So true about this. I'm in Beijing right now visiting my wife family for 3 months and it's crazy how many jobs I been offered here and I'm not even looking. I hope everything works out for you Dude.
Is it really limitless? I feel there was more choices in 2010, you could go to any city. Now you can only go to cities where you got an offer. I'm seeing salaries drop from 2022. I'm seeing science teaching jobs dry up, the Chinese teachers seem to be picking them up, leaving only drama, music, business course positions open, where you have to be the clown, loud and entertaining foreigner. I'm an engineering graduate, I was teaching sciences. It seems more and more terrifying, like homelessness creeping in closer and closer. I see more and more jobs requiring a teaching license now. I don't know what to do.
Right now I’m teaching P.E but I am an MBA holder and a certified fitness instructor. You’re right jobs are definitely paying less than they did and the demand seems less than before but there is still major shortage of teachers and I may be wrong but I believe these changes are due to the shortage of treachery. Less and less teachers are willing to live in China and it seems they have to shift the focus away from foreign education due to the lack of foreign teachers as well as some geopolitical issues. We will have to see what the future holds for foreign teachers but as of now it’s still needed.
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@@viewpointabroad Dude, awesome videos. Very informative. It would be cool if you had a website where we could book a consultation with you. So you can hear whether we have the English ability to teach or not.
@dannybee6677 maybe in the future I’ll have a website and also offer some free services. Too busy now to sort it out with my job and these 2 businesses I’m going.
Please make more videos on teaching . Brown dude born and raised in the UK . Looking for teaching opportunities in China. What sort of schools would you advise ,city and benefits package ?
@viewpointabroad i love your content and subscribed after watching my first video. Please make more content . Nearly completed my tefl 120 hours. I have been offered jobs in china . But some recruiters do ask for my picture. Wonder why lol
@@islamicreminders3090 you need to listen to him carefully. He said if you are a WHITE guy opportunities are endless. You said you are brown. You will NOT have the same experience as him. If you want to know how you will be treated and how to find jobs you need to look at youtubers who have dark skin and trying to find a job in China. Even if you may not lile doing that...they are the ones whose experience will likely be similar to yours.
@@islamicreminders3090 you’re Brown dude. Even if you’re brown British, American, they’ll prefer white skin candidacies. I advise you stay in Britain. It’s hundred times better than China
Hello! My girlfriend and I are looking to move to China next year to teach English. We both are going to get our bachelors degrees soon and we are working on a TEFL. We are looking for a job each that pays 20k monthly ideally minimum, and we’d love to be in Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou, or Guangzhou, but if we can’t that’s understandable. I am speaking to a lot of recruiters over WeChat and they are confident that they can make these things happen for us, though I heard from one recruiter that what we are looking for is impossible without teaching experience, though that might just be him being greedy, or maybe it isn’t. I have heard from others that we should visit the cities we want with our tourist visas and walk into schools and ask if they have vacancies, as they say this is the best way to do it. Would you concur? Ps. We have been to Beijing before and we loved it. I am American and she is English.
@@burnteasy it’s easier to get a job if you’re here but problem is you can’t transfer from your to work visa in country. You’d have to go back home. It’s best to find a job from there and process the papers before you leave. Your salary expectations for those cities are actually a little low, you can definitely easily get 25k there minimum max maybe 28 but unlikely since you lack experience. I’d say take the 20-25k work 1 year and get settled in and then search for other jobs your 2nd or 3rd year.
@@viewpointabroad yeah 20k is completely fine for us especially with a combined income. I’ve just heard many people saying that it will be hard for us to get 20k even but I’m not sure what to believe any more as I also hear people saying the opposite 😅
@@viewpointabroad It depends on how hard you want to work, amount of grading etc. For an easy job 20 is OK. I'm surprised that people want to be lazy when they're in school, and then want to endure discomfort and work hard as adults. We come to China to take it easy, like 13 hours a week, just give an easy lecture, chat to some teenagers, and collect your paycheck, and go riding motorcycles. I was offered 10k for weekends only but it was small children so I didn't take it.
