I had to give up this line of work as there is so little work to be had. Signed up for two places which were the only pure business English companies advertising last year. But the quantity of work has been lacking. I think there are either too many teachers or too few courses.
Honest I think this type of job is going away soon. AI in work will remove most reasons to learn English.
Corporations and companies get a better deal outsourcing the job to an eikaiwa, and have moved away from having in-house corporate English teachers.
The jobs went online, and the teachers are now all over the world.
WFH, economy, inflation, belt tightening, outsoucing online classes overseas, AI/app based learning, interpretation/translation tech getting good, socialization decreasing, people travelling overseas less, programs shutting down during the pandemic, schools closing. There are a tons of reasons for it. I don’t think it’s ever coming back either. Not like it’s was pre-pandemic anyway.
The cow has run dry.
Big chains like toshin will have contracts with large companies and yes they do hire remote teachers from abroad for smaller online classes.
They’re either doing it directly or getting teachers online.
At my school (owner), I get inquiries through my website a couple times a month from companies looking for someone to come teach business English at their site. Either I go or I dispatch one of my teachers. And then some of those students want man to man lessons so they come to my school.
We’ve outsourced ours to an online company. Makes it easier for staff to schedule.
Outsourcing aside I think overall demand has dropped dramatically compared to 10-20 years ago.
Google translate, virtual meetings versus traveling to meet, also Japanese companies being less expansion focused all lead to a drop in corporate demand.
A bit sad as China, Taiwan, Korea execs seem to have a much better command of English/2nd languages.
All ours went online during the pandemic. Now our language classes are being taught by natives in the target country. Easy to schedule, more cost effective, and we don’t need to schedule meeting rooms for them to use. We won’t be going back to the old system.
I would also guess that online teaching has made it a ton easier – companies can now schedule someone for a class then put them in something 10 minutes later (no travel time, which would have been a huge problem before).
Also, most places just had their teachers under contract and would give them first dibs before hiring someone else, up to whatever limits there were (IIRC, 20 hours a week).
Yea I haven’t had a corporate class since the beginning of corona…
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I had to give up this line of work as there is so little work to be had. Signed up for two places which were the only pure business English companies advertising last year. But the quantity of work has been lacking. I think there are either too many teachers or too few courses.
Honest I think this type of job is going away soon. AI in work will remove most reasons to learn English.
Corporations and companies get a better deal outsourcing the job to an eikaiwa, and have moved away from having in-house corporate English teachers.
The jobs went online, and the teachers are now all over the world.
WFH, economy, inflation, belt tightening, outsoucing online classes overseas, AI/app based learning, interpretation/translation tech getting good, socialization decreasing, people travelling overseas less, programs shutting down during the pandemic, schools closing. There are a tons of reasons for it. I don’t think it’s ever coming back either. Not like it’s was pre-pandemic anyway.
The cow has run dry.
Big chains like toshin will have contracts with large companies and yes they do hire remote teachers from abroad for smaller online classes.
They’re either doing it directly or getting teachers online.
At my school (owner), I get inquiries through my website a couple times a month from companies looking for someone to come teach business English at their site. Either I go or I dispatch one of my teachers. And then some of those students want man to man lessons so they come to my school.
We’ve outsourced ours to an online company. Makes it easier for staff to schedule.
Outsourcing aside I think overall demand has dropped dramatically compared to 10-20 years ago.
Google translate, virtual meetings versus traveling to meet, also Japanese companies being less expansion focused all lead to a drop in corporate demand.
A bit sad as China, Taiwan, Korea execs seem to have a much better command of English/2nd languages.
All ours went online during the pandemic. Now our language classes are being taught by natives in the target country. Easy to schedule, more cost effective, and we don’t need to schedule meeting rooms for them to use. We won’t be going back to the old system.
I would also guess that online teaching has made it a ton easier – companies can now schedule someone for a class then put them in something 10 minutes later (no travel time, which would have been a huge problem before).
Also, most places just had their teachers under contract and would give them first dibs before hiring someone else, up to whatever limits there were (IIRC, 20 hours a week).
Yea I haven’t had a corporate class since the beginning of corona…