Est. Hanoi · 63 provinces · 1,400 partner schools
Every school in Vietnam.
Looking at you.
Your city, your hours, your credentials, your experience — all on show in the directory. Schools come through us for the introduction, so nobody lifts your details off a listing and goes around you.
Hanoi · Full time · IELTS focus
Da Nang · Part time · Young learners
Can Tho · Full time · Business English
How a placement runs
Four stages, and you're in front of schools from the second one.
You register
Account, profile, and a private verification pack — passport, degree scans, a selfie. That pack is for our verification team, not for the listing.
We verify and publish
Your profile goes live in the Teachers directory with a verified badge and a reference code. Schools filter, read you, and shortlist you.
A school asks for you
They quote your reference to us. We send you the role, the salary, the hours and the district before anything is agreed.
We make the introduction
Say yes and you're talking to the school directly that day. Say no and we tell them you're not available.
Why schools come through us
The reference code isn't there to keep you hidden. Everything a school needs to want you is on the page — what you teach, where you are, what you hold, how long you've been doing it.
What the code does is stop a centre from copying your contact details off the directory and hiring around us, which is how listing sites lose the teachers they work for. It also means no cold calls at 9pm from places you never applied to.
Every introduction is a real conversation with a school we've already spoken to.
Teachers available this week
A sample from the directory.
Teachers directory
Filter by region, city, hours and relocation. To reach anyone here, quote their reference code when you contact us.
Pricing
Listing is free for teachers. Featured placement is optional. Schools pay when they hire.
For teachers
You never pay us out of your salaryListed
no registration fee
- Full profile in the directory
- Document verification and a verified badge
- Offers forwarded to you, filtered
- Decline anything without explanation
- Delete your profile whenever you want
Featured
per month, cancel any time
- Pinned above every other profile in matching searches
- Gold frame and Featured ribbon on your card
- Included in the shortlist we email schools each Monday
- Verification finished within 24 hours
- See how many schools opened your profile
For schools
Invoiced on the teacher's first day, not on signingSingle hire
per successful placement
- Full directory access with filters
- Introduction to any three teachers
- Verified documents released on hire
- Sixty-day replacement if it doesn't work out
- Work-permit paperwork checklist
Annual
per year, unlimited hires
- Unlimited introductions across all campuses
- Named account manager
- Shortlists built for your terms
- Priority on new registrations in your city
- Quarterly pay-and-retention benchmarks
Prices exclude VAT. Featured placement changes where your card sits, never what we say about you to a school.
About us
We started ESLfinder after watching good teachers get burned by open CV boards.
Our founders taught in Hanoi and Da Nang for a combined fourteen years. Between them they were cold-called by centres that had scraped their details off a listing site, offered contracts that changed after arrival, and asked to hand over passports "for processing".
So the site is built backwards from those problems. Your profile is on show from day one — schools should be able to see exactly what you bring. The introduction is the part we hold, because that's the part people abuse.
We're a small team in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. We place across all 63 provinces, including the ones nobody else bothers with — Kon Tum, Ha Giang, Bac Lieu — because rural centres pay well and never get seen.
What we won't do
We don't take a cut of your salary, and we don't charge you to register or to stay listed.
We don't hold your passport. We scan it, verify it, and you keep the book.
We don't hand a school your contact details until you've read their offer and said yes.
We don't list a school we haven't spoken to on the phone.
The team
Mai Linh Nguyen
Nine years running academic programmes for a language centre chain in Hanoi. Handles school vetting.
James Okafor
Taught five years in Da Nang, then built teacher-supply systems. Handles the directory and verification.
Trang Ha
Works the south and the Mekong Delta. Knows which centres pay on time and which don't.
Contact us
Schools: quote the teacher's reference code and we'll come back within one working day.
