A really good reference guide for people who are about to do an EFL course or to consider teaching. It's got a few chapters of simple advice and anecdotes, but the bulk of the book is contact details for companies who you might do a course with or gain work with in the country of your choice. Very useful for people who are roaming the globe and planning ahead.

This book has quite a lot of information for those who are looking to teach English in another country.

This book is an excellent guide to getting a job or volunteer position teaching English anywhere in the world. The author goes country by country and offers all the details you need including what the rules and regulations are in each country, what to expect in the way of housing, food, shopping, etc and the best part of all are all of the links to actual programs in each country you can apply to complete with all of the info on what their requirements are. It is easy to choose a country or region, quickly find out what the requirements are in the area, then begin going to the websites of organizations in that area that are hiring and get even more info on each individual program.

If you would like to take on the challenge of living and working as a teacher of English abroad, you will want this excellent handbook to guide you step-by-step.

I just read the 2013 updated edition and it is as good and useful as ever.

I acquired lots of helpful websites through this book - but the majority of the information I need is for Americans, and this book is targeted for those in the U.K.

not quite as helpful as "Getting Out"; it still gives me viable options for how to survive as an American who plans to live semi-permanently outside America. it does give some good information regarding pitfalls and scams

Although I can't judge the effectiveness of this book because I haven't tried to get a TEFL job or course recommended in the book, I can say that it was a well written and interesting tome, which gives you information about pretty much every country you could be interested in teaching in. The things I liked most was getting a sense of how many jobs where available in each country/region, which jobs had the highest pay, and anecdotes (both good and bad) from teachers who had been there, done that.

I also liked that it had schools where you could volunteer (mainly in very poor countries where it's pretty much impossible to find a paying job, like Nepal). I also appreciated that it had more coverage on the popular countries (i.e. China, Korea, Spain etc).

Negatives:

While I really enjoyed the book, look at it's review on TELF Blacklist and you'll see that Ms Griffith apparently wasn't very selective with the companies she included in the book (probably because she gets paid for the advertisement). That being said, she does state (somewhere) that the schools and agencies haven't been vetted, and that the listings are for information only. I think that this is countered by anecdotes in the book which talk about both positive and negative experiences regarding both employers and the country.

I am not sure which edition I read, but this is an excellent introductory book when considering teaching English abroad. With that said, it's not very helpful for non-EU citizens wanting to teach in Europe as nearly all of the legal work there must go to EU citizens. I think it's better to get this book at the library and then do some research online.

Helped me make a life decision....