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Caver
November 29th, 2012, 03:03 PM
Is it easy to get a job overseas without a degree teaching english?
I would love to travel the world, but I wont do a degree.
Any other ways?
Jean Poutine
November 29th, 2012, 09:24 PM
No, it's not.
In Asia, every major transfer-to-teach program will ask an undergraduate, be in JET or the Chinese/Korean equivalent. You also might need teaching experience and/or teaching credentials for the latter, and I know for a fact any job teaching English worth taking in China ask for a TESL test score. I don't know about any other place. If you mean you want to find jobs teaching English by just turning up at an university or high school then you have about 0 luck. Go through a transfer program, whether European or otherwise.
I see you're from Bulgaria. I don't want to be mean or to pop your bubble but if you have an accent, you might as well forget about it. The biggest market for expat English teachers is Asia, and they love American accents over there. I've heard of perfectly fluent Irish people having trouble landing an English teaching position overseas because of their accent. I'm from Canada and I have a pretty slight, nondescript accent (since recently ; it wasn't always so) because my mother tongue is French and I wouldn't even be able to land a job teaching anything but French overseas.
To be really honest with you, employing an expatriate is a lot of work, and most countries have a bevy of their own citizens with accented English scoring English teaching diplomas in their own universities. The whole reason to employ an expat is to get a native speaker precisely so he/she can develop in pupils the correct accent. Going through a whole bunch of bureaucratic, international red tape to hire you is not worth it to them.
Try your luck if you want but I'd be very surprised, especially without a degree.
canadaski
November 30th, 2012, 01:32 PM
My cousin is a law dropout and he got a job in south korea teaching english with his girlfriend. From what I hear, it doesn't require much, give it a shot.
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