Forgive me, but I can't find a teaching job with just a half reasonable school/center and a contract. In 2002, there were loads of teaching jobs out there in China and contractual agreements were also much more negotiable than today. Not only that contracts are tough to negotiate now, but also many of them contradict mainland's labor laws. And, again forgive me recruiters, but there are so many of you out there today and so few direct contacts. One one hand you might eliminate the misunderstanding in between the applicant and employer as for the language or cultural differences, but you ask for a way too much in a sense of the applicant's documentation.

Here this job on daves now is a stand out

Web International English (Shanghai)

Job Summary *

To teach at Web International English is interesting, challenging and rewarding.

We are looking for those who enjoy living in Shanghai and like to develop into a professional ESL teacher.



Job Description *

The teaching method Webi adopts is a combination of advanced multimedia learning courseware, ESL classes and diversified extra curricula activities.

25 contact hours and 15 office hours per week. Available to teach in the evenings and at weekend.

Our students are adults over 17 years old who are eager to learn and improve in English.



We offer *

Induction training

On-the-job training and workshops

Competitive salary

17 days paid holidays

Flight allowance

Substantial housing allowance

Residence permit

Free Chinese classes

Isn't this slap in the face for the city of Shanghai? Teaching so many REAL HOURS will surely provide you with "rewards and challenges" as for the preparation for your classes. Their lame before tax 8,000 that's sooo competitive comes with "substantial" 4,000 housing allowance which you may all as well pass on directly to the landlord in Shanghai, and I am not even talking about deposits etc.
Now, I applied and after I got a reply I asked for more as I said I was experienced. And they raised their offer from 8,000 to 13,000 ...for 30 weekly hours of teaching. I wouldn't lose my job over some complaining students that I am tired, would I? :)


Looks like the warm welcome that we've got a decade ago has pretty well cooled down, or frozen completely, hasn't it? Is the supply of foreign teachers on mainland really so high that the demand dictates the pace, or is it that the internet has wide opened the window of opportunities to the local employers? Well, I am glad to have posted this message as my computer also has the internet access.

Cheers and beers to all teachers that will not sell themselves short, although I am getting really short on any reasonable offers
Matt