This website has been designed to provide you, as a prospective international staff candidate, with the information you need to know all about the University’s recruitment and engagement. It contains useful information that will help you to complete a job application for one of our advertised positions and go through necessary procedures for engagement, staying in China, working and living at Guangdong Ocean University (GDOU).

    For our international staff, the University offers a colorful and meaningful way of life as well as a dynamic place of employment. You'll find almost everything you need right here on campus, including a bank, a post office, a shopping center with bars and restaurants, a well-equipped hospital, a travel agency, a gymnasium, swimming pools, a cultural and recreation centre, a hairdresser and so on.. If you have never been to Guangdong Ocean University, please check out the relevant information on our website in About GDOU and you will sure be impressed.

   International staffs at GDOU are engaged and administrated under two general categories: the international TEFL staff and the international academic staff. For detailed information about the category of your interest and concern, applicants are advised to refer to the International TEFL Staff page and the International Academic Staff page on this website respectively.

    Many things have changed within the University since 1998 when we began to recruit foreign staff. The change has improved our University and made us a better place to work and to study. The University could not have won such a level of recognition without having high caliber international staff. We pride ourselves for being a University of innovation, and in turn, we look for innovation in our staff, both native and international.

    If you are interested in applying for one of our advertised positions, please take the time to look through this website, talk to people that work or live here. We are sure that you will find out that most people will tell you that Guangdong Ocean University is a great place where people work and live. And you can apply for an international academic staff position at GDOU any time at your disposal and in your charge.

    If you have further questions about working for GDOU that are not answered here, please do not hesitate to Contact FAO (the Foreign Affairs Office), the University’s administrative unit that is responsible for international staff affairs.