Live, Work & Travel in Southeast Asia
Top Sites
Travellers Worldwide - Short term voluntary projects in many countries throughout Asia. 100’s of projects to choose from including teaching, conservation, care and community, work experience, cultural courses (like meditation). Full support provided - you choose dates.
Tales of Asia - A highly rated guide to Asia that started as a preblog blog about Cambodia, got ambitious, and is now so much more.
Employment
Employers, Agencies & Placement Services
Amari Hotels - Hotel chain in Thailand. Some jobs, such as Italian chefs and general managers are available to non Thai nationals.
BENZHI - Provides EFL / ESL teaching job opportunities through independent employers in China, Hong Kong, Korea, and Taiwan. In addition, they provide useful resources, forums, articles, and advice to assist teachers in obtaining the perfect EFL / ESL related job in Asia.
Council Exchanges - CIEE will place you as an English speaking teacher in a Thai school for 5 or 10 months, whichever you prefer. You will be paid a local salary, receive free furnished accommodations and most utilities will be provided by your host institution.
ECC (Thailand) - The largest English language training institute in Thailand with over 50 branches throughout Thailand (both Bangkok and upcountry). Teachers should be qualified (CELTA/Trinity) and have a bachelor's degree.
English First Indonesia - English teaching jobs in Indonesia and other countries.
Robert Walters - Banking and finance temp and permanent vacancies in Singapore.
St Stephen's International School - Thai school.
Thailand Experience - Native English speaking students and graduates are required to teach English in Asia as part of the Teach Thailand program. A placement fee is required but the placement comes with a realistic salary. Placements are offered in either Bangkok, Chang Mai or Hat Yai: working with children, teenagers or professionals, you may be teaching at primary or secondary schools, community or business colleges. All these places offer a different living experience and you may have the opportunity to exchange with another student after three months of your program. Programs are also now available in Vietnam and Cambodia.
Yoga Cambodia - Occasionally employ yoga teachers to teach for at least three months in Phnom Penh. As well as teaching expatriates, teachers will have an opportunity to become involved with their programmes teaching yoga to disadvantaged or vulnerable Cambodians.
Employment Resources
Advice & Useful Sites for Finding Work
Ajarn.com - An excellent guide to living and teaching in Thailand. The site includes information on jobs, TEFL courses, red tape, accommodation, schools and many other issues of relevance.
Chiang Mai University Language Institute - Thai language courses, TEFL certificate training and jobs for English teachers, editors and translators. They can also help with volunteer work for a fee.
EFL in Asia - Information about teaching English in Asia (Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam China, and more).
Island TEFL - Located on the island of Koh Samui, Thailand, Island TEFL offers a rather pleasant location to gain a TEFL qualification. They offer two separate packages: either a four week TEFL certificate course or the course plus a one month volunteer placement on Samui.
ITC - TEFL certificate courses in Bali.
John's Life in Thailand - A series of short articles about John's experiences, thoughts, and feelings of living in a foreign country.
Phuket Delight.com - For living and working on Phuket, Thailand. Offers resident insider information on EFL employment, costs, housing, shopping, the best beaches and restaurants and more. Includes a section on teaching English and about TEFL schools in the area.
Sandbox Advisors - A career management and human resource consulting firm in Singapore that empowers people to achieve optimal levels of enjoyment and success in their careers.
The Stickman's Guide to Bangkok - Living, teaching English and naughty nightlife in Thailand.
TEFLAsia - A site devoted to the acquisition, training, and placement of skilled teachers in SE Asia.
Text and Talk Academy - Thai school offers a recognized TEFL/TESL certificate. Teaching work is also available to TEFL course students.
United Language School - A division of United Educational Consultants offering TEFL training all year round in Bangkok, Pattaya, and Phuket. They help their students with job placement in Thailand.
