Be careful with and a little wary of VipKids, China. They require a video intro., short biography, and passport copy to even apply. The initial interview always goes super well. I think the Recruitment team is trying to fill their department queue to the maximum with portfolios, if this is true. It also takes time for them to evaluate your application, and their multiple means of communication (Skype, email, application account you have to set up) don't get back to you consistently sometimes: you have to check with both of the Recruitment and Ed. departments to be certain that their very short time limits for each stage don't elapse. I fell through the cracks the first time.

The Education Team that follows up on your approved application gives training. But this consists of watching 7-8 hours of videos and skim reading 2-3 hours of reading materials and previewing song tapes. They are, after all, a kindergarten and primary grade school-age school. You have three days for this; sometimes 2-and-a-half (in my case). The the Practicum 1 you have to be brisk (1-2 minutes average) per slide. You also have to memorize their teacher guidance found in the captions at the bottom of most slides (because they appear very small on the VIPKIDS online classroom slideview, as do most things that crowd the page), or be very well prepared to cover their material and their phonics presentation system with its standard letter name/sound system.

If you don't perform splendidly on Practicum 1 (by practicing the teaching unit they supply you for several hours) or, quite possibly, are not found in their projected demographics for preferred teachers at that time (check their YouTube videos for the kinds of people they hire), they may try to weed you out in Practicum 2 by adding a special method or additional teaching requirements not found in their training materials. They did it with me. Still they praised me, recognizing all my preparation and knowledge of their materials and methods, but said I failed. You have to get their strict criteria right 85-90% of the time!

Basically, this is an online school that takes lots of applicants, asks 10 hours of self-preparation out of them, and then hires apparently very few of the applicants - maybe just their targets.