Is there any chance I could teach Excel in Thailand schools? I do not have any diplomas, I do however have an audio engineering certificate, but that has nothing to do with Excel. I can teach them how to make a dashboard in Excel (picture down below). 1 out of 4 people have their own business in Thailand, so learning excel can help.

 

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I worked in a office in Bangkok in the late 90's.  The secretaries had a pretty good handle on excel.  I consider myself to be close to an expert with Excel; but, unless you can read Thai just getting through the Excel headers would be a task.  

 

22 minutes ago, kensisaket said:

I worked in a office in Bangkok in the late 90's.  The secretaries had a pretty good handle on excel.  I consider myself to be close to an expert with Excel; but, unless you can read Thai just getting through the Excel headers would be a task.  

 

Yes there is an opportunity to teach Excel. 

1. business schools - as an instructor or as private study

2. business schools career development department (if they exist!) where the staff are posting job opportunities for new graduates ... it could be offered as a course and paid for by the company doing hiring

3. privately approach the big 5 and other accounting firms to offer this to their new graduates. 

 

I don't know about audio anything ... but in most business excel or google sheets are required and a proficiency or 'certification' would be a money making product / service. 

 

Excel changes, like anything else. I was an expert but switched to google sheets and my use decreased as I had staff doing the work for me. Decade later I find myself not so great in Excel but more than proficient in what I need to do now. I am not building 10 or 15 worksheets and linking them, doing pivot charts and the rest. 

 

In conclusion, I think you, the OP, are on to something here. Most Thais in work force have English proficiency to learn Excel. Also, Excel is often used to analyze things, which is a skill that most Thai workforce are lacking.

 

Approaching the companies managers and asking them what Excel skills their staff require is a good starting point. Build your course around specific industries functions and BOOM you have a niche product.  

Excel is widely used in businesses in Thailand, but most not on an advance level.

I would imagine finding a job in schools will be hard if you don't even have a diploma.

 

So its best to sell yourself to businesses in getting their employees more qualified. Create courses to cater to different industries and set up  2 day, 3 day, or 5 day courses for businesses.

"1 out of 4 people have their own business in Thailand, so learning excel can help." 

Well, I didn't know that. You've already started your Thai career. You just taught me something.

I'd be interested in knowing where you did your lesson research. 25% of Thais own a business. I think if you included motorbike taxi riders, taxi drivers, mum & pop shop owners & the like, your 25% would be far off the mark.

But hey, just my opinion.

Did you think to Google 'Excel Courses Bangkok' ?

Lots of places you could approach to see if they want English speaking instructors.

Good luck.

57 minutes ago, malt25 said:

"1 out of 4 people have their own business in Thailand, so learning excel can help." 

Well, I didn't know that. You've already started your Thai career. You just taught me something.

I'd be interested in knowing where you did your lesson research. 25% of Thais own a business. I think if you included motorbike taxi riders, taxi drivers, mum & pop shop owners & the like, your 25% would be far off the mark.

But hey, just my opinion.

 

Even if they are just buying things in the wholesale markets and selling them via Facebook and Instagram (which a hell of a lot of people do), knowing how to use excel to track costs, orders, stock etc would help them quite a bit.

It may not be 1 out of 4 people that have their own businesses but you'd be surprised how many Thais have online businesses.  You'd also be very surprised how much money some of them make.

 

I once had a project where we needed a excel sheet with some very complicated macros. We ended up paying in the excess of $10,000 to have this done, so there might be a market for an excel expert, but you will have to be darn good.

3 hours ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

I once had a project where we needed a excel sheet with some very complicated macros. We ended up paying in the excess of $10,000 to have this done, so there might be a market for an excel expert, but you will have to be darn good.

 

The OP could offer his services via fiverr.com and other simialr sites

NO.

Going to be tough as a freelancer.  Small businesses use spreadsheets for inventory, but they aren't going to pay for training.  I was an RBASE 5000 expert 30 years ago...at the time it seemed like spreadsheets were for people too simple to do database.  Did employment statistics on 14500 employees on a 4.77 MHz 80286, with 640 KB.

On 3/10/2017 at 11:45 PM, malt25 said:

"1 out of 4 people have their own business in Thailand, so learning excel can help." 

Well, I didn't know that. You've already started your Thai career. You just taught me something.

I'd be interested in knowing where you did your lesson research. 25% of Thais own a business. I think if you included motorbike taxi riders, taxi drivers, mum & pop shop owners & the like, your 25% would be far off the mark.

But hey, just my opinion.

All those rise fields, market places, and street food....Have you ever rode a train? How many of those people walk around trying to sell you something? 

 

In USA about 1 in 10 own their own business.

 

This "1 out 4" information I got from business 101 book. I don't remember which. It had China at about 1 in 10 also. Thailand was the highest.

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