TEFL Jobs: Careers and Development

At Oxford TEFL we are committed to providing our graduates with TEFL career support during and after the Trinity certificate or diploma course. We’ve helped grads find work all over the world for over ten years. Additionally, we believe that truly great teachers never stop being students, so we try to keep our graduates informed of development opportunities like development courses, useful online resources, TEFL conferences and social networking activities.

Oxford TEFL Career and Development support
Our international network of graduates
Graduates' TEFL job stories

Oxford TEFL career and development support includes:

Lifetime access to our personalised TEFL career support service. A few of the many things we do for our graduates are: - Make your CV TEFL friendly. - Send your CV to all our local and international contacts. - Actively look for jobs for you. - Direct you to the best local websites for the location of your choice. - Let you know when schools contact us looking for teachers. - Put you in touch with graduates in the area you want to work in. We have graduates all over the world.	Nicola Meldrum, BCN Careers Adviser
Lifetime graduate membership to oxfordtefljobs.com. Graduate membership allows you to: - View and respond to international job ads. - Post your CV for employers around the world. - Participate in forums on finding work, teaching and living in foreign locations. - Read up on teacher development, finding work and teaching. - Access a teacher resource bank and searchable lesson database.	www.oxfordtefljobs.com
Subscription to the monthly Oxford TEFL Graduate Newsletter Each issue includes: - Questions and news from graduates. - Oxford TEFL news including free workshops, development courses and social activities. - Job ads we have received. - Job hunting and teaching tips.	Oxford TEFL Grad Newsletter

Our international network of graduates

At Oxford TEFL, we pride ourselves on supporting our graduates in their TEFL careers, and we think our hard work pays off in the way they keep in touch with us and one another. Below are some places to have a look to see how Oxford TEFL and its graduates share job information, teaching tips and teacher development resources... and socialize!

Oxford TEFL Facebook profile

Oxford TEFL Blog

Social events page

The map below shows the locations of just a few OxfordTEFL Graduates. Hover over a dot to read the graduate's message.

Our graduates' TEFL job stories

Hi Nicola,
Thank you for sending out my CV for the past two weeks. I received a good amount of calls and emails. Finally, I decided on a school and it has been going well. Right now I no longer need my CV sent out. Thanks for your help!
Bernice Patten October 2009

Hi Nicola and Claire,
Hope you guys are doing well. Thought you might like to know that I've now found a job. I'm working for a school called Bvrns Academy in Durango in the Basque Country and am really looking forward to it- I start at the beginning of October. They teach from ages 3/4 to adult so I'll be able to put what I've learnt on the course into practice! Thank you very much Nicola for helping me with my CV (it was a definite help!) and also for sending it around to various schools for me. I have had a few replies but no longer need it send out now. I've been a bit busy of late so I haven't been working on the online course for the past couple of weeks but have posted some stuff on the forums today. Now I only have to finish off planning my project and do the weblog and am intending to finish it off by next week. All the best.
Tristan Deane

I took the Trinity Cert. TESOL Course at OxfordTEFL in November 2007. After passing the course, Kate sent my CV out to over 100 schools. The next day I was inundated with job offers. I thought I would struggle to find work, but there are always hours going if you are prepared to look. I am still in Barcelona, now teaching at Oxford House and can see myself staying here for a while".
Darren Campbell

As far as China it has been a great time. I just did a three week summer camp, but I had a great time. It was difficult but very rewarding. I taught very young kids, 6-7 years old, and they knew almost no English, but they are great. I love them, and I had a wonderful experience. Chinese bureaucracy can be a little much, but you just have to realize that's how things are done here. Feel free to give my email to anyone who's interested in coming to China, I can give them info, and my good friend worked here for over a year. I also just finished a year in Kiev, Ukraine, and I can give anybody who's interested information or advice about that as well.
Shanti Marthaller

This is Steffi. Thanks for your update mails re jobs! I have settled in Valencia, and I love it here. I work in a small, friendly language school (I think their HQs are in Barcelona), I have small classes with 3 students max. and a very nice director of studies, who is helping me a lot settling into my new job. It is part-time, which is what I wanted, so there is space for being a musician. On Wednesday I performed in the Palau de la Musica accompanying a children´s choir... I live in a cool flat, a bit crazy and bohemian , and they don't mind me practising-important!
Anyway, hope you are well! Do give my kind regards to Anna and Jane and Violeta and Luke and Mark and everybody.
Stefanie Waegner

TESOL Course in Barcelona, July 2007 My name is Nicole Hooks and I completed the Oxford Barcelona course in July of 2006. I am still living in Barcelona and I am still teaching English. I have been teaching since I left the course and have really been enjoying it. As stressfull as it can be at times, I really do love teaching English. The training and education that I received from Trinity has gone a long way and I really do value the course. I am constantly recommending the program to anyone who even mentions that they are thinking about teaching. I definitely think that I got my money's worth and more.
Nicole Hooks

I was concerned after completing the course that, as an American, I might be unable to find a job here in Barcelona. However, with the help of the careers service here at Oxford Tefl, I have secured some excellent teaching positions with good pay here in Barcelona. With their help, I am confident that I can remain in Barcelona for as long as I want. And, if I ever need help finding more work, I know that they will be here to guide me in my job search.
Mark Blohm

I will always think of OxfordTEFL with love. I am always happy to be a reference. After two years of teaching on exclusive resort islands in the Maldives, I am currently living and teaching in Madrid. I've been here for nearly a year and have taught many top ranking officials in the Palacio Real and their children, in addition to the rich and powerful of Madrid. Unfortunately, those were contracted and while my boss was rich... I was not, by any means. With five years teaching experience, I fianlly had the courage to go freelance and Madrid is a great place to do it. Some of my classes pay 35 euros an hour and are so much fun that they don't feel like work. Life is a beautiful thing. Have a wonderful day! saludos.
Willow Vanderbosch