Looking for jobs in Thailand? You have come to the right page. If you have qualifications or job experience in the sort of business, commerce or industry that Thailand needs, there are hundreds of opportunities for jobs in Thailand.

You do not have to be a Thai National to work in jobs in Thailand.

The Thai newspapers offer comprehensive classified sections on available positions:
Here are some useful links to employment resources in Bangkok.

But what if you are not a civil engineer or an oil field diver?

Let's say a guy or girl comes to Thailand for a holiday and links up with a Thai partner. They want to come back to stay in Thailand but can not afford to live in Thailand without working. What do they do?


If you have computer skills you could operate a web site from your home.
Many foreigners do this. They create their own job in Thailand. How do you make an income from a web site?
Good question to which there are a few answers.

You could develope your own Affiliate Marketing Web Site.
Sell products, information or services without investing one single baht, euro, cent or penny in stock.
You set up the web site or get someone to help you set it up.You don't need to know HTML code to develope a web site.
With an affiliate web site you can make money while you sleep or while you're enjoying the night life. What a great job to have in Thailand. There is a wide range of products and services to promote through your own web site or just emails.
There is a short free tutorial at this affiliates web site and you can link to their products. This is one of the biggest sites that introduces lots of merchants to affiliates. The service is 100% free.
After viewing the above here is a sample of the income you could earn from your Affiliate web site.
Just click this link Webmasters Earn Cash from Desk Top Strippers to view a read out of the potential income from this site which offers another free to join affiliate program.

To view a range of tried and tested affiliate programs you can join just click here.
Our affiliate program directory points you to some of the best companies on the internet that invite affiliates to promote their products.
Engaging in this kind of work is challenging and interesting.
You will be your own boss and can work in your PJ's or nothing at all.

This said to be a successful affiliate and earn thousands of dollars each month you will need to be dilligent and learn about the market.

Rosalind Gardner began her online affiliate business in 1998. She has written the

Sell your own product on the internet..
If you have your own product to sell you have more control over what you can earn.
How do I collect money over the internet?
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Website Hosting
To set up a web site you will need a host. The host is a service provider company which will rent you some digital storage space on its servers. There are many free hosting services but most of these will want to place advertisements on your site. The adds could take customers away from your website.

It is better to pay a hosting fee then you have full control over the content and advertising on your website. Good quality hosting service fees start at around $5.00 per month. You will also have to register your website name. Registration can cost from $6.00 to $17.00 per year.

If you plan to publish more than one website we advise you to find a host that offers multiple domain ( website) hosting. Because of the increase in traffic (visitors to the website) Your Pattaya was transferred to a host that offered instant support service, large storage (lots of Giggabytes), hundreds of giggabytes of bandwidth ( traffic ) and all the necessary e commerce programs included for a very very reasonable price. When you are starting out on a new website you need a host service with great support. The hosting service we use has got everything and lots of hosting plans starting from $2.00 a month.

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If you think setting up your own website is too much of a chalange then here is an opportunity to have your own pre made money generating website. The site is set up with a marketing plan and free tutorial.

Another option is to market your own digital product. Your own digital product could be created by you or a third party. Information sells on the internet if you have experience in a particular field or topic you could offer your experience to others through an ebook downloadable from the internet. There are several online merchant representatives who will list your product for you and take care of the the on line transactions and downloads.
Click Here to view one of the largest on line e commerce market places which offers this kind of service world wide.

When you develope your own product you will need to put time and effort into launching your project. There are many internet gurus who offer advice on how to promote your product to the world wide web but we know one who has vast experience with product launching over the past ten years. His name is Jeff Walker and he offers some free advice for newbies to the internet market as well as a professionally outlined internet market plan which will help grow your business.

Here is yet another way to survive in Thailand. Try selling items on eBay.
My Thai partner sells Thai clothing on eBay and is slowly growing her business day by day.
She has lived in Europe and Australia and has a good eye for the kind of clothes women from those countries would like to wear. It takes time and is labour intensive during the photographing of items and listing time. She calls her business "thai-plus".

