English Gang
English Gang Review
English Gang is based in Thailand. They teach Thai children (aged 4-12) and they want native English speakers with a bachelors degree or 3 years of experience teaching ESL to children. A TESL certificate is not necessary. They say that in rare instances they will hire non-natives who have spent a lot of time in native speaking countries, have a neutral accent and experience. Peak teaching time is 4-10pm Monday to Friday and weekends 8am-10pm (Thailand time) they want you to commit to at least 5 hours per week. They pay $10 – $15 USD per hour depending on experience, the interview and how you do during the mock class
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13 Comments
John Halliday
I have applied and sent several emails to English Gang. They never have the decency to reply to my emails. I have 12 years teaching experience in Thai schools and over 4 years ( 5,000 + classes ) online. But I am not young or pretty so I can only assume they do not employ older teachers. Living in Thailand I know image is more important than experience.
Christine
I applied sometime last year and was disappointed when I applied with them and was offered (what seemed to be) a decent rate of $15/hr, only to read my contract and discover that, since classes are only 25 minutes, it’s really only about $12.50 ($15 per hour x 50 mins paid / 60 mins per hour). I think it’s deceptive to advertise an hourly rate you can never actually make, especially when it’s pretty much industry standard to pay a 25-minute lesson at half the hourly rate. You still you have to do feedback after class anyways, so now you get to do it for free! If they advertised honestly at $8-$12/hr I wouldn’t have bothered to go through the whole application and demo lesson process. Hopefully it’s changed since then, but the whole experience left a bad taste in my mouth.
Sarah
I noticed that the teachers that are singing the company’s praises aren’t telling how many bookings they get per week. They give advice about how to get bookings though. The company is run by one or two guys and a woman, who also work as teachers. Therefore the bookings most likely only go to them. I had an interview with the woman and asked how many students I could average per week. She looked at me quizzically and told me to ask management. Um. She is management. So there’s the answer.
Mark
I’ve been with English Gang since 2019, and I’m quite happy with it. They don’t pay as much as the big Chinese companies, but they do actually make an effort to take care of the teachers. Support is responsive and they actually listen to my ideas to improve things. Rob is the manager and you can actually email with him if you have some issue.
Honest, good company. I’m from the USA, and open times from 5-8 AM weekdays, and get about 3 hours a day on weekends.
Maryann Naude
I have been working for English Gang for about 3 months now and I am pretty happy with them. Rob ( manager ) is always on call if you need to ask any questions or need assistance during a lesson. English Gang don’t pay that much ( 5$ per 25 min classes ) but if you consider that the classes are only 1 on 1 and the materials are pretty simple and easy to work with it isn’t that bad at all. You need to download the Zoom platform and once you get used to using the writing tools you can get pretty creative with your lessons. They have always paid me on time and when I had an issue with my Paypal we managed to sort it out very quickly.
This is a new company but I am happy working for them because I can control my schedule on their site and the work itself is very simple. You do need to do a little report for each student each time you finish a class, this is done on their website and after you teach a student for more than 20 classes you are required to do a little video report for the parents just to give a brief recap on the students progress and areas they can work on and improve.
Advice for new teachers, if you want to gain more students make sure to create an inviting and fun intro video. This will make a big difference to your bookings. Thai people enjoy cute and fun things so don’t be afraid to be a little silly in your video. It will go a long way.
In general this is a nice company to work for and the students have been amazing! You may get a variety of age groups to teach ranging from age 5 – 35 roughly.
Monica
Hey, can you tell me on average how many classes you get a week?
B
Well…..I was hired in January of 2019. I’ve only had ONE class and it’s almost
April. I’m not going to get paid for the class either because it’s not enough
money to go through paypal. I work for 2 other companies and I’ve never
had a problem like this. My recommendation is to stay away.
K
can i ask what other companies do you work ?
Just another online teacher
No mate, just to help you out a tad . . . “despite having an experience”. I think your English is not up to standard and that is why you didn’t get the job.
kv
“Despite having all the necessary qualifications, they didn’t offer me the job.”
That was the sentence used to explain the usage of despite on British council’s website.
Alex
OMG…’An experience’ is the problem!
Rachel
I tend to find that the NNSs that whine the most about the job market, tend to be the ones that don’t have the most accurate or native like skills. Don’t get me wrong; I do believe that recruitment by passport is flawed. I know MANY Filipinos who speak English in a manner indistinguishable from an American (hell, they might have a more extensive vocabulary than your average Joe American), and I know MANY Americans who immigrated here when they were in their late teens, and have thick accent, spotty grammar, and are teaching ESL on a ‘native’ salary due to what their passport says.
But it’s always the people with the spotty grammar who make the biggest stink about the native/non-native market.
Michael
Got my application denied despite having an experience and a bachelor’s degree. They require applicants to be native English speaker from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, NZ & SA — I guess that “rare instance of hiring non-native speakers” is NOT true at all.