Responsibilities：

1. Responsible for developing specific action plans to improve the English proficiency of employees who need to work in English, and responsible for implementing them to achieve expected goals.
2. Make full use of internal and external resources, organize various activities to provide an atmosphere and conditions for colleagues to learn and improve their English.
3. Responsible for helping to modify and optimize relevant English documents and materials within the company.
4. Other tasks assigned by superiors.

Qualifications ：

1. Native English speakers from the UK or US are preferred.
2. Bachelor’s degree or higher in a chemistry-related field is preferred.
3. Candidates with some English teaching experience and TESOL/TEFL certification are preferred.
4. Strong communication skills, teamwork, patience, and responsibility are required.

Salary and Benefits:

1. The annual pre-tax income is between 200,000 to 300,000 RMB, including salary and various bonuses and allowances.
2. Enjoy the relevant benefits of being a formal employee of the company, including but not limited to free meals, free shuttle buses, and free medical examinations.
3. Enjoy the foreign talent policies related to the local policies, subject to the local policies.

Contact：

1. Resume submission email: hr@pharmablock.com.
2. For more information, please visit: www.pharmablock.com or www.linkedin.com/company/pharmablock.

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Teaching without a F.E. Cert. will get you expelled, and possibly fined. Also they are to most critical of hiring a non-white, non-native speaking teacher. The school has to push hard to get work permits.

In private schools parents also feel for the money they are charged they want white, native speakers. It is pure racism. It is not by accident that the teacher’s desks are in a glass walled office by the front door. They are referred to a ‘Dancing Pandas”.

They will hire part time foreign students, but will hang them out to dry if gov’t. officials show up (which happens). They pay for their own protection, but not yours.

While they seem to pay better, they require a 40 hour week, week ends and nights (when student are not in their regular school) and offer fewer paid holidays. I taught 1 Sat. class (at 10 A.M) and 2 night classes in 9 years. The most I ever taught at a uni was 14 hours a week at about 1/2 -2/3 the salary. I had summers free to vacation. (Have you been to Mt. Everest?, Angkor Wat?)

R/T airfare was included. I don’t know what private schools do about that.

In short, I don’t recommend you try to teach under the table. That requires a Foreign Expert Certification, period. Having said that I did often teach private students under the table.

I highly recommend the experience. Just play by the rules.

First of all, I have taught in California high schools for more than 30 years, have a California teaching credential and am at the top of the pay table there… and am the exception to the comments found in this thread. When I took a job in China, I found a fairly lucrative position teaching AP English at a special AP center in a foreign language high school that paid me pre-tax 30,000+ rmb per month, plus gave me a housing allowance, medical insurance (reimbursement) and r/t airfare to California once (and after the first two years, twice) a year. There was also an annual 20,000¥ “completion bonus” after the first two years.

I was taxed at the 24% rate, which was not too painful considering the salary and perquisites I received.

China can be a terrific place to work if you get into the right setting. The Chinese people generally are good to work with (though you may come across the rare odd personality). Play by the rules, particularly when it comes to contracts and visas, and you should do fine. If you make around 10,000¥ a month, you will be able to live well, but try to get a job that pays for your housing, medical and r/t airfare to make it more comfortable. Oh, and be sure to make plans to do some traveling during the 3–4 weeks of Chinese New Year unless you enjoy listening to fireworks going off at odd times day and night for several weeks. Most expats travel at that time … just get your r/t tickets early – and avoid all surface transportation. Good luck.

Language schools

You’ll be teaching a lot at the weekend. My typical Saturday was 9:30am – 9pm, with a break for lunch and dinner. My Sunday was 9:45am – 6pm. Monday is the day off, and during off-peak times you will also get another weekday off. At the weekends, you’ll be teaching kids of well-to-do families. Often they do not want to be there but have been pushed there by their parents, and this can manifest in their behaviour and lack of interest. Not that they are anywhere near as tyrannous as any kids in their situation would be in my own country. But dealing with children is definitely not my forte, so lessons with kids under 14 was pure survival, leaning heavily on the local teaching assistants, who were often working part-time there and studying at uni during the week. My workmates seemed to get on with the little ones better than me, so if you’re good with kids, it’s possible to plan fun lessons and get them on your side. Weekdays are quieter and consist of one-to-one lessons with teenagers or adults, and evening classes with adults. I much preferred those evening classes and bonded so well with my first adult class. They went all-out for my birthday and one even took my measurements and handmade me a traditional qipao dress.

Public/ government university

The students here are just the best. They are engaged, and knuckle down when you ask them to. They have their own opinions and with each new wave of students, more and more are willing to voice them. Whereas when I first started at the uni, students were meek and barely had any personalities, just five years on, they are much more forthcoming and fun to teach. They love a good game but can also get stuck into deeper and more controversial topics. For English majors, they face big national examinations, which are a huge deal, so near exam time, this is definitely their main source of motivation, but the rest of the time they don’t slack off too much either. Some students will continue speaking English with their dorm mates outside of the classroom, which is something I highly doubt language school students or private college students ever do. Small issues come up when I try to correct or suggest anything as an alternative to what their Chinese teachers have drilled into them and it’s easy to feel at loggerheads with them, but I simply make it clear to my students they can do whatever their Chinese teachers expect in those classes, but for mine, I have xx expectations. They seem to totally respect and understand that. Without getting students on board with this, the Chinese teachers will inevitably get the last word amongst students on anything regarding their second/ third/ whatever language, and the native speaker will be dismissed as not knowing what we are talking about. Unfortunately this sentiment is sometimes quite direct and blatant with some Chinese teachers who unashamedly try to push it on the students during class. Luckily I think the majority of students are not as gullible as the Chinese teachers seem to think. Another thing is that, no matter how much you feel like a “proper” teacher in class, you are ultimately powerless on your department. Say you do get an anomalous slacker you would like to fail – it’s just not gonna happen. Even if you get to input a fail grade (which in itself is a battle with the department), said grade will mysteriously change to a pass. It’s fortunate that not too many students deserve to fail.

