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95% of on-line TEFL courses are either scams or just plain garbage. This should help you find one sponsored by a legitimate university... https://www.esl-jobs-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=7628

Well, they are on all three blacklists.(CTA, CFTU and China Scam Patrol. What more do you need to know? see https://reddit.com/r/chinascamcentral

This is the reality of Teaching in China. Welcome to the dark side and always scrutinize any and every job offer that comes your way. Analyze the contract they want you to sign and if it violates these guidelines, rewrite the contract accordingly. If they want you they will sign it. If not, take a p...

Hopefully all of you who have read this thread have renegotiation your contract by now to get those extra three months of pay that you are entitled to by Chinese law - so long as you are a full-time employee. If you are offered jobs that offer you less than 40 hours of work per week, be aware you wi...

You know what? The reason so many foreigners "ignore Chinese law" its because all the announcements are always in Chinese with no English announcements! How can we even know when the new laws come out if they are only put out in Chinese? Seriously. That a good point but still not an excus...

All of the worst TEFL scams are identified at https://reddit.com/r/teflscams. Be sure to download both the White and Blacklist and tape it to your refrigerator.

2022 UPDATE: This scam is still alive and well - so BEWARE colleagues!

UPDATE: I would go one step further and say do not consider any TEFL teaching job without getting a passport or ID scan of the person who is trying to recruit you. If they only give you a first or last name - run. Ditto if they give you a bogus Chinglish name like Tom Chen or nick name like Ying Yi...

Expat foreign teachers can no longer tutor or work for any employer that is not a public school or university https://www.reddit.com/r/ChinaScamPatro ... or_profit/

For teaching resources there is no better website than TEFL.Net. For due diligence and "scam avoidance" I use https://reddit.com/r/TEFLscams and reddit.com/r/ChinaScamCentral and https://reddit.com/r/TEFL_tips_traps_scams and for jobs I use the DIY links at https://reddit.com/r/CFTU simply...

https://www.limitconsulting.com/content/unpleasant-surprise.jpg After teaching more than a decade in China please trust me when I tell you that 70% of all online TEFL job ads you see are for non-existent jobs and in the TEFL industry they are called "bait ads" designed only to acquire a t...

According to China Scam Patrol, Echo is using a business license of a third party company. I suggest you call Crystal at SAFEA in the Beijing HQ office and ask them for the Registration number for Echo English. If she gives you a number they are registered, at least with SAFEA, if they are not regi...

http://www.chinese-word.com/pic/0656-5.jpg 2021 China TEFL FAQs We were all at square 1 at one point in our TEFL careers and had dozens of questions dancing around in our heads and not many veteran teachers had the time to be bothered with us, so we spent hours searching on line until we found one ...

https://media.tenor.co/images/313fed5d8fdd8b0845e19555a1da65c3/raw A while ago we had an active debate going online here about the value of scam alert links that went on for about two weeks with a protagonist who turned out to be an undercover TEFL recruiter posing as a friendly and helpful "f...

https://memegenerator.net/img/images/300x300/12141412.jpg I remember how excited I was when I first began teaching many moons ago and how fun the job search was. I was one of five friends that decided to take the plunge together in China. Of course we all got hired in less than 10 days of sending o...

https://ugc.futurelearn.com/uploads/images/b4/41/b4415c05-8beb-4123-883d-91b683f81277.jpg Heads up to all. I just noticed there are two recruiters on this forum that are posting false low-ball salaries that are pre-COVID salaries. You will find them with either very low post counts or the highest p...

https://www.scienceabc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/shock.jpg This may come as a shock to you, but most of scams that target TEFL teachers originate at the recruitment stage which is dominated by foreigners in the U.K., America, Canada, Australia, and South Africa. Watch this video https://youtu....

http://coacheshotseat.com/chsblog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/JoeFriday888.jpg By the same token John, I will support anyone and everyone who exposes online recruiters disguised as "Helpful" fellow teachers and I urge all my teacher colleagues to stop thinking only the Chinese will scam yo...

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x177/Diogenes2008/head-up-butt.png For the 4th time John, you still have not answered the Questions asked by users: 1) What is the CFTU selling and for how much? 2) Name a real victim and how much did they lose. And fuck yes, I care about what you write because yo...

https://i1.wp.com/www.wealthnoob.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/cny.jpg?resize=750%2C500 John has not taught in China since 2017 - 3 years BEFORE COVID hit. I am here in Beijing for the last 8.5 years. Take note that Forbes, Huffington Post, China Daily, The Global Times, Telegraph (UK), Immigratio...