IACC
The International Avenue Consulting Company is a Taichung based agent that places teachers in schools and company teaching situations all over Taiwan.
http://www.iacc.com.tw
They make their money by charging a finder's fee from schools that need teachers. Every once in a while they send me a listing of positions they are looking for teachers to fill. They also advertize in the China Post for teachers.
IACC has received some very bad press on Dave's ESL Job Information Journal.
http://www.eslcafe.com/jobinfo/asia/sefer.cgi?Taiwan check toward the bottom of the list, as that's where most of the IACC postings are.
I have no personal experience with the company, nor have I ever met anyone who has worked for them. They are an agency, and agencies in Taiwan suffer from a series of disadvantages. The primary disadvantage they suffer from is that they are completely unnecessary. While it is true that the market is considerably tighter than it has ever been for new and inexperienced teachers, the opposite is also true; it has never been so good for experienced teachers. If you want a job in Taiwan, you don't need IACC or any other agent to help you. It is typical for agents in such a situation to use slightly coercive techniques to get teachers into jobs and stay there.
It is worth noting that the job postings that the agency sends me do not seem to provide information about the salary. This is a really bad sign. It indicates to me that they could be providing substandard compensation, but hope to draw in naive people with numbers that sound good, but as I said, are really substandard.
I suspect that they have good positions available. It is my experience that all agencies have good jobs that they reward their best or most loyal teachers with. IACC has a lot of work, so I am sure that they have some excellent jobs buried somewhere in this. The problem is that you won't know where it is unless you don't need them to find your own work.
I recommend that you approach a company like IACC with extreme caution. The jobs that sound too good to be true may be just that.
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