Private college

Teaching here is pretty much a joke. It’s just a case of showing up, making our salary, and going home. Don’t expect any more than one or two students in a class to engage you like a human being. I have had one student see me patrolling the class attempting to talk with students about the task, who then crouched down – crouched – behind her friend, thinking I wouldn’t see her. It’s hard not to feel insulted by that, or any of the other shit I have to deal with. Faces are permanently attached to phones, playing games or watching films, sometimes with headphones in. Confronting them doesn’t achieve anything. Like language school students, these are generally rich kids. They have no national exams to pass in order to get their major (which isn’t actually a major, but some certificate) they don’t really have to worry about passing any finals either because as long as their parents keep throwing money at the college, the students will miraculously pass. Despite being students of my oral English classes, they can’t – or won’t – utter a word of English, even when trying to make a case for their attendance. It’s either sign language (even when asked to stand up and answer a question), or Chinese. There is nothing to motivate them, least of all themselves. Large numbers of students will simply bounce out of the class at break time, even if they know that I know they do it. Working there full time (luckily I don’t) would be utterly soul-destroying and I wish they could only see how wonderful public university students are.

Now about my experience: First of all, I met too many people with same concerns and facing same problems.

I worked in a city called Daqing for a big chain/franchise company therefore I thought I can’t make a mistake deciding for such a well-known brand. That was a mistake.

• even you work with same conditions you end up noticing the terms and conditions of your colleagues are differing yours. This varies from salaries, office hours, your apartment, treatment etc. Shortly in every aspect. And they’re not small differences.
• They promise you a lot at the beginning and are extremely kind but it changes after short while and you see their real faces: they find a point in which you are weak or are afraid of and keep you ‘in their hands’. They will suppress you making work for them. This will effect your salary, off days, holidays, working hours. You’ll need to comply with their wishes.
• The management lies to parents about you and you have to comply with that as well. Sometimes, I faced awkward questions from parents and found out that the school had been telling those things about me. I tell you, it can be very embarrassing!
• They change things as they feel like: we were called to meetings and all of a sudden working conditions changed, they take it for granted that you go along with everything they change, because in Chinese culture you have to accept what comes from top, without any question. You end up feeling like a slave. I guess this is due to the political regime of the country.
• They lie a lot in order to keep you going. What is in your favor is being put off with lies and wrong promises, but what is in their/companies favor (this will effect you negatively) will be changed instantly without considering that you are an expat.
• Some friends were cut off salaries because of the way they were speaking about or commenting about things and were not paid this amount back at all. (You have to forget about human rights and the western way of thinking and livin in that place.)
• We were asked if we can bring friends to work as a teacher and were promised a good amount of money like 20000–30000 RMB. Colleagues went along and arranged for their friends to come and work. After reminding the owner they were told they can receive 2000, but it must be a mistake, they’ve never promised 20000. Such ‘mistakes’ can happen in every respect easily, according my experience.
• They don’t declare holidays in advance only last second so that you end up not being able to plan for a get away. And they change holidays as they please: another branch had one month summer holiday we had only three days and this including our weekly off day! Imagine…. The winter break during Chinese New Year was also cut off. Putting all the blame either on parents or other reasons. But we used to have a “foreigners group” and were meeting occasionally. They either ignore that we expats are meeting and hanging out with other expats working for other schools or just ignore it. During those gatherings you exchange experiences, of course.
• The apartments they rent for you are in terrible conditions. The buildings are old, smelly and you’ll face damp patches on the walls not only due to humidity but also poor plumbing habits. You have to take into account that you have to live with cockroaches and other bugs. Believe me, I don’t exaggerate, it is as I faced things.

It’s a constant fight to get what is your right. Another important aspect is that only 1 off day is not enough. You end up feeling constantly exhausted.

The city and the people are dirty. People are constantly spitting everywhere. And peeing on streets are very common as well. In summer the stinky smell is killing but also during cold period it’s not a lot better.

When you go to restaurants you see that they eat and throw the rest either on floor or on table. It’s disgusting to eat in that environment. Anyway, restaurants, bars are not like back at home. It’s common that most expats are constantly sick due to above mentioned reasons and the food you eat. When you eat out you have to know there is no hygiene in their kitchen and when you buy from supermarket meat or fish you end up having constantly stomach/gut issues.

There’s nothing to do in that city. It’s extremely boring. I met couples separating, people ending up in depression, because conditions are tough. I would have ended up same if I wouldn’t pay the penalty in my contract. I paid one month salary and left instantly. A friend has kept to his contract and resigned two months prior, but faced difficulties. Which looked at first like they try to increase his salary and give better conditions, but the negotiation period became hard and time elapsed not changing anything. Only his nerves suffered.

On private level, as I stated earlier, I made very, very good friends. I met very kind and helpful people. But working and living conditions were more important to me so I left earlier than initially planned.

I didn’t want to believe it can be that bad when people were speaking about their experiences in China. I had checked online comments, but there were less comments about Daqing. Only when you face things yourself you know what it means… If I can help anyone avoiding making the mistake going there, I’ll be happy.