LanguageCorps Flagship Programs: Asia & Latin America

Description:
Interested in living in, working in, and learning about a new culture?

As a LanguageCorps English Teacher in the Flagship program, you receive TESOL certification, a guaranteed paid job, and unique training and support services empowering you to thrive as a professional abroad.

Flagship Programs available in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Thailand, Vietnam, & China (program fees and pay vary by country).

Learn and apply new skills while developing a wider, first-person perspective about the diversity of cultures and populations around the world all within the security of a guaranteed paid job, a highly organized system, and a supportive community.

Highlights:
LanguageCorps' Flagship Program has been designed to give you the skills and abilities to confidently live in a new land.

The goals of the program are to:

- Help you create a rewarding experience living in, working in, and learning about a new culture
- Teach you new skills
- Lead you toward the development of a wider, first-person perspective about the diversity of cultures and populations in a new and different part of the world

To help you accomplish these goals, LanguageCorps provides extensive training and orientation, job placement, and ongoing logistical support.

Training and Orientation

Four weeks of TESOL training and certification
- Language and Cultural Awareness Training designed to:
    1. Give you the local language skills necessary for daily life
    2. Put you in the learner's seat, re-acquainting you with the struggle to acquire a new language
    3. Let you be part of the learning process
    4. Provide a major cultural overview and orientation to local customs what's polite and acceptable, how to fit in, the importance of making an effort toward understanding, etc.

- Excursions: During your TESOL training, LanguageCorps will frequently escort trainees on multiple excursions, to explore different regions of the host country and to provide valuable experience in living and traveling in the host country.

Job Placement

Following TESOL training, LanguageCorps offers three job placement options:

    1. The first features guaranteed job placement at a select school within our primary focus area. Assistance included as needed and requested: resume development, scheduling interviews, transportation to interviews, job selection, school contracts, and housing.

    2. Job-placement assistance in other, specific areas. LanguageCorps staff/alumni living in other regions are often available to assist you in finding a job. If you fell in love with a certain area during the country exploration trips, LanguageCorps will work to help you find a job there.

    3. Explore a new region, using the skills you learned in LanguageCorps training. Create your own, unique experience trusting that LanguageCorps advice and support are just a phone call away.

Ongoing Logistical Support

- Airport pick-up and transportation to the Training Center
- Comprehensive health insurance and medical-emergency evacuation coverage for a full year
- Accommodations during the four weeks of training, and until you have secured a job or for one week following training should you choose job-placement options 2 or 3 (see above)
- 24/7 Corps Advocate emergency support for a full year
- All fees to obtain the initial visa for assignment country, and visa document preparation assistance, including Ministry letters where needed. (Visa renewals are often paid by your employer; not included in Costa Rica.)
- LanguageCorps group "get-togethers" throughout the year
- "Stay In Touch" package that includes a personal, international cell phone with paid initial phone time, pre-programmed with the Corps
Advocate's number, as well as internet access at the Training Center or a local café
- Pre-departure Information Package including a guide book, country facts, packing suggestions, vaccination information, etc., and personal assistance with pre-departure details and questions
- Career-oriented re-entry package to help market your international teaching experience and enhance your resume

Qualifications: Successful LanguageCorps teachers are true global citizens. They embrace opportunities to share their own cultural identity with others, and to immerse themselves in new and different worlds. While neither previous teaching experience nor foreign language skills are required, all LanguageCorps teachers must possess excellent native-level English, a college degree, a valid passport; and must complete an application, interview, and background check.

Minimum Education: Bachelors

Salary / Pay: Pay varies by country

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to American, Australian, Canadian, European and Kiwi Participants.

Participants Travel to - Multi-Country Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently

Application Process Involves:

• Phone Interview
• Written Application

Post-Program Services Include:

• Alumni Network
• Exit Debriefing Abroad

LanguageCorps's Mission Statement: LanguageCorps' mission is to offer participants a rewarding experience living in, working in, and learning about a new culture; affording them a unique opportunity to learn and apply new skills and challenging them to develop a wider perspective about the diversity of cultures and populations around the world.

Year Founded: 2002