Online ESL Teacher for Waijiaoyi
Summary(Review): Waijiaoyi is looking for online ESL teachers to teach children and teenagers. You must be at least 22 years old with a Bachelors Degree or have a TEFL/TESOL/ CELTA certification. You will need to have previous teaching experience online or face to face in one-to-one or group lessons. They have online group classes of 8–30 students from 5 to 16 years old with a class length of 25 to 50 minutes. Teachers will have a fixed schedule and be paid $9 – $16 with or without a student. Prior to starting, teachers receive comprehensive training and coaching to that they completely understand how classes are run. The teacher will be provided with the lesson material 24 hours prior to the lesson. There will be a Chinese teacher-assistant in the classroom with the children. They will help guide the students through the 25-minute lesson. The assistant will also speak English so that they can communicate with the teacher.
Job Overview for Online ESL Teacher
Pay Rate per Hour:
Minimum: $9
Maximum: $16
Class Size:
one-on-one
Student Ages:
Elementary & Junior (age 5-15)
Class Schedule:
Evening (6pm-9pm)
Job Details for Online ESL Teacher
Accent(s):
Native North American
Native UK
Native Australian/New Zealand
Native Ireland
Native South Africa
Degree Required:
Bachelor or above
Certification:
No/Preferred
Years Experience:
1
Min Hours Week:
20
Internet Speed(Mbps):
Min Uploading: 5 MB/s
Min Downloading: 12 MB/s
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Online ESL Teacher Job Description
Responsibility
Conduct VR classes in the studio
Participate in training and group discussions
Record videos as requested
Working Hours and Location
Days: 5 days a week
Duration: 8 hours per day
Location: Beijing, China
Our sample video:
https://static.waijiaoyi.com/wjy2017/xiaoyuvideo/2d4c14a22f36f9265f23cebc89866ed3
Online ESL Teacher Job Requirements
- Job Requirements
• English speakers from the US, UK, CA, IR, AUS
• Age: 25 to 35
• Bachelor’s degree or above
• At least two years teaching experience online or offline
• Teaching Certificates like Educator Certificate, TESOL, TEFL, or CELTA
Online ESL Teacher Salary and Compensation
- Salary & Benefits
• Monthly Salary: 20,000 – 28,000 RMB after tax (3,000 – 4,000 USD)
• Working Z-Visa
• Accident and Medical Insurance
• Weekdays free dinner and weekend food allowance
• Plane ticket fare reimbursement after 1 year of contract
Others:
• Foreigner-friendly working environment
• 11 National holidays granted
• Other paid day-off after summer and winter
• Trips to other cities
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Company Information for Waijiaoyi
Waijiaoyi is a cutting-edge educational company located in Beijing. Our company uses state of the art green room technology to bring a new form of language learning to students across China. Our teachers work in our Beijing studio, in an interactive virtual reality environment. They interact with characters and elements in the classes and engage students through fun games, quizzes and movement. We have been providing online English teaching service to schools and language centers all over China and our goal is to break the imbalance distribution of educational resources, and provide affordable and high-end English classes to student all over China.
teacher says
Waijiaoyi is for avoiding.
oetjobs says
Thanks for the feedback!
Dyani Bergh says
Why is this so?
Woltera says
Good day,
I have been trying to apply for an online. teaching position at waijiao , but I forgot my login details and there is no option to retrieve it. When I email waijiaoy, I only get an automated response. This but it doesnt solve my issue. Unfortunately therefore, I am unable to complete my registration.
Catherine says
Do you mean login details that leads you to your account? Your user name is your full name for example James Bond 🙂 , and the password is waijiaoyi!
Charity says
Hi
i applied about a month ago but yet to get any mail from ‘waijiaoyi’
Kimberly says
They hire a lot of non-native speakers whom they pay around 10-12$ and hour, while most classes will be 25 minutes (5-6$ a class).
A lot of Serbian teachers with pretty average accents…..
oetjobs says
Hi Kimberly, thanks for the update in non-native hiring. How’s the teaching experience there?
Julia says
This company is a total mess and they don’t care about anything but money. They hired 500 teachers from all over the world with excellent English and years of experience, promised good job and big salaries. They told all of them that they are hired, on board. They made them sign the contract and collected all the passport info. Then they didn’t have enough clients for all those 500 teachers and just started getting rid of teachers. But they didn’t tell them the truth, they just told that teachers are not good enoughachers will get job in September, maybe in October, maybe.. just wait .. and maybe .. They still kept the teachers making to do the same trainings over and over again, checking pronounciation etc. No feedback, no support from admins, only lying and wasting the time. They promised to pay for trainings and for the wasted time, nothing. It is a shame for the company, so many people were involved! They do not respect anybody.
oetjobs says
Oh no, we’re sorry to hear that. Wish that they’ll fix it soon.
Gabriel says
Julia is absolutely right! This company is as unprofessional as it gets. Unprofessional is an understatement to describe them. I applied for them in June. They promised me they would find me a job on July 10th. Then they postpone my working date for September.
The excuse they gave me was that my computer wasn’t fast enough which is baloney. My connection runs at least four times the required speed. That was a white lie they told me because what really happened was they overhired and couldn’t get enough contracts.
