Going to BJ to find out more about English teaching

Greetings and welcome.
1st I have to warn you that ChinaESL, as most if not all recruiting firms, are not as honest as they seem. I have heard bad things about them but, it never happened to me.

Beijing for one is a good place to find work, friends, foreign things you miss from home, a shit load of girls and nightlife and decent living standards. The offsets are: HEavy pollution, really bad traffic and expensive housing.  I guess its up to you.

There are many websites floating online with 1000's of foreigners on that can assist with your search.

My best advice is.

Get online, meet some girls who are friendly enough, come here with your own cash and agenda, and get your own place and start looking at jobs and study how the market truly is.

If you want more advice. Drop me a line

David n Beijing

Hi Dave,

I have just moved here as an English Teacher in Miyun.

I found work through a program called TEIC : teic.co.uk/

They were very good, but I think it is for UK based people, and I am not sure of your background.

Hope things go okay, Stu

Hi Stuart,

I'm from the UK...Manchester in fact.

What is usually best is to find a school directly rather than going with agencies. This way they tend to look after you a little better because they prefer to keep teachers longer so their classes have some continuity. There are loads of job websites for teachers in Beijing. Thebeijinger.com and Dave's ESL cafe are good places to start though.

If there is one thing i had plenty was people asking if i looked for a job in teaching. Although for teaching thebeijinger is a good bet or just call the schools yourself. Go to sanlitun drink a beer your bound to run into a 1-2 teachers on a evening atleast i do:P

Hi! Welcome to China!
If you are interested in teaching please contact me.

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I have lived and worked in China for more than 10 years already. Will be glad to share my experience with you.