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Q: Looking for a job as an English teacher. R there any for non-native speakers?
Preferably in Shanghai and Suzhou. I'm Russian. After graduation in 2017 I'll get 2 bachelor diplomas - as an English teacher and English-Russian Interpreter. So I'd like to work as a teacher in China. I've already checked many ads, offers, but native speakers are often acquired in many of them. What can u say about this? Do I have any chances?
8 years 13 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
Yes there are, but most likely not in the biggest cities around China.
School must get WP for Non-native English teacher from SAFEA (Foreign Expert Bureau), which they decline to issue it for Non-native FTeachers in big Chinese cities and by the coast of China.
Click 'Jobs' tag, top R of this page, prepare your CV with all required docs., and start emailing it to the job adverts. I usually disregard 'Native English Teacher' requirement on job advert, and send my CV anyway.
Chinese schools won't reply, if they aren't interested in your CV or they know, they can't get WP in their city for Non-native teacher. Never mind. Keep sending your CV, till you won't receive reply.
I'm in China since 2009 and I had WP as Non in Hebei, Liaoning, Xinjiang, Fujian and now in Henan.
Granting WP in China isn't similar as in Russia, Taiwan, Japan, EU, where Non-native English teachers can't get WP, which is required for legal work.
IMO, you would have better chance for job in China as teacher of Russian language than English.
Good luck!
Hotwater:
The biggest cities are Tier 1.....
For the WP there is also the issue of two years work experience, though this doesn't have to be in teaching.
icnif77:
I was counting my 'imbi' for how many times I can do bus...., and I wrote Tier 5. 
'imbi' = coin
'neubi'= awesome
I found getting toward 'fluency' in China as extremely difficult. I'm having my teeth done at the moment (by fem ya-yi = very gentle) to sharpen my pronunciation ability, and then I use wrong word at expressions....
AnnaAnnaAnna:
thank u very much for ur help, advice! I was also thinking about being Russian teacher in China) but how to find ads and offers?))
icnif77:
Click 'Jobs' and change 'Job category' to 'teaching jobs', and enter 'Russian' in search window. Then, you'll get display of all Russian teacher's job adverts, and if you don't enter anything display will be for all languages jobs, English language teacher adverts most sought.