No , I don’t think so. I learned it without any problems. I never studied either. Just learned from years of communication. So , I do have a Guangdong accent. When I travel to other places in China people always know I came from Guangdong 😭
Subscribed! Nice to see some positive info in China. I'm leaving my job in football at the end of this month as head of video. Ive been looking for media jobs but ive not really got many offers? In Chong Qing, I found a few jobs for foreigners but they didnt hire me in the end even though I visited to find out more. My wife is British Naturalise Chinese. Any advice? Should I come to China to find work or continue applying? I have a tourist visa for now but eager to find more opportunities. I dont want to teach unless lecturing in university if poss and for media not english. Any advice would be great, would love to film travel and food around China as my dream job!
You’ll have better luck with your feet on the ground in China. Most want to hire people who are here. I’m not suggesting to work on a tourist visa , but nothing long with looking while on it. You can go back and re enter on your new visa after you find a job.
Hai John.I like your content. Can you share recruiters for teaching in China please I'm from South Afriica.I 've teaching license PGCE.I'll appreciate.
I’m a young (21) native speaker from a native speaking country (Australia). I’m half white and half Latino but my skin is brown. Do you have a general idea of what the opportunities are with this?
@@viewpointabroad do you need a degree? I’m able to get a z visa on the points system with a vocational certificate, and I asked recruiters of schools and they said yea that’s an option and it’s fine
You mentioned about being a white dude there’s limitless opportunities in China, I’m assuming they like to have diversities in their company? What about being Asian Americans? What types of jobs that are usually looking for foreigners other than the education field?
@@tonyhaoo8146 for other field being white isn’t really mandatory. I have several friends who are black / Asian working as actors in the film and tv industry and I have some friends also working in some big companies doing various things such as H. R. ,copywriters, internal communications ( newsletters and memos ) social media specialist for Chinese companies that handle their foreign accounts on X and tik tok. It really depends on your skills. I know a couple Asian Americans also working in education ( but it’s a bit harder to earn a typical foreign salary as they generally look for white people ) education is the easiest way to get your foot in the door though and then seek other opportunities after you get in.
@ yes of course you need a degree and yes they usually prefer white people for English teachers. They usually hire black people as coaches or PE teachers ( what I do now , PE teacher )
Agents don't take part of your salary, that was the old way from like 12-15 years ago. that's no longer in practice. Now the school will pay the agent a 1x payment equivalent to the teacher salary.
Yeah. No matter how qualified you are if you’re lacking the white face. More trines than not , they’ll choose a lesser or under qualified white non native over even a native English speaker with an Asian face. 😭
@@viewpointabroadI am Malaysian, but I can see that they are not very friendly towards overseas TH-camr, so you need to be careful，I don't know how much you know about the younger generation of China, but they are unfriendly to foreigners on the Internet
@@onion9387 yes. The younger kids have access to western media now and they are also swayed by the western negative news about China. Creates a divide.
I bet you can get a teaching job teaching MBA at a Beijing or Shanghai university! I knew a German girl 20yrs ago who had a new job teaching biology in Guangdong province! She don't speak Chinese, only German and English!
Yes you’ll be able to get a job for sure. It will be harder to find via online. It’s better to be in the country first then find the job. You’ll have to go back home to process the paperwork. If you’re lucky the employer will pay for that though. I have lots of friends who are non native English speakers who are working here.
@@viewpointabroad I will start my travelling -living life three months later. living every city for few months in coming years. no matter which city you will be, let's meet when I get there some day.
So true about this. I'm in Beijing right now visiting my wife family for 3 months and it's crazy how many jobs I been offered here and I'm not even looking. I hope everything works out for you Dude.
Thanks man. I think it will, I feel pretty good about the new job but I won’t truly know until I get there.
I have lived in Henan for 8 years, love it.
That's where I'm going!
@@viewpointabroadzhengzhou where Shaolin temple is?!
@@peanut0brain Dengfeng is where shaolin temple is but Zhengzhou has changed A LOT since i have been here. It's really nice!
