Move to Taiwan?
I'm a 17 year old girl who plan to move to taiwan when I'm 19, right after high school. I plan on move to taichung and go to tunghai university and study chinese. But ofcourse I will need a job. So, is it possible to get a job when your a 19 year old student, foreigner? (I come from Norway, but I speak English as it was my native language)
Taiwan - 7 Answers
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1 :
I think move to mainland would be cooler than move to Taiwan.It`s hard for foreigner to learn traditional chinese .
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Then how good is your English? Do you speak Chinese? You can communicate in English with those youngsters and youth but not to many of the middle-aged and elderlies in Taichung. For finding a job, you can try finding jobs that needs your skill, like interpreter, translator, language teacher, maid etc. You should learn some Chinese before you actually move to Taiwan, cause its much more easier for you to stay in Taiwan. If you need any help on learning Chinese or moving into Taiwan, you can visit more profile and feel free to contact me.
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Technically its illegal for a student visa to work. but I doubt you will have any trouble finding jobs as a female. Most likely you will either end up in a bushiban or kindy getting paid in cash. Make sure you have enough savings to last your first few months and that you can meet the financial requirements to get the student ARC. If your (work) school gets raided say goodbye to your education and your ARC, however. You can also try to get other university students to do private lessons with you at their home or your apartment or at a neutral place in public for spending money as a safer method. The schools here are quite serious about the attendance to maintain the student ARC. To the best of my knowledge the front schools that used to take your money and report you as having attended class are shut for the last 6 years or so, but perhaps with the KMT back in that will restart... to the detriment of our being taken seriously (and our taking Taiwan seriously) If you want to work and be recognized for having taken courses you should get a BA in Chinese from a recognized university... which I am not sure if Taiwan has or not. NTU should be recognized but many others are just there for taking your cash... be aware.
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Let me begin by saying that you are a brave person and have a good idea. Don't let hearsay deter you. Just get the facts. You can go to the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs website for information about the rules. http://iff.immigration.gov.tw/enfront/student.php http://www.studyintaiwan.org/index.php Yes, as a student you have the right to apply for a work permit. You can also work unofficially as an English tutor or in small language schools. You won't have trouble finding work, whether you have a work permit or not. There are tons of English teaching opportunities. You may also find some students who wish to learn Norwegian. For example, if a person is planning to study abroad at a university in Norway, then they would have a very high value on a teacher who is native speaker from Norway and you could charge them accordingly. You're going to love it in Taiwan. The people are very friendly and the crime rate is about the lowest in the world. If you want to learn Mandarin, Taiwan is a perfect choice. I've lived here for 16 years.
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1. what ever you do, don't go to china. quality of life is very low, too though and un-respectfull of youngs especially girls, and chinese spoken there is totally craps anyway. 2. yes, you will love taiwan and it will be wonderful experience for an ambitious young guy like you. people are great, way of life very miningfull & rich. 3. but move to taipei first, and taita university on sheda road. this is the capital, and it will be much better for a start and first 6 months. best of all is not to go to university ( where teacher speak english ) but to smaller local school, where overseas chinese send their kids in summer to learn chinese, like "guo u reba" on roosevelt road, 5 min wall from sheda rd. you can go there 2h a day, after your lesson at the university. 4. as far as i know, you could not get a work permit in taiwan with a tourist and/or student visa, but you should be able to find (unofficial) work as english teacher, easily, that it what every body does.
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Alfajuj, good answer.
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I'm a girl in Taiwan. I'm 17, just like you are. I think it will be quite hard for you to get a job, and the main reasons are : 1. You can't speak fluent Mandarin AND Taiwanese (yet). No shops or restaurants would like to hire a person who can't communicate with the costumers. 2. You haven't finish your college education yet, plenty of college graduates here are unemployed, it's hard to find a "fine-paid" job here unless you have graduated from one of the top five prestigious college. 3. You are still studying and going to school, that kills away a lot of job opportunities because you can only get part time jobs. BUT! A lot of college students here work as tutors for kids younger than themselves. A lot of rich parents hire tutors for their kids, and the most popular subjects that the parents would like the tutors to teach are English and math. Since you are from Norway, I think you have a definite advantage on getting a tutoring job. Teaching kids takes some planning and a lot of patience, but I'm sure you have no problems with that. But, if you are hoping that your job is going to deal with all of your financial problems, then you might probably need several tutoring jobs. ( Most college students tutor only for a bit of allowance to spend, not for dealing with the financial problems.) And don't get tricked, people would want to hire you cheap, but I think you are worth around 600 NT dollars per hour of tutoring. So, the problem now, is HOW you find tutoring jobs. I think the easiest way is to recommand yourself to the people and neighbors you know. Or find a job agency on the net, some job-finding sites are even especially designed for tutors and parents searching for tutors.
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