Pros
Working overseas with ELIC was great at first. There was support and training that was good, especially for those without teaching experience. The TESOL certificate is nice. The idea of a team at your school or city is comforting as well. Most people in the organization are nice and friendly.
Cons
There is a big disconnect between on the field personnel and what it takes to be a successful ex-pat and what the people in Fort Collins actually hire. When they send someone to a country, the Fort Collins office is not dealing with the ramifications of those decisions. As such, they often make mistakes, which can make the average employees life difficult. There were countless mistakes to support profiles that each teacher has. In my there were around 5,000 dollars of mistakes - misappropriations, money added when it shouldn't have been or taken out, assigned to the wrong teacher. One time 13 of us were in a meeting talking about profile expenses and every single person had had a mistake. One teacher, who had been with ELIC for almost 20 years, said he couldn't remember a year when there wasn't a mistake to his profile. A few years ago, they stopped recruiting teachers. Since this is an educational institution, I found this odd. Also, they continued to recruit families, when the salary paid by most universities is not enough to support western families. Most families then had to raise extra support.