stimulate good answers from the pros on the TEFL-China email list.

TESL-L and TESLJB-L email lists

TESL-L has 25,000 subscribers worldwide! and its jobs discussion branch, TESLJB-L, attracts position announcements. The following message, if sent in the body of an email to listserv@listserv.cuny.edu will subscriber you to TESL-L and TESLJB-L (if you are already subscribed just skip the first two lines) and get you an index of all TESLJB-L messages containing whatever words you put in place of "keyword(s)", since whatever date you put):

SUBSCRIBE TESL-L yourfirstname yourlastname
SUBSCRIBE TESLJB-L yourfirstname yourlastname
SEARCH keyword(s) IN TESLJB-L SINCE 07-01-01

replace "keyword(s)" with perhaps "China" or a "City" of your choice to find position announcements and posts that mention the keyword(s). Of course, if you are already subscribed to TESL-L and TESLJB-L then you don't need the first two lines which are subscribe commands. Note that you must be subscribed to TESL-L to access its branches, such as TESLJB-L. The commands can all be sent in one message, but put them in the above order because Listserv processes them sequentially. Just try it. It works :-) You could also search TESL-L with another search command replacing TESLJB-L with TESL-L. TESLJB-L is probably your best bet for job searching though because TESL-L discussions are restricted to classroom issues only. TESLJB-L is the jobs issues list.

When Listserv gets the above command from you it will send you an index of all the TESLJB-L messages containing your "search term" since whatever date you specified -- the date pattern is YY-MM-DD. The index Listserv sends you will include instructions and a GETPOST TESLJB-L ##### command that you can copy and paste into another message to listserv@listserv.cuny.edu to get the back posts you want. Each post is ordered with its ID number (#####).

If you don't want to get any list mail from TESL-L or TESLJB-L (together they send about 15 to 25 messages a day) then send the following in the body of an email to: listserv@listserv.cuny.edu

SET TESL-L NOMAIL
SET TESLJB-L NOMAIL

When you want to turn mail back on, send:

SET TESL-L MAIL
SET TESLJB-L MAIL

You can still search with the lists set to NOMAIL. However, if you wish to completely unsubscribe from TESL-L, send the following in the body of an email to: listserv@listserv.cuny.edu

UNSUBSCRIBE TESL-L

(Listserv ignores the subject line. So you may use whatever subject line is useful for your purposes.)

Good luck! Administration of English language teaching in China is a bit up in the air right now and will probably stay that way for some time because of extended authority structures and bureaucratic inefficiencies. If you go for it you will be largely on your own. All major cities have Internet Service Providers. Tell us all about your new job when you find it, and ask us some specific questions on TEFL-China.

All the best!