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i like your profile name. "nam" like old vn vet referring to their tour in vn "nam"_

The member you are responding to, Nam, has not been active in ~8 years, so it is doubtful you will receive a reply.

anyway. your response to buenz  is very informative, and i find it helpful in my case. i had been thinking of going to retire early and to keep from boredom by teaching english while living there.  but i haven't had much luck getting interest from applying to teaching jobs posted here on expat forum. i hold a college bachelor, TESOL certified and bilingual in vietnanese.

You are certainly qualified to teach English in VN.

Although i am not a native speaker, but i am fairly fluent from living in the states since my teenage. so i guess in the pecking order, i am between a native vietnamese teacher of english and a native speaker teaching english, but comparatively more qualified than turkish, german and russian who try to teach english in vn .

You of course mean some Turks/Germans/Russians, perhaps? I have met many Europeans here who's English is impeccable, certainly exceeding that of some of the native English travellers I have met (by a long shot!)

  so what is the secret formula. someone on a previous thread here said i need to be there on scene having face to face meeting with recruiters.  but i would need to know where and who the recruiters are.
        -@brianAFSER73

That was sound advice you received. Visit a school you might be interested in teaching at. Speak to some of the other English teachers (native and otherwise) and I've no doubt that you'll soon learn how to go about finding a suitable position.

    @DylanG
I'm not saying it's impossible to find them in large populated cities like HCMC and Hanoi but they are much easier to find in the outlying areas like farming communities.

The member you are replying to, DylanG, has not been active for ~8 years, so it is doubtful that you will receive a response from them.

My suggestion would be for you to volunteer some time teaching or assisting other teachers. This would help you to get some experience under your belt and volunteers are always welcome everywhere.   
        -@drutter

With regard to volunteering, I had written the following in another thread.

'I believe the process in acquiring a DN1 Volunteer Visa is even a bit more complicated than the Working Visa, in that the Volunteer Visa requires not only the approval of VN immigration, but also of the local community authority in the area/region where the volunteering will be offered.

I could be wrong on this, and if so I am open to being corrected.'

Also, and although the thread on "Teaching Pro Bono Publico, Pro Gratis, or Privately (one on one) " (Link. good comments there)  was specific to teaching, my thinking is that "volunteering" in any field, in any capacity, would require approval.