Offices
Hanoi
Tang 6, 28 Ly Thuong Kiet, Hoan Kiem
+84 24 3333 1188
Ho Chi Minh City
Tang 4, 172 Nguyen Dinh Chieu, District 3
+84 28 3822 4477
Email
placements@eslfinder.vn
Teachers with a question about their own profile should sign in and message us from the account page, so we can confirm it's really you before discussing documents.
My account
Welcome back.
Your listing
Edit your listing
Changes show in the directory straight away. Your reference code never changes.
Verification pack
Held by our verification team. Released to a school only after you accept their introduction.
Password
Remove my profile
Your listing comes off the directory immediately. Your verification documents are erased automatically after 90 days, and we sign you out everywhere.
Your reference code
Scan or show this when a school, recruiter or one of our staff asks who you are. Every enquiry about you must quote it.
eslfinder.vn/ref/…
Nobody from ESLfinder will ever ask you for your password or your passport by message. If someone quotes your code and asks for documents, check with us first.
Privacy notice
What we hold about you, why, and how to get rid of it.
Who we are
ESLfinder JSC, Hanoi. Questions about your data go to placements@eslfinder.vn, and we answer them.
What we collect from teachers
- Your listing — city, region, hours, years teaching, focus, accreditations, whether you will relocate, and an optional profile photo. This is what schools see.
- Your identity — name, email, country of origin, passport number, passport photo page, certificate scans and a verification selfie. Schools never see any of this from the directory.
- Technical — your IP address at signup and at sign-in, kept as a security record.
What schools see
A reference code, your initials, your city and region, your hours, years of experience, teaching focus, accreditations, whether you will relocate, and your photo if you have chosen to show it. Not your name, email, phone, country or documents.
When your details are released
Only after a school enquires about your reference code, we send you what they are offering, and you say yes. Decline and they are told you are not available. Nothing else releases your identity.
How it is stored
Documents are held outside the public web server in a folder of their own, encrypted. Your passport number is encrypted in our database; only the last three digits are readable, so support can confirm who you are on the phone without decrypting anything. Every time a member of staff opens one of your documents or reveals your passport number, that is recorded against their account with the time and their IP address.
How long we keep it
While your profile is live, and for 90 days after you remove it. After that your verification documents are overwritten and deleted automatically. Ask us and we will do it sooner.
Your rights
- See what we hold — ask and we will send it.
- Correct it — edit your listing yourself at any time from your account.
- Delete it — the Remove my profile button on your account, or email us.
- Withdraw consent for document storage — that means deleting your profile, since we cannot verify you without them.
- Complain — to us first, and to Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security if we do not put it right.
Who else gets it
Our hosting provider, because the site runs on their machines. Nobody else. We do not sell data, we do not run advertising, and there are no third-party trackers on this site.
This notice describes how the software actually behaves. Have a Vietnamese lawyer read it against Decree 13/2023 before you launch — this is a starting point, not legal advice.
Terms of service
For teachers
- Listing is free. You never pay us out of your salary and there is no registration fee.
- Everything you tell us must be true. Faked certificates or a borrowed passport get the profile removed and the schools we introduced you to told.
- Featured placement is optional, ₫450,000 a month, and cancellable whenever you like. It moves your card up the page. It does not change what we say about you.
- You can decline any introduction without giving a reason.
- You can remove your profile at any time.
For schools
- Directory access is free. You pay when you hire: ₫12,000,000 per placement, or ₫95,000,000 a year for unlimited hires.
- Fees are invoiced on the teacher's first working day, not on signing.
- Sixty-day replacement on single hires if it does not work out.
- Approaching a teacher outside our introduction, having found them here, ends your access and the placement fee still stands.
- Verified documents are released on hire, for work-permit paperwork, and for nothing else.
What we do not promise
We verify that documents look genuine and that schools are real businesses we have spoken to. We are not the employer, we do not set salaries, and we cannot guarantee a placement or a work permit.
Ending it
Either side can walk away at any time. Fees already earned on a completed placement remain payable.
Have a lawyer review these before you trade on them.
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