@PaggosBlitz I’m not going to either of those but close
Not Zhengzhou
Is it really limitless? I feel there was more choices in 2010, you could go to any city. Now you can only go to cities where you got an offer. I'm seeing salaries drop from 2022. I'm seeing science teaching jobs dry up, the Chinese teachers seem to be picking them up, leaving only drama, music, business course positions open, where you have to be the clown, loud and entertaining foreigner. I'm an engineering graduate, I was teaching sciences. It seems more and more terrifying, like homelessness creeping in closer and closer. I see more and more jobs requiring a teaching license now. I don't know what to do.
Right now I’m teaching P.E but I am an MBA holder and a certified fitness instructor. You’re right jobs are definitely paying less than they did and the demand seems less than before but there is still major shortage of teachers and I may be wrong but I believe these changes are due to the shortage of treachery. Less and less teachers are willing to live in China and it seems they have to shift the focus away from foreign education due to the lack of foreign teachers as well as some geopolitical issues. We will have to see what the future holds for foreign teachers but as of now it’s still needed.
All the best wishes to you👍👍👍
Thanks 🙏
Congratulations! Hope you like the new school and the area.😊
Thanks 🙏
Central China, that'll be different! Onward and upward big dog😊
Looking forward to the change
How would a foreigner search for jobs? Are there any English websites/apps that foreigners can use to search?
Yeah. Lots of sites but most just get into job groups on wechat
@@viewpointabroad Hi John! I am a fresh graduate in Mechanical Engineering from France and looking for a job. Wondering how to find WeChat groups?
@@thomaslecloirec7973 if you’re not in any , find some facebook groups. The agents there will invite you to some wechat groups.
eChinaCities and Dave's EslCafe are sites I used to get linked up with WeChat recruiters.
Dave's ESL cafe
So exciting! Good luck on the new gig and I can’t wait to see it and your new place too!
I hope the best for you
That DJI mic seems legit. Thanks man
Yeah. I’m happy with it.
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same here in China also
Can you please make a video describing what makes a good teacher?
Sure 👍. Good idea. Maybe I can talk about that soon.
@@viewpointabroad Dude, awesome videos. Very informative. It would be cool if you had a website where we could book a consultation with you. So you can hear whether we have the English ability to teach or not.
@dannybee6677 maybe in the future I’ll have a website and also offer some free services. Too busy now to sort it out with my job and these 2 businesses I’m going.
Good luck to you, John! Hello from NYC
Good and informative as always!
How about IT jobs in your city?
IT jobs are gonna be in places like Shanghai , Shenzhen , not in these small cities
@viewpointabroad Thanks for ur response
Please make more videos on teaching . Brown dude born and raised in the UK . Looking for teaching opportunities in China.
What sort of schools would you advise ,city and benefits package ?
Thanks. I’ll make more vids related to teaching very soon.
@viewpointabroad i love your content and subscribed after watching my first video. Please make more content . Nearly completed my tefl 120 hours. I have been offered jobs in china . But some recruiters do ask for my picture. Wonder why lol
@@islamicreminders3090 you need to listen to him carefully. He said if you are a WHITE guy opportunities are endless. You said you are brown. You will NOT have the same experience as him. If you want to know how you will be treated and how to find jobs you need to look at youtubers who have dark skin and trying to find a job in China. Even if you may not lile doing that...they are the ones whose experience will likely be similar to yours.
@@islamicreminders3090 you’re Brown dude. Even if you’re brown British, American, they’ll prefer white skin candidacies. I advise you stay in Britain. It’s hundred times better than China
Hi John, just curious what camera are you using? Chinese one? Thinking of buying one here in Fuzhou soon, thanks man, peace.
I’m using a DJI camera 🎥
@@viewpointabroad thanks there is a shop here in Fuzhou, will get one, peace man.
@@biglance no idea , I’ve never been to Fuzhou. Check Baidu map maybe … or dji website. I got mine in foshan
@@viewpointabroad Thanks John, keep up the vids! peace.
