Prince William County Schools (Hiring Process for Teachers) (Fairfax: 2015, offices)

[lordntaylor]

Hello,

I have applied for several history teaching positions with the Prince William County School System.

Every time that I apply for a position, I recieve an automated email indicating that my application status has being updated to "application reviewed", and then nothing..........no updates at all.

I was hoping to find someone on this forum that is familiar with PWCS hiring process; these are my questions:

• What exactly does "applicaiton reviewed" mean ?

• Does this mean that your application is visible to school principals, or is it a polite way of saying "were not interested" ?

• How do I get to the next step ?

• Should I pound the pavement and hand out resumes to school principals ?

I welcome all comments and suggestions. Thanks !

[justtitans]

Originally Posted by lordntaylor

Hello,

I have applied for several history teaching positions with the Prince William County School System.

Every time that I apply for a position, I recieve an automated email indicating that my application status has being updated to "application reviewed", and then nothing..........no updates at all.

I was hoping to find someone on this forum that is familiar with PWCS hiring process; these are my questions:

• What exactly does "applicaiton reviewed" mean ?

• Does this mean that your application is visible to school principals, or is it a polite way of saying "were not interested" ?

• How do I get to the next step ?

• Should I pound the pavement and hand out resumes to school principals ?

I welcome all comments and suggestions. Thanks !

My wife has gone through this process repeatedly. It seems her most effective route is by going to career fairs, meeting principals and networking there. She has gotten a few interviews doing that.

As far as how challenging it is, check this out from the first day of this academic year:

Summer Break Ends, Students Return to Class - Potomac Local News Potomac Local News

*Hired approximately 600 new teachers
*173,657 job applications were received this past year, including 66,495 teacher applications

There is a lot of competition.

[Mnseca]

Originally Posted by justtitans

My wife has gone through this process repeatedly. It seems her most effective route is by going to career fairs, meeting principals and networking there. She has gotten a few interviews doing that.

As far as how challenging it is, check this out from the first day of this academic year:

Summer Break Ends, Students Return to Class - Potomac Local News Potomac Local News



There is a lot of competition.

I agree with the above. All the Nova counties basically expect you to not only submit the online stuff, but to also approach principals directly, by emailing, going to career fairs, etc. Doesn't hurt to sub in the schools if you are local. If you submit the online app and then just sit and wait, nothing will ever happen. You have to treat it as two separate processes - call and make sure your app is complete and there is nothing you still need to submit, but simultaneously apply directly to schools. Principals will probably ask you if you have submitted your materials to central admin, and you'll want to be able to say that you are covered there. But in my experience no one looks at all those applications except the HR people, and I'm not even sure there is a good system of referral from there. I am not sure about PW, but in Fairfax there are also central instructional offices for each subject specialty, and you can also contact them directly. I remember them giving me a kind of preliminary interview to see if I knew anything, and then they actually called me and told me about some jobs I could apply for.

[Muffy62]

Send your resume to the principals of the schools you are interested in. I know at our school, the resumes are looked at by the Principal's secretary and then forwarded to the Principal. He will select the ones he wants to interview. Currently they are interviewing for open positions for school year 2014-2015.

HR only makes sure your paperwork is complete and they will forward the "official" offer to you.

[Grsz11]

Basically HR determines if you are eligible for a position or not. The school's do their own hiring, so it is absolutely essential that you contact the principals directly.