Looking to move from NZ to teach or work - Anyone have experience or advice to provide?

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phuketrichard wrote: Sat Sep 23, 2017 8:28 am only way u will make that kind of $$ is to be hired by an international school out of country. ($2, 500-3,000/month)
By out of country do you mean teach english to Khmer in a different country, or source a job from a different country and then come and teach english in Cambodia in an international school?

Cheers for all this info guys :beer3:
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No, you can walk straight into ACE in PP and they pay that range.
I imagine some others do too.
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Blucky wrote: Sat Sep 23, 2017 2:02 pm
phuketrichard wrote: Sat Sep 23, 2017 8:28 am only way u will make that kind of $$ is to be hired by an international school out of country. ($2, 500-3,000/month)
By out of country do you mean teach english to Khmer in a different country, or source a job from a different country and then come and teach english in Cambodia in an international school?

Cheers for all this info guys :beer3:
I mean the international High schools hire teachers to teach from outside Cambodia, ur paid more PLUS a r/t ticket home each year
NOT just teaching english but all subjects
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frank lee bent wrote: Sat Sep 23, 2017 2:09 pm No, you can walk straight into ACE in PP and they pay that range.
I imagine some others do too.
$2-000-$2,500/month with ONLY a tefl + anything degree? no experience??
never heard that. if so why are so many teaching for $10-12/hour?
seems if that is so, its worth getting an online BA / BS degree.
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with a degree and a celta as i mentioned above
tefl and no degree gets you 11-12
i was just offered 1200 in BB SR or PP for 25 contact hours.
not looking for work and wholly unqualified.
friend did an online 120 hr course and was immediately employed in PP, now moved to Kampot- 1200 a month for a 48 hr 4 day week
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$1,200 is NOT $2,000-$2,500
and a 48 hour week for $1,200/month is NOT $20/hour BUT only $6.25 LOL :please:
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it is ACE I am talking about that pays the higher range. They require a celta and a degree.
this info has already been stated by me above quite clearly.
any further questions, try scrolling up.
and yes, i can do simple arithmetic. just trying to give a range of payscales to OP.
you seem a little confused Richard.
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But the there are the several months of unpaid holidays. If I could do it again, I'd be straight to Vietnam. My former flunky, who has 0 in the range of skills, qualifications and charisma, and only a year of $500/month aspiring genius school in rural Cambodia is earning $25 an hour in vn for 25 hours a week.
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ha! hoisted by your own petard!
that is what will happen to OP i expect
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phuketrichard wrote: Sat Sep 23, 2017 2:13 pm
Blucky wrote: Sat Sep 23, 2017 2:02 pm
phuketrichard wrote: Sat Sep 23, 2017 8:28 am only way u will make that kind of $$ is to be hired by an international school out of country. ($2, 500-3,000/month)
By out of country do you mean teach english to Khmer in a different country, or source a job from a different country and then come and teach english in Cambodia in an international school?

Cheers for all this info guys :beer3:
I mean the international High schools hire teachers to teach from outside Cambodia, ur paid more PLUS a r/t ticket home each year
NOT just teaching english but all subjects
The upscale international schools don't care about CELTA / TEFL or similar that much, they care about an internationally recognized teaching license, actual teaching experience in their field of education, probably licenses for multiple subjects, and maybe a clean criminal record much more. Without those, they won't hire you. If you have all those, meet their needs, and don't have a CELTA / TEFL certificate I am sure that can be discussed.
They won't hire you when you walk in, but the will run a procedure for applicants choosing the person suiting their needs most. If you arrive in Cambodia with a CELTA / TEFL you will operate in the 10-12 USD per hour job market, and it seems that market is pretty much a buyer's market nowadays.
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