Hello! My girlfriend and I are looking to move to China next year to teach English. We both are going to get our bachelors degrees soon and we are working on a TEFL. We are looking for a job each that pays 20k monthly ideally minimum, and we’d love to be in Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou, or Guangzhou, but if we can’t that’s understandable. I am speaking to a lot of recruiters over WeChat and they are confident that they can make these things happen for us, though I heard from one recruiter that what we are looking for is impossible without teaching experience, though that might just be him being greedy, or maybe it isn’t. I have heard from others that we should visit the cities we want with our tourist visas and walk into schools and ask if they have vacancies, as they say this is the best way to do it. Would you concur?
Ps. We have been to Beijing before and we loved it. I am American and she is English.
@@burnteasy it’s easier to get a job if you’re here but problem is you can’t transfer from your to work visa in country. You’d have to go back home. It’s best to find a job from there and process the papers before you leave. Your salary expectations for those cities are actually a little low, you can definitely easily get 25k there minimum max maybe 28 but unlikely since you lack experience. I’d say take the 20-25k work 1 year and get settled in and then search for other jobs your 2nd or 3rd year.
@@viewpointabroad yeah 20k is completely fine for us especially with a combined income. I’ve just heard many people saying that it will be hard for us to get 20k even but I’m not sure what to believe any more as I also hear people saying the opposite 😅
@burnteasy 20 is pretty much the minimum standard for native English speakers. I wouldn’t accept anything less.
I came as a chemical engineer in 2010 and wasn't eligible to teach in Suzhou, Shanghai. Had to start in Xingtai and then Dalian
@@viewpointabroad It depends on how hard you want to work, amount of grading etc. For an easy job 20 is OK. I'm surprised that people want to be lazy when they're in school, and then want to endure discomfort and work hard as adults. We come to China to take it easy, like 13 hours a week, just give an easy lecture, chat to some teenagers, and collect your paycheck, and go riding motorcycles. I was offered 10k for weekends only but it was small children so I didn't take it.
Is it hard to learn mandarin in guangdong?
No , I don’t think so. I learned it without any problems. I never studied either. Just learned from years of communication. So , I do have a Guangdong accent. When I travel to other places in China people always know I came from Guangdong 😭
Hope the move goes smoothly. Another 10+ years in a new location in china? :)
Hahahah I don’t know about that
Can your current employer make it difficult to change jobs if they want?
Nah, they've already gave me my exit paperwork. Just got to finish up these last 30 days.
Subscribed! Nice to see some positive info in China. I'm leaving my job in football at the end of this month as head of video. Ive been looking for media jobs but ive not really got many offers? In Chong Qing, I found a few jobs for foreigners but they didnt hire me in the end even though I visited to find out more. My wife is British Naturalise Chinese.
Any advice? Should I come to China to find work or continue applying? I have a tourist visa for now but eager to find more opportunities. I dont want to teach unless lecturing in university if poss and for media not english.
Any advice would be great, would love to film travel and food around China as my dream job!
You’ll have better luck with your feet on the ground in China. Most want to hire people who are here.
I’m not suggesting to work on a tourist visa , but nothing long with looking while on it. You can go back and re enter on your new visa after you find a job.
@viewpointabroad Thank you so much mate. Once I finish work, I'm going to head over. I really need to improve my Chinese as well.
Hai John.I like your content. Can you share recruiters for teaching in China please I'm from South Afriica.I 've teaching license PGCE.I'll appreciate.
Sure. I’ll make a video about how and where to find some recruiters.
Congrats on the new job. What websites did you use to look for jobs?
I don’t use websites for that. I find jobs through headhunters here in China.
@@viewpointabroad That's cool. Which ones have you had the most success with?
@@samuel-louisbandy2542 lots of them in wechat groups
I am curious about what other jobs are available outside of teaching english?
Depends on your skills and your degree. The job I’m taking is not teaching English but still in education industry
I’m a young (21) native speaker from a native speaking country (Australia). I’m half white and half Latino but my skin is brown. Do you have a general idea of what the opportunities are with this?
It's not difficult to get job as a native a speaker, but having darker skin can often give you a smaller number of opportunities .
