Is it easy to find an English-teaching job in China?

MichaelM (US)

It is very easy to find a job as a native speaking English teacher in China. My daughter, who lives in Turkey presently, wanted to come to China to teach. She got online and had found three jobs in the city where I live and teach in matter of two hours. She had three job offers in her first day. In fact, the schools were competing to recruit her. The pay is twice what it was when I first started teaching in China five years ago. She put her resume online and was contacted directly by 10 schools in three days. Many more contacted her and wanted interviews with her. She did only two interviews and both schools offered her a job before the interview was over. According to the China Foreign Teachers Union, there were about 29,000 foreign teachers in China last school year. Right now, there are 12,000 job openings. Many teachers are not returning. In Henan, where I live, about half of the teachers that taught last year won't come back (I talked to an official at the Foreign Experts Bureau). China is the second lowest paying country for foreign English teachers next to Egypt. The requirements for new applications for visas are making it even much more difficult.

Foreign teacher play games with students, at the 2nd international English summer camp hosted in Xiuwen international academy, during July 11-24, 2013, at the city of Zibo, Shandong province.