Certified TEFL Teacher jobs in Poland

Hi :)

Please don't shoot. I am just curious. How is the job situation in poland for Non EU members who want to work at language schools to teach English?

Have 5 years of teaching experience in Asia but no degree :)
Poland seems like such a beautiful country, so wondering if it is on my short term list or long term list :)

Thanks

Practically non-existent. Forget about it, that ship sailed years ago. Any need can be met with EU-nationals and permanent residents, and wages have stagnated to the point where they are not at all attractive. You might not even break even. The situation is essentially the same everywhere in the EU. If there are any green pastures for TEFL teachers, the are in Asia, especially the richer Arabic countries.

Still that bad today? Poles must be proficient in English then, but still I have doubts about that.

There's still a reasonable market for language training however it isn't the hothouse it was 20 years ago.

Interestingly, there are increasing numbers of well-educated Poles who are teaching English in other countries.

Worth mentioning that most of Dominic B's posts were about discouraging non-white people from coming to work in Poland.

A foreigner teaching a foreign language.. It could work at some / low to medium level, but for much better proficiency, especially in the spoken language, a native speaker cannot be replaced.

Generally up to B1, however there are good ones who can do B2.

With language teaching, it isn't so much your command of the languages as your ability to teach, plan lessons, follow a syllabus and prepare people for exams.


One issue is that there aren't always enough to go around who have the right skill set and sometimes the best candidate for the job is someone who has made the same journey as the learners.

I'm hiring now, two posts. For one of the posts, the best candidate is a Pole. He's lived in the U.K., is well qualified and has good teaching experience. Incidentally, in terms of salary (very high) and terms (rotational in Africa, direct hire, public sector) the job is probably in the top 5% or less of EFL posts worldwide. I didn't advertise it since the last time I did, there were around 600 replies of which about 550 didn't match the basic requirements mentioned in the ad and of the remaining 50, around half were known to me and had a poor reputation and the others had either the wrong type of experience or other warning bells rang. So I asked a trusted source for a recommendation.

Sadly, he's currently blowing a bit hot and cold since he doesn't quite believe it and thinks it's too good to be true!

Incidentally some universities too have Poles, Czechs and Italians lecturing in their English Departments.