Gap Year & Voluntary Work
Unpaid Positions & Adventure
Christina Noble Children's Foundation - CNCF helps Vietnamese children in need with education, medical care, social opportunities, and job placement. Experienced volunteers over the age of 21 and able to stay for three months are accepted. Volunteers must be entirely self funded. CNCF also operates in Mongolia.
Coral Cay Conservation - Conservation Volunteers are wanted to protect and manage threatened marine & forest environments.
Development and Education Programme for Daughters and Communities - A non profit community based NGO working in Thailand on the prevention side of the trafficking of women and children into the sex industry. There are approximately six foreign volunteers at any one time who stay for six months or more. In the past DEPDC has had volunteers who taught English, handicrafts, origami, basic computer skills, run activities for children and dealt with English correspondence.
Elephant Nature Park - This nature park in Thailand needs experienced volunteer vets but also offers opportunities to student vets and to animal helpers with no previous experience. Tasks include assisting elephant keepers with bathing the elephants and general duties around the park.
Green Gecko Project - At Green Gecko, Siem Reap's street kids can eat a hot lunch, attend an English class, play and get a hug, get their hair combed and receive medical attention. Volunteers with skills, experience or ideas that they are willing to impart to the Khymer staff are most valuable. Minimum one month commitment.
Learn In Asia - Scuba diving internships in Thailand for the professional and seasonal scuba diver looking for dive work. Also information on travel and diving in Thailand.
Life and Hope Association - Have a number of active programmes which aim to improve access to education for the vulnerable and disadvantaged youth of Cambodia. Volunteers can help by teaching English or at the head office or onsite at their projects. There is also the option of donating the funds needed to build a house and, if you want to, help build it too.
Neary Khymer - Neary Khmer, which means Khmer Women, was founded in 1999 to help educate and empower Khmer women in the poorest communities of Siem Reap, Cambodia. The website carries no information on volunteering but they are partnered with the Omprakash Foundation who state: "Individuals with experience and training in issues of health, nutrition, and/or sustainable agriculture are encouraged to consider volunteering at Neary Khmer. Proficiency in the Khmer language is ideal but not necessary".
Openmind Projects - Volunteering programme. Teach English, computer and other skills at schools, orphan homes or eco resorts in Thailand and Laos.
Orangutan Foundation - This charity is uniquely involved in the protection of the Orangutan and it's Southeast Asian rainforest home. Their volunteer programme lasts for six weeks and includes hands on conservation fieldwork in the orangutan's natural habitat. Another programme, The Red Ape Challenge, involves raising a minimum of £2750 for a close up view of the Oranutan home in Tanjung Puting Park, Borneo.
Peace Brigades International - PBI has branches in 15 countries and recruits volunteers to act as international observers and to accompany local human rights activists in conflict areas. They began working in Guatemala in 1983 and have run projects in El Salvador and Sri Lanka. Currently, PBI are operating in Columbia, Indonesia, West Timor, Haiti, Mexico and the Balkans.
P J Scuba Diving Co Ltd - Candidates have the opportunity to study scuba diving to instructor level and then teach in Thailand, Vietnam or Cambodia upon graduation. There is no entry qualification apart from good interpersonal skills and the ability to swim. Included in the price is accommodation, insurance and one meal per day plus a full set of scuba diving equipment, all certification fees, manuals, training aids and full training. On completion of the internship program PJ Scuba assist you to find work in S.E. Asia. The internship program is ongoing and can be joined at any time convenient to the candidate. They also offer additional specialty courses free of charge tailored to the individual needs of the applicant such as underwater photography, marine life studies or deep diving.
Planet Care/GHAP - A non profit organisation working to improve the well being of communities in crisis, both locally and internationally, through the provision of health and public health services, capacity building, and resource enhancement. Each year, Planet Care/GHAP accepts a carefully selected small group of interns them with their programmes on Thailand's Burma borders. They typically look for a six month to one year commitment, a public health or medical degree, and prior international experience.
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