Job Placement Service :

As an integral part of our services, ISSO has a language center catering mainly to children, private and corporate clients. We have an alliance with a local prestigious high school, where we offer our highly successful "ISSO Kids and Teens" program. Our company also offers consulting services to local schools in their bilingual programs. Through a local and national network of institutions, we are able to assist and guide our trainees on job placement and job assistance. If there are teaching vacancies open within our company, the job will first be offered to those trainees that have successfully completed our training course.

Colombia has seen a big demand, in the last decade, for English language teaching institutions nationwide. Due to the international trade and the number of international companies that have been set up here in Colombia since the 60’s, the English language has become a mandatory pre-requisite for professionals and students that are going into the job market.

There are numerous educational institutions around the country that have within their academic program English as the foreign language to learn. Bogotá has more than sixty English language centers, including universities. Cali and Medellin have more than 30 centers including universities. There are bilingual high schools (English – Spanish) in every city in the country. In a workshop held by a local chapter of TESOL, almost 1500 teachers attended. Many universities are making it compulsory for their graduating students to pass the TOEFL exam to graduate. There aren’t enough qualified local English language teachers in the market today.

Due to all of the reasons mentioned above, the need for qualified teachers has become an opportunity for many teachers from abroad. Colombian labor law allows an institution to have up to 20% of their workforce from abroad. There are exceptions for some bi-cultural institutions that can have a 100% of their workforce from abroad. This law allows jobs to be offered to people that want to come to Colombia to be certified and to work in the local job market.

Our culture has always been very open to people from other countries and nationalities. Colombians have always offered a warm welcome to people from abroad.

ISSO – International Student Services Org. has been offering job placement services to the teachers that have successfully finished our TEFL teacher training program in Colombia. We have a network of institutions nationwide, where we can offer the services of the graduates of our program. So far we have been very successful in placing 70% of our participants from abroad in the last year. We assist them in the visa process by giving them advice on their contract, the institution, salary paid and what it is mandatory by law to their contracts. The majority of the institutions look for at least a one year contract. We can forecast to place 70% or more of the successful participants of the TEFL training in Colombia’s job market. Many of the trainees are being offered a job as they are taking the course.

The Job Placement Process is the following:

1. Orientation – City and Country
2. Review of CV –
3. ISSO – we look for openings within our center to offer job to trainees
4. Teachers are giving a list of institutions where they can apply
5. Assessment of work visa and process
6. Review of contract offered
7. Ongoing support

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