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Finding English teaching jobs in Poland [19]
Jon - what's GW?
Gazeta Wyborcza. In their Warsaw section (same for other larger cities) they carry small ads including from language teachers. Also Gumtree - a Polish friend who does private tuition for another language got a couple of pupils from there recently. Prices are falling right now unfortunately.
While it's true that I have never made a great deal of money, I have made a decent living and have got great satisfaction from my work.
Agreed - it can be a very rewarding profession, less so if you're punting out Headway in a private language school, more so in a public sector university or a good company. You can however make very good money indeed, but PL really isn't the place to get rich. Nowadays that's the oilfields of Central Asia and Iraq as well as certain other parts of the Middle East and Africa. Worth mentioning that the OP who says in another post that she's 22 wouldn't have much of a chance their though Saudi universities are always looking for female teachers.
LinkedIn/ own website/ self promotion.
While I remember, there's another option that might be useful to the OP, as an alternative to LinkedIn. I've got a profile on goldenline.pl (Poland's answer to LinkedIn, seems to be slowly dying a death now) and am listed as being in some of the English speaking and ELT groups. It also has my CV on that says I used to be an English teacher and do something similar even now. Because of that, I've had a few messages from private language schools offering lessons in Warsaw.
Might be worth a try, though not much will happen at this time of year. In fact a good 3/4 of EFL teachers in Warsaw will lose all their lessons for the summer and either have a break themselves or do UK summer schools. Of the remainder, most will lose some of the teaching they do and mid-August will be very, very quiet. The time to send out a CV is the last week in August, and maybe repeat the mail 2 weeks later. Empik School used to be a big recruiter and Speak-Up (a method school, used to be called Orange) have several centres around town.
She should also look at TEFL.com every couple of days (posts are filled fast) and maybe sign up for the job alerts they do, though most of the work in Poland that advertises there is not in Warsaw.
