I am writing this blog simply to warn as many people away from Oxford Seminars as possible. Oxford Seminars is a TEFL certification course. It is 60 hours of teacher training. Unfortunately 60 hours is half the minimum requirement most schools are looking for. Oxford seminars also doesn't give you any real teaching experience which pretty much every ESL employer is looking for.
There are many different options in regards to ESL certification courses and you shouldn't go with Oxford Seminars. Their instructors are horrible, they essentially charge you $1000 for nothing but a waste of your time. Also Oxford seminars offers teacher placement after you complete your training. This service is almost as much bullshit as the course itself. The people who work in the teacher placement service can take a few weeks to get back to you and mostly give you bullshit advise instead of sending you information onto ESL schools.
That is because they have hardly any schools to send your information to. I wanted a job in "Latin America" which can be considered to include every country Mexico and south of Mexico. They had about 4 schools they could send my info to in regards to a whole continent and a half. And they don't have long established or even close relationships with these schools, they simply send your information along as you could do yourself. After losing faith in Latin America I asked for my info to be sent to Korea and all they could do was send it to a recruiting agency in Korea. I could have contacted a recruiting agency on my own
But any way Oxford Seminars is a scam, save yourself the time, money and the bother and go with a more respectable TEFL certification course, one that properly trains you
