There are plenty of on line English teaching jobs and they do not require a visa unless you are working for a Philippine based company

Suggest you try

www.livingincebuforums.com

They have a large archive and one of the hot topics is English teaching with a variety of contacts. As you do not have any formal qualifications outside of being a native speaker ypu will start at the lower salary scale. Majority of students will be Chinese.

You will need a good laptop with excellent Skype skills , do not let them tell you to use their on line platform, it is a nightmare, use SKYPE, they are used to being told this.

Get your self a headset with attached mic that has noise surpression. Students try to get refunds by claiming they had outside noise interference etc, they succeed you do not get paid etc.

I will send you a pm for call center work in Makati, assuming you are going to be Manila based

The ad in the paper is a formality but to get the work permit your employer will need to go with you for an interview with BOI (again a formality).

If you can find an employer that will hire you they need to basically make the job description something only a British person can do. For example they want to use you to help train staff or to market to the UK.

The hard part will be finding an employer who wants to hire a foreigner. You should look on Indeed, Monster, Jobstreet, LinkedIn and start emailing people. Where in Philippines will you be living? You should find the local BPOs and contact them. Speak to your girlfriend's employers and see if they will hire you.

Make sure your employer will process the working permit and work visas. You will need to be active in pushing them to do this as it is you who will be in trouble if they don't process it. Mine took about 3 months. I am happy to help you if you PM me and i can answer in more detail what you need to do.

If you want to work online you will need good internet, aircon and be in an area that does not have too many brownouts. If you have existing clients/contacts in the UK then that will be better than trying to find clients when you are here.

Use Upwork or Peopleperhour if you are looking for online work. Also LinkedIn. For the first 6 months you will still be UK resident for tax purposes but after being in Philippines for 6 months you should start paying taxes on your earnings, in which case you sould think about setting up a business. For me it is easier to work for an employer as they cover taxes, benefits, overheads, and I get more challenging work and a better social environment than working at home all day.

Teaching English will be set hours and would be teaching Koreans or Chinese people online. Teaching is not a great career here as everyone speaks English and the pay is bad. If you want to teach it would be better to do a TEFL and then go work in Vietnam or Dubai or Russia or somewhere.

I believe that if you are married you don't need a working visa/work permit but I'm not 100% sure as I'm not married. But dont get married for that reason alone! Better wait a year or two before you get married if that is your plan. You are still young and moving here will be a big culture shock so don't rush into marriage.

I think it's a good idea to come here and work, if you can find a job. Try to live off just your salary and don't blow any savings you may have. Don't invest money here in any business or family projects. Don't lend any money. See how you like the place in a year or two. Good luck!

Feel free to PM me if you want to talk about any of this in more detail.

Hope that helps.

thanks for all the responses guys im sorry i never mentioned where i was staying its in Angeles, Pampanga but i know manila and makati area quite well to so im open to anything as of now not cutting any options out please anyone feel free to pm with what ever you may think will help me there is not such thing as to much information, im grateful for all the responses i have had so far i understand alot more now not as plane sailing as i thought but not impossible either.

If anyone can help you get a job relatively quickly, its Mikemike! He hires foreigners for a call centre and is good bloke!

He is indeed he already inboxed me on where and who to contact im SUPER! grateful for all the help ive received, i really didn't expect any replies let alone where to find work!

I'm in Angeles/San Fernando as well. There are hundreds of BPOs in the Clark area and surrounding. I will make a list of companies and PM you over the weekend.

Thanks mate i would greatly appreciate that !

Could someone tell me if BPO's are under the laws for hiring as other companies in the Philippines, like do they have to hire locals before expats that type of thing

Use Upwork or Peopleperhour if you are looking for online work. Also LinkedIn. For the first 6 months you will still be UK resident for tax purposes but after being in Philippines for 6 months you should start paying taxes on your earnings, in which case you should think about setting up a business. For me it is easier to work for an employer as they cover taxes, benefits, overheads, and I get more challenging work and a better social environment than working at home all day.

''If you are working on line and the employer is a Chinese based on line school you will not pay tax in the Philippines as though you are resident you are not a citizen and the income is from overseas''.

Teaching English will be set hours and would be teaching Koreans or Chinese people online. Teaching is not a great career here as everyone speaks English and the pay is bad. If you want to teach it would be better to do a TEFL and then go work in Vietnam or Dubai or Russia or somewhere.

''Teaching can be either flexible or set hours and there will be a differentiation in pay to reflect this. There is a very big demand for IELTS in China. Pay is almost the same as physically working overseas as the Chinese schools save on costs of return flights and accommodation expenses etc. Working for a Pinoy based on line teaching company is slave labour''

I believe that if you are married you don't need a working visa/work permit but I'm not 100% sure as I'm not married. But dont get married for that reason alone! Better wait a year or two before you get married if that is your plan. You are still young and moving here will be a big culture shock so don't rush into marriage.

''A 13 a married mans visa does allow you to be an employee and set up your own business subject to it not being in breach of business restrictions that only Pinoy can work in. We waited for seven years before we got married and the culture shock is still up front and personal.)''

BPO still follow the laws re recruitment but because many are set up as PEZA they have certain exemptions.

I would not worry about this as a foreign business setting up under PEZA usually gets what it wants re personnel.

so working at a BPO seems like a good place to start looking then? im not sure what PEZA is but i think i get what your saying, working from home is not ideal but if push comes to shove so be it ill put in the effort what ever route i choose in the end.The company my girlfriend works for is a indian company that out source to america the where i plan to apply first and then kind of work my way around that area at BPO's and in the mean time try online work while im looking for work and if and if time gets short apply at a call centre and see where that takes me.

hey you said i would need previous experience .... but couldnt i just make that up i mean everyone changes things on their c.v i know its not ideall but i mean for example im mainly interested in Photoshop, After Effects And illustrator wouldn't i just be able to write i did work here in the U.K for some company?

Dear me! Are you saying you would exaggerate on your CV? If you say you have had experience of photoshop etc in UK companies but in reality are self taught don't you think an employer here would want some form of proof such as a written reference from the company in question? As an employer myself, no way would I hire anyone without checking references - at worst I would set up a test to check you can do what you say. If I have misunderstood you then I apologise...............

Oh, PEZA is Philippine Enterprise Zone of Activities. Google it for more detail but in principal , certain types of industry - such as manufacturing for export, BPO (Call Centres) and such can set up in specific areas of the country and get privileges from the government such as low taxes, can employ foreigners in certain positions etc. Similar to the duty/tax free zones in other countries. That's why people such as mikemike can under certain conditions offer positions to foreigners. We have a couple of large PEZA zones here in Cebu for example.

Sorry Quiltman yes i was asking that but im not planning on doing so i have references as i used to work in an embroidery company editing photos for print.. i just wanted to know if i did do it what would stop me? no plans of doing it though haha sorry i should word things a bit more carefully. I have a portfolio but its just a bit of art work i have done myself in Photoshop nothing thats particularly work related other than the fact i can use Photoshop. So i have to now make a portfolio of Mock ups and do some Illustrator work to send it in as a portfolio.

They do?!? Bit daft to considering how easily things can be checked and how most industries are fairly small and incestuous in the UK. If caught, word would get around fairly quickly.