Career Corner
In this blog, members of the American Association for Employment in Education, a professional organization for college career-center directors and school district recruiters, provided career advice and discuss developments in the education job market. This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: career advice and job huntjob hunt.
Job Hunting Tips & Advice
Opinion
Your Online Profile - Does It Matter?
We live in an online world, and you have chosen a public profession – a potential precarious combination. Online social networking sites provide education majors and teacher candidates a challenge to balance online activities with the realities that just about everything in the life of a teacher is public. A recent survey of employers by NACE (National Association of Colleges and Employers) revealed that 29% of the employers use social networking sites as part of their recruitment effort, an increase from 17% the year before. An unflattering online presence can lead to a job candidate being removed from the employment consideration. As long as the employer consistently uses this process for all applicants, online searches for candidate information are fine.
Job Hunting Tips & Advice
Opinion
Time Commitment to a Successful Job Search
How much time are you prepared to spend on your job search? A few hours a week? A few minutes a day? Well, those who have been successful with their search tell us that it took 6-8 hours a day for many weeks before they obtained the job offer they were seeking. A job search is like a full-time job, reviewing job posting sites, attending job fairs, making phone calls, filling out applications, mailing resumes, sending e-mail messages and keeping good records. Just finding the teaching opportunities that match with your license will take many hours. This will require research techniques and perseverance to stay on task, focusing on the goal of landing your first teaching position.
Job Hunting Tips & Advice
Opinion
How Did My Dream Job Become a Nightmare?
You start the year with high hopes. The interview went well, and the job (or student teaching placement) sounds ideal. Sometimes your expectations are realized, and the fit is perfect. Sometimes, though, it is not. How does this happen?
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Calling All Veterans!!!!
As you begin to transition from your military service, there is a way that you can continue to “Be All that You Can Be,” and “Aim High,” and still “Be Part of the Action,” as you “Let the Journey Begin,” as one of “The Few, The Proud,” become a teacher.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Felony+Teaching Career=Problems
“When I was in high school, I made a really stupid mistake. I went to a party and all my friends were drinking, so I did, too. I had a curfew, and I knew that my parents would worry if I didn’t get home on time, so I drove – even though I shouldn’t have. I hit a car, and the investigating officer smelled alcohol on my breath. The bottom line is that I was charged with a DUI. It’s a felony in our state. My dream, since I was in third grade, was to be a teacher. Is there any way I can still get a teaching license? I’ve learned my lesson the hard way, and I know I’d be a great teacher.”
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Reduce Stress – Be a Better Teacher
Burned out? Overwhelmed? Exhausted? Whether you’re a student teacher, new teacher or seasoned professional, you may find yourself overcome by stress at this time of the year. You never think twice about being there for your students and responding to their needs. But what about you? If you don’t take care of yourself, your job will become a burden and you’ll lose your effectiveness in the classroom.
Job Hunting Tips & Advice
Opinion
Get an Early Start, Job Seekers
Here we are, approaching the end of September, and teachers’ minds are on upcoming parent-teacher conferences. School district human resources professionals are celebrating having a complete staff – or wondering how they will fill those challenging positions now that school is already well underway. Student teachers and soon-to-be student teachers are worried about lesson plans and classroom management.
Job Hunting Tips & Advice
Opinion
Teacher Ethics
With the School Year underway, now is a perfect time to promote the role of teachers specifically in the area of “Teacher Ethics”.
Job Hunting Tips & Advice
Opinion
ENGAGING YOURSELF IN YOUR JOB SEARCH
I appreciate the opportunity to share some thoughts for readers who are beginning their job searches for a teaching position. I hope that some of them may strike a chord and will be helpful.
Job Hunting Tips & Advice
Opinion
Survival Guide for Interviewing
You student taught and loved it. You went to the Teacher Job fair at your school and met lots of great recruiters from school districts across the state. You filled out all the applications you possibly could. Now you are sitting by the phone waiting….waiting….waiting….
Job Hunting Tips & Advice
Opinion
Getting the Most Out of a Teacher Job Fair
There are different types of teacher job fairs. They range from those sponsored by local school districts; those sponsored by colleges and universities and those that are sponsored by different regions of individual states. School districts send various types of personnel; from human resources staff to an assistant principal. The districts may use different forms of media to enlighten students on their needs.
Job Hunting Tips & Advice
Opinion
Paperwork is Key to the Job Search Process: Dot Your I's and Cross Your T's
One of the first things you do in starting your job search is to make sure your paperwork is in order. When we think of the paperwork associated with your job search, we generally focus on the resume as the key document in the process. Although the resume is important and should represent you in a professional manner, it is not the only document that is vital to your job search. Your evaluations and your applications are equally important. If you self manage your placement file, you need to make sure that the copies you send or legible and if you use the services of your university’s career center, you need to make sure that you provide the correct address of the school districts.
Job Hunting Tips & Advice
Opinion
Can you talk about your resume in an interview?
As most everyone knows, a resume is a document that highlights your experiences and qualifications to potential employers. Unfortunately, what some people don't know is they are held accountable for the information they put on the resume. If you post something on your resume, make sure it is truthful. In an interview, an employer can tell if you are skirting around the question or issue being talked about. If it's not true, don't post it. Also, you must know your resume very well and be ready to answer questions about everything on it.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Sustainability in K-12 Education
What is Sustainability?
Sustainability is the concept of meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. It is progress toward a sustainable economy, society and environment (environment, equity and economy).
Sustainability is the concept of meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. It is progress toward a sustainable economy, society and environment (environment, equity and economy).