Many of the other candidates were Serbians, Croatians, and other Eastern Europeans who could barely speak English. I know why they did that – to cut down on their overhead because non-native teachers are cheaper because everything in China is all about winning at all costs.
They then told me I’m going to get a full schedule in September, and then one of the Serbian teachers who trained me told me I’ll be lucky if I get ten hours a week. That right there killed my mojo. I moved on because I lost patience. I’m not going to wait for them to get their shit together and watch them cover their asses because they don’t know what they’re doing. I therefore moved on with another company.
Abe Froman says
I went through the 1st “intensive training” class and that was enough. They literally expect you to prepare half of the lessons and create the material yourself. It’s kind of weird being “trained” by people who cannot even speak English without making basic mistakes (3rd person singular, plural, etc). I think I was the only Native English speaker in the whole group of trainees. After the first training session, I realized why. There are better companies that have a much more consistent product and don’t require the teachers to create parts of the lesson themselves. It’s clear that a lot of the people in the training cohort couldn’t get jobs with other ESL companies because they were not native speakers. Seriously, our Filipino trainers couldn’t even speak perfect English. During the hiring process, if I did not answer their Skype questions immediately, they would call me from China/The Philippines. That’s like 2 or 3 am CST (my time). Also, they use like 3 or 4 different platforms that most people from Western countries are not familiar with (Chinese developed). It’s totally inefficient and their expectations are ridiculous. If you’re a native speaker from The US, Australia, Canada, UK, etc, don’t even waste your time.
Teacher Abe says
AVOID! RUN! GO AWAY!
Where to start. Admins are unresponsive, rude and condescending and not reading messages nor replying, sometimes it took 5 days for any admin to contact me concerning issues I had with classes (which were already done by then).
Salary was regularly late in last few months for almost everyone, because they never can calculate the ammount properly, there are always some issues with it, and by the time you “confirm” your salary, you
know it’ll be late.
Trainings we were forced to take are boring, repetitive and plain stupid, especially for teachers with experience. Phonics training was held by a Chinese that can barely form 2 sentences without making a pause.
If you want to cancel a class 1-2 months from now, you will get a deduction in your salary and that will count as an “affected class”. If you’re terribly sick they will still refuse to reallocate your classes. If you have a class in your schedule, it’s there to stay, or to make you pay.
If you request a cut down in your working hours, they say “we’ll talk in a week or two”, and they simply ignore you. If you request a pay raise, response is usually that the “company does not have money” to do so. Salaries are hugely disproportionate, and are in no way connected to your teaching ability. If you’re blonde and got blue eyes, you’ll get paid more.
Schools they collaborate with will report and complain on your classes constantly, with imaginary problems. Admins will always take their side and will dock your pay. There is a lot more I could write here, but I’m affraid that I’d run out of space to do so.
Simon Jose Rojas Mendoza says
Hello everyone. My name is Simon and I currently work with Waijaoji. I have to say that I’m shocked at these reviews or the experience these teachers had. I won’t call them to question, but from MY own experience, this company has been nothing but supportive, nice and understanding with me.
-When I had internet problems, that cost a lot of classes, I for sure thought they would fire me, but with enough patience they actually waited for me until I fixed them.
– They’re admins are totally responsible, nice, and educated, I have never felt condescended or treated like a child.
– Their response time is actually quite fast, usually between their Chinese work hours, they will respond.
– They offer a substantial amount of training, that can be repetitive to experienced ONLINE teachers, but is well worth your time if you have never given classes to Chinese students ONLINE.
– They want you to teach with a certain “Waijaoji Method” which is pretty simple to understand and extremely helpful for newcomers.
– Regarding to payments: they pay between 15 and 20 dollars per hour, with a raise of 5 to 10 with every 500 class completed.
– If you receive any sort of complaints from the students they will schedule a small interview with an admin and they will guide you and correct the mistake, again in a very kind and thoughtful way.
– They publicly praise you when the Chinese students give you positive reviews.
In conclusion I have nothing bad to say about this company, they have been nothing but kind and professional with me and I feel that these reviews are totally unfair.
Leilah Simon says
A HUGE SCAM 2021!!!!!!! WAIJIAOJI
I am only writing this review to help my fellow TEFL teachers!
It is September 2021 and I worked for Waijiaoyi for July and August 2021.
When I read the reviews for the company there was a lot of negative comments but I thought I will see how it goes.
They call it a probation period the first 2 months of working when I asked if there is any contract to be signed. Once my two months was over they completely disappeared all of the contacts I have been communicating to through Dingtalk, all of a sudden they were not a even a contact on Dingtalk. When I messaged HR Stella she all of a sudden “resigned”. I had the 3 emails, the interviewer Leo, head office and a general info contact details, none of them replied at all. I was on this group chat which seems like a few real teachers contact details and the other numbers on there are probably fake but one fellow teacher said they haven’t paid anyone since June 2021 and they owe some teacher 13 000$
This is absolutely upsetting because WHY KEEP HIRING TEACHERS IF YOU CAN’T PAY THEM.
I even messaged Allysa which was my trainer and she did not reply even though the messages go through.
The recruiting agency was IBESTTEACHERS who sent the company my way and I asked IVY if they would pay because of the negative comments I’ve seen and she promised yes don’t worry about it.
PLEASE DO NOT WORK FOR THEM!