@@viewpointabroad do you need a degree? I’m able to get a z visa on the points system with a vocational certificate, and I asked recruiters of schools and they said yea that’s an option and it’s fine
Dude I have so many questions. What is your weekly expenses or a typical week
usually 200-300
@@viewpointabroad rmb?
RMB?
Dollars $
@viewpointabroad wow that's a little high. But ok. Is it possible to live off $400 to $600 usd a month. Not including rent?
Don't leave me😢
sorry bro! see you next year maybe
You mentioned about being a white dude there’s limitless opportunities in China, I’m assuming they like to have diversities in their company? What about being Asian Americans? What types of jobs that are usually looking for foreigners other than the education field?
@@tonyhaoo8146 for other field being white isn’t really mandatory. I have several friends who are black / Asian working as actors in the film and tv industry and I have some friends also working in some big companies doing various things such as H. R. ,copywriters, internal communications ( newsletters and memos ) social media specialist for Chinese companies that handle their foreign accounts on X and tik tok. It really depends on your skills. I know a couple Asian Americans also working in education ( but it’s a bit harder to earn a typical foreign salary as they generally look for white people ) education is the easiest way to get your foot in the door though and then seek other opportunities after you get in.
@@viewpointabroad Hey I appreciate you taking out the time of your day to give me such detailed answer to my previous comment. Best of luck to you!
@@tonyhaoo8146 no problem. Hope it’s useful information.
What about a light skinned American? Is it easy still in China.
Yes
@ will they still be very racist about it? And would I need a degree still?
@ yes of course you need a degree and yes they usually prefer white people for English teachers. They usually hire black people as coaches or PE teachers ( what I do now , PE teacher )
@@viewpointabroad I’m talking about a bachelor degree?
@ I’m talking about a college bachelor degree
Do you use agents? Are they worth it? I’m young and all this stuff might be easier if an agent handles it, but they take some of your salary right?
Agents don't take part of your salary, that was the old way from like 12-15 years ago. that's no longer in practice. Now the school will pay the agent a 1x payment equivalent to the teacher salary.
I faced an interview for teaching English at a university. Being a South Asian... My misfortune
Yeah. No matter how qualified you are if you’re lacking the white face. More trines than not , they’ll choose a lesser or under qualified white non native over even a native English speaker with an Asian face. 😭
Bro, your video has been moved to a Chinese website and there are many comments. Perhaps you can create an account in China?
Where is it , bili bili ?
@@viewpointabroad Yes, but it seems that TH-cam cannot directly publish website addresses
The title of the video is:美国人在中国14年遭遇过的种族歧视，差点崩溃飞回老家
@@viewpointabroadI am Malaysian, but I can see that they are not very friendly towards overseas TH-camr, so you need to be careful，I don't know how much you know about the younger generation of China, but they are unfriendly to foreigners on the Internet
@@onion9387 thanks I’ll try to find it
@@onion9387 yes. The younger kids have access to western media now and they are also swayed by the western negative news about China. Creates a divide.
Congratulations
Thanks 🙏
Hello John i m non native have a degree from uk masters in business administration can I get a job
I bet you can get a teaching job teaching MBA at a Beijing or Shanghai university! I knew a German girl 20yrs ago who had a new job teaching biology in Guangdong province! She don't speak Chinese, only German and English!
@peanut0brain so I can get any subject job related to finance or economics
Yes you’ll be able to get a job for sure. It will be harder to find via online. It’s better to be in the country first then find the job. You’ll have to go back home to process the paperwork. If you’re lucky the employer will pay for that though. I have lots of friends who are non native English speakers who are working here.
Can I have your we chat or wtsapp please if you won't mind
Thank-you so much cheers
Yup. If you're black or brown, more difficult HAHAHA
Anyway to contact you directly, whether by email or WeChat?
My email is on the about page
wait a min, dont tell me that you are going to changsha? cause I am here now.
Nah. I’m heading a little more north
@@viewpointabroad I will start my travelling -living life three months later. living every city for few months in coming years. no matter which city you will be, let's meet when I get there some day.
@@nicksonredfield3925 nice! looking forward to it.