A ready-made prompt that sweeps every ESL title variant on Indeed at once — ESL teacher, English teacher online, TEFL instructor, ESOL teacher — then reports the learner ages, the timezone window, and how the role is actually paid.
Indeed ranks by relevance to the query you typed, not by whether the learner timezone overlaps your morning or the pay is hourly rather than per learner sold.
A company teaching English to learners in China needs teachers available at 6pm to 10pm their time. A corporate programme in Spain needs mornings your time. Both post as "remote ESL teacher," and the required availability is buried in the schedule paragraph where a search result will never show it to you.
TEFL, CELTA, or TESOL is required for the large majority of online English teaching roles, and a degree is a condition for several others. That is genuinely good news when you hold one, because it puts you ahead of most applicants, and genuinely blocking when you do not — either way it is stated in the qualifications list rather than the title.
Some roles pay a flat hourly rate for lessons taught. Some pay per learner enrolled, which means your income depends on retention you do not control. Some are per class in a fixed weekly schedule. The three are advertised at similar rates and the difference is worth more than any other detail in the posting.
Copy it once, paste it into Zaira, and it runs the entire ESL search: it fans out across every English teaching title variant, checks credentials and learner ages against yours, then delivers only the roles worth your time.
Three stages, one goal. Zaira runs the ESL search on a schedule, so the only thing left for you is to read the matches it surfaces and apply to the good ones.
Both are columns in the results table. In online English teaching they are the two facts that decide whether a role is sustainable, and both are stated once in the body of the posting — which is exactly the part a single search result never shows you.
A large share of remote English teaching is posted as "corporate English trainer," "online English teacher," or by language schools that never use the word ESL. Running every variant at once is how the agent surfaces the corporate and academy seats a single "ESL teacher" query misses entirely.
Enrolment-based and retention-quota roles stay in the plan and get classified, so they appear as sales rather than as an hourly teaching job with a commission clause. Both can be good work — you just want to know which one you are looking at before the trial lesson.
The practical questions people ask before setting this up.
Anyone hunting for remote English teaching roles on Indeed who is not finding them with the search tools Indeed already gives them. That usually means you search "ESL teacher" and get sales roles or a timezone you cannot work, you hold a TEFL or CELTA and want roles that value it, or you teach specific learner ages and want the work to match. It is not built for in-person or classroom ESL teaching.
ESL means English as a Second Language and is a statement about learners: they are acquiring the language, usually as a second or additional language, and the teaching is built around fluency and communicative ability. "English teacher online" is a broader label that can mean the same thing, but is also used for native-speaker instruction, exam preparation, and business English for advanced learners. The distinction matters because the required credential, the learner age, and the curriculum all shift with it.
You can search Indeed yourself — the difference is breadth and repetition. A good ESL search is twenty to thirty distinct queries across teacher, instructor, trainer, learner age, and credential variants, with no filters on the first pass. Doing that by hand takes an evening and you will not do it again tomorrow. An agent runs the whole set at once, and the schedule in the prompt means it runs again for you every morning and reports only what is new.
Zaira reads Indeed through Indeed's own official MCP server — the permissioned connection Indeed offers to approved AI partners, not a scraper. There is no shadow account and no spoofed browser; the search happens inside the access your Indeed account already has, and you can revoke it from your Indeed settings at any time.
Yes — that is the intended setup. Describe the search once, set the schedule, and each run delivers only the new ESL matches with ones you have already seen filtered out. You can point results at Slack, a Google Sheet, or email.
No. Zaira charges per plan rather than per task, so fanning out across every English teaching title variant does not show up as a separate bill. Set the prompt to a schedule rather than triggering it by hand — that way the wide sweep costs you the same each morning no matter how many queries it runs.
The prompt itself does not need one — it is a search tool, not a credential check. What the credential changes is your results: most online English teaching roles require TEFL, CELTA, or TESOL, and several require a degree, so listing what you hold filters a large number of roles out of your results and surfaces the ones where you are genuinely eligible. Some entry-level roles explicitly say no experience required, and those stay in the plan.
Yes. Step 2 reads how the posting calculates pay — hourly, per learner, or per class — and reports it as a pay model column, then ranks hourly above per-learner and flags commission. It also checks for enrolment and retention quotas, which is how an income that depends on sales gets caught before the interview rather than in your first payslip.