How to Apply to Work at Home as an ESL Teacher

To work at home as an ESL teacher, it helps to have experience.

Did you know that you can actually work at home as an ESL teacher? An ESL teacher is a language instructor who teaches non English speakers how to speak English as a second language. If you have ESL training and ESL certification, as well as previous experience working as an ESL teacher, there is a good chance that you could work at home as an ESL teacher. (However, it's also worth noting that sometimes people with no ESL teaching experience may be hired.)

When considering where you want to apply to work at home as an ESL teacher, one of the oldest and most well known companies that specializes in providing ESL instruction is Berlitz. Of course you always have the option of teaching on site at a Berlitz franchise near your home. But if you are hired by Berlitz, you may also have the option to work at home as an ESL teacher. Read on for specific tips about how to apply.

Things You'll Need

• Access to the Internet
• Previous ESL teaching experience and certification helps

Instructions

1. Your first step when applying to work at home as an ESL teacher for Berlitz is to visit the Berlitz employment website, http://careers.berlitz.com/.

2. In the upper righthand corner of this webpage, you will see a link called "Berlitz Virtual Classroom." Click on this link. As the name of this program implies, the teacher and student are not in the same classroom, which means that the ESL teacher can teach from home.

3. While it certainly helps to have previous ESL teaching experience under your belt if you want to work for Berlitz as an ESL teacher, it is not always necessary if something else about your professional background indicates to the Berlitz hiring staff that you might make a good ESL teacher. In fact, you will notice at the bottom of this Berlitz Virtual Classroom description web page that there are two different job application links, one for applicants with ESL teaching experience and one for applicants without ESL teaching experience. Click on whichever of these two links describes you and fill out all of the required information to the best of your ability in order to submit your job application and resume online.

4. Be sure to proofread your job application thoroughly before you click "Submit," so that you can correct any errors and submit a polished, error-free job application, which will improve your chances of getting hired.

Tips & Warnings

• You will hear one way or the other from the Berlitz hiring staff about the status of your job application to be a work at home ESL teacher as soon as possible. After one month has passed, if you still have not heard from Berlitz, you may want to call to check on the status of your job application to be a work at home ESL teacher.