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• All the schools have had to increase the number of English teaching staff at elementary and kindergarten level.
• The Universities often teach their subject in English , so a department is needed to improve the general English usage of both staff and students.
• There is a rapidly increasing number of private English Language schools and colleges.
• The advent of Internet and computers in general has created an increased awareness amongst Thais of the need to learn and understand 'the language of the computer'.

To teach English in Thailand the Minimal qualifications are a bachelor's degree in English or Linguistics. If the degree is in some other field, some kind of ESL or TEFL credentials, as well as being a native speaker of English, are required.

" But, I'm not an English Teacher ", I hear you say.There are broadly two routes you can take to teaching English in Thailand.

Top private language schools such as Stamford College usually recruit experienced and qualified teachers from countries like England, Australia and the USA, but there are probably just as many vacancies for less experienced teachers.

Having a TEFL certificate (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) helps, so you may consider taking a course back home in your own country first.

It is not impossible, however, to become a teacher in Thailand without qualifications or experience if you have the spirit for it.. It is important that you enjoy teaching and can make your students happy. Thai students love to have fun while they are learning. An understanding of Thai culture and customs is necessary.

Update December 2006
If applying for a NON IMM B visa for the purpose of working in the education sector you are now required to obtain a clearence letter from the police department in Bangkok or police department in your own country. This letter will verify that you are not a kown terrorist or pedophile.

So where do you start?

1. Experienced Teachers. You should know what to do. Check out advertising in The Bangkok Post and The Nation , both of which are English language newspapers published daily in Thailand. Try AUA .
For the most comprehensive job listings for teachers in Thailand try Ajarn.com

2. Less experienced or no experience. What should I do? Writing letters is NOT the way. You need to meet the school or college principal face to face. But do prepare a CV. So on your next trip to Thailand check out the schools and colleges in the area you wish to stay. There are lots of small privately owned schools which offer jobs to English speaking foreigners.You might be pleasantly surprised.

If you have no experience or are not qualified then do your potential students a favour and acquire some basic skills and knowledge through reading and taking a TEFL course. Here is a link to a few books which can be purchased on line and are well worth reading to help you with your teaching job in Thailand..
Teaching English Books

However we highly advise you to take a TEFL course.

Visas and Work Permits

If you get an official post at a major school or university your visa and work permit will be arranged for you. This could take some time depending on the relationship that your pending employer has with the MoE [Ministry of Education] Some schools have poor relationships with the MoE and need to jump through numerous hoops to get their teachers legal. Other schools have good relationships and find the whole process fairly painless.

If you are coming to just 'take a look', just turn up as a tourist and do your research. If you decide to take a job, then that's the time to think about getting your passport sorted out. However you will have to leave Thailand to get your NON Immigrant "B" visa.

To work legally as a teacher in Thailand you will need a non-immigrant visa category "B" , a work permit and a teachers licence. You get the visa from a Thai Consulate outside Thailand and the work permit from the Labour Department in Thailand, usually situated in the provincial capital, within easy distance of your place of work. The teachers licence and work permit should be arranged by the school.To get the Visa you need some kind of contract of employment or at the very least a letter from your prospective employers. Many schools do not actually know how to get licenses and work permits for foreign teachers, or do not have a member of staff who has ever done it. In this case things can get very drawn out with the application being postponed indefinitely.

Tip: Always keep a copy of all the documents associated with your legal status in Thailand. You might want to leave your job and find another job in Thailand. You will need to reference your original documents. If you have a misunderstanding or fall out with your initial employers then they may play some silly games like withholding or misplacing important documents.

Conclusion

If the Thais like you and you like them you've probably got the job. Thais outside Bangkok can be a little shy of foreigners and also remember that although they're often depicted as fun-loving, happy-go-lucky folk (which they often are), they are also very strong-minded and have struggled for centuries to preserve their spirit of independence. The Thais are a proud and independent race of people. But perhaps more important, don't be afraid to try. If you really want to have a job in Thailand, you've got to start somewhere. Taking the personal approach (visiting your potential employer) will give you a better chance to secure your job in Thailand. Good Luck [ CHOK DEE ]

Links

TEFL Jobs in Thailand
Getting a Thai Driver's Licence
List of Resource Books For Teaching
Digital Camera Dollars

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