Oxinity
Oxinity Review
Oxinity <—- (Click here to Apply) is a framework for self-employed freelance teachers to develop their own business. Through the platform teachers can access everything related to both their classes and students as well as their business. Oxinity provides all the teaching materials, as well as all the tools, resources and personal mentoring for client attraction and growth. Teachers using this system have built a community of partners whose professional development is based on sharing. Benefits for teachers include timetable flexibility, guided growth, sustained future development, and participation and support from the community. Oxinity operates in the EU (not all countries), UK, North America, Mexico, Colombia, and Brasil. As self-employed freelance teachers, all members must legally declare taxes in their countries of origin or residency.
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11 Comments
Zoe Furniss
Oxinity offers tailor-made tools to lead professionals to tackle the difficulties of starting a language teaching business. This so-called pyramid system that often exists couldn’t be further from the truth. Oxinity seeks to empower and inspire individuals seeking to build their businesses using sound and secure foundations.
It provides me with an opportunity to grow my business and offers excellent online support and a sound infrastructure. A guaranteed schedule, engaging material and remuneration for cancelled classes. Not only do you learn new skills and see your workload reduced, but have the opportunity to increase your rate of pay based on how involved you wish to be in the project.
As a community, I have grown from within, learning and collaborating with other teachers. Sharing ideas and experiences and creating together. You know the phrase; you always get out what you put in. Never seen anything like this before. I am very humbled by the involvement in Oxinity’s mission. My only regret is I didn’t find it sooner!
Rob
I have glanced through the comments and would like to correct some misconceptions here. I have been with Oxinity 7 months and my experiences have been on the whole excellent. This is not a Pyramid scheme, although you are expected to do some promotion yourself as they dont do it for you ie you have to help get students. They supply the material for you to post on social media sites and you can make your own. Should you secure a student and assuming you are too busy to take on another student you will get a % of earnings from that student, which seems very fair. At no time do you have to pay in. My payments have all been on time and in full. The other teachers and support staff all great and its quite unusual to be part of such a supportive group, not something I have experienced before as an on line teacher. They do have English teachers from all over, with the idea being that in the real world you are going to hear a lot more accents than the BBC. The students are aware of this and accept/ understand the thinking. The lessons are snappy, geared at keeping attention and often take the student out of their comfort zone so they have to learn. The emphasis is on Oral teaching. The material is made and continuously improved by the teachers. They have a compensation system for missed classes too!
There are sometimes technical hiccups in a class but they have a Help Desk on hand to resolve those rare occasions.
Katherine
I have been working in partnership with Oxinity as a self-employed teacher for over six months and I am loving it!
I am part of a friendly and efficient community of experienced teachers and administrative staff. We update weekly through group meetings and webinars, where we discuss creatively about students, materials, or the overall teaching sector. This supportive team spirit is a great bonus when working remotely and solo as I do.
As freelance teachers, not only do we teach, but we are provided with the resources, logistics and mentorship to build a client portfolio and grow our own business. I have learned to write and publish blogs and to connect with people and businesses globally.
Being part of the organization means that the teaching admin workload any freelance teacher has is kept to a minimum. Scheduling is done for you, classes are assigned and paid for (so no having to chase after clients) and reassigning classes is flexible for both students and teachers.
No payment of any kind is expected to join and the pyramids are in Egypt. I certainly have never had pay for anything, and I have always been paid on time which is why I’m rather surprised at some of the comments posted. Oxinity is free and open to everyone who is interested in developing and growing as a teacher and as a professional. This is a project designed for growth – simply join if you want to learn how.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/katherine-elkington-07414337
Bev
I have been working with Oxinity for over a year. I am confused by the description of a ‘pyramid system’ Yes, the idea is for teachers to recruit students, they are then shared between teachers, as is the payment. It is actually a great way of boosting income and collaborating with other teachers. This is far from a pyramid system, which I fully understand and have been involved with in the past (not as a teacher). Teachers recruiting teachers and earning money from their students, could be described as that.
The activities we teach are written by teachers, another way of boosting income.
The system Oxinity offers has been wrongly described here, through lack of knowledge. Having been an online teacher for over 10 years, I can honestly say, this is by far the best company I have been invoved with. The support is endless, I have learnt so much about marketing and business growth and have met some amazing people, both teachers and students alike.
Rachel Suzanne Dorn
Hi Bev,
I was wondering if there was an email where I could send my resume for an administration position at the company.
Thank you,
Rachel Dorn
kingluthor
My experience there was terrible – late and wrong payments every month, and the responsible for payments was lazy and incompetent (she would often `forget` that she had to pay you and make the dialogue as difficult as possible)
The other staff members were friendly and approachable
Rebeca
I just had an interview with a “partner” from Oxinity and can confirm this is a pyramid scheme. You have to pay 150€ to join the community and are asked to recruit students. This for me was a major red flag. Also, the platform with the material they use for the lessons looks like something out of Windows97 software. Avoid at all costs.
Shane Maritz
I had my Interview with 4 others(definitely non native English speakers) 2 days ago and I ‘thought’ it all went well but have to agree with the negative comments from above.
My experience: Interview was 45 minutes of wasting my time plus the preparation time that I had put into it. The interviewer couldn’t swith on her microphone for the first 5 minutes and then when she did there was a terrible echo throughout the session!
Some sort of Pyramid scheme, yes it is! You will have to pay to join it(no idea how much as the Interviewer would not divulge that information). More imortantly as I found out a day later that you HAVE TO BE A RESIDENT TAX PAYER in whichever country you are in and so for true Nomads it’s really a waste of time! This was not made clear to me in the beginning and if it had been clear I would not have wasted my time! In my view still very new and has lot’s of teething problems to work through.
Teacher Kyle
In case anyone is going to apply to this “company”, they interview you alongside other applicants in a group of 6 or 7. You each have about 1 minute to say your piece, who you are, your experience, and why you’re applying. Then they will either pass you or fail you based on that. You will find out if you passed or failed after a one hour presentation about the company and how it works. Why they can’t save that for after you’ve passed is beyond my comprehension.
Like Teacher Liz said, this seems to be some sort of pyramid scheme, but they will paint it as the perfect solution to every problem there is. Except that they need you to recruit more students for the “company”.
One hour of my life down the drain, not to mention all the time spent preping for the interview. My advice; apply elsewhere.
Wayne
I could see from the get-go this was too good to be believed. Pleased I didn’t misuse my time interviewing for these time-wasters. Thanks for the heads-up TEACHER LIZ!
Teacher Liz
To begin with, this is not a company. This is something like a pyramid scheme. In other words, they need to “hire” more teachers in order to grow and you are encouraged to do the same. Plus, you need to be legally registered as a freelance teacher (I am) in your country and show proof of that before you start.
I was invited to an interview, then accepted. Afterwards, I was invited to a series of webinars to receive some training. I did not attend that because after being accepted nobody turned up the date and time they had previously arranged. I wasted 30 minutes of my life waiting for them. Apart from that, my emails were not answered in the begining. Some hours later I received an email simply saying I should book another slot with no more explanation, apologize or whatsoever. I feel it is quite unprofessional from a freelance teacher point of view.