Where to go to find a Elementary Teaching position? WILLING TO RELOCATE ANYWHERE (educators, faculty)
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Well here's a website that has Texas ISD jobs.
Not all ISD jobs are on there but it's a start.
From there you can go to individual ISDs and see what they have.
Way back in the mid/late 70's and early 80's, the last time there was a teacher glut, which is when I started it was basically the same story. At that time I was my sole support for my and I had a husband I was helping put through law school, and they weren't allowed to work. I worked from 5:30-9 three or four nights a week and all day Saturday and Sunday at a retail store in addition to taking every subbing job I was offered. Naturally, we had no health insurance, but people didn't seem to worry about that then. It was exhausting at times but I was offered a full time teaching job the next year from one of the places I had subbed. I got my foot in the door and it was pretty much the only way new teachers got jobs back then.
We all knew that was the way it was going to work back then. The problem right now is that when the people currently graduating from 4-year programs started their education, there were schools that were still begging for teachers. When I think of some of the crap teachers schools I worked at were forced to hire, and compare them to some of the far better quality potential new teachers that won't be able to get a job, I find it very frustrating. Like most new graduates in every area right now, this is a crappy time to try to break into the job market. But based on what I experienced the last time our nation was in this position, those with the right attitude and a willingness to do what they need to in order to get a job, will eventually get them. In teaching that means getting a steady, albeit menial and low paying, job during non-school hours and subbing whenever they get a chance.
Nowadays, though, it is difficult to find other work that you can supplement in addition to subbing. That's the problem. There are something like 3.8 million job openings now of all kinds, but 11.7 million unemployed, to say nothing of the underemployed, such as yours truly.
I work at one local school district and the ESD for subbing, and I do both certified and classified for the school district and just certified for the ESD, and then three times a year for two or three weeks being a DIBELS tester for the school district. I still didn't make enough money I could support myself--nowhere near the money--and the lack of income during the month of March (thanks to state testing) absolutely devastated me financially. I have literally no wiggle room.
In my case I don't have the luxury of years to wait until getting a regular certificated position being 58 years old. I cannot get tutoring jobs, I cannot get part-time classified jobs, even with no benefits attached, let alone any kind of certificated employment (not yet certified in this state except to sub).
My only real hope is to get a license to teach special education and then find some kind of longterm sub job in the field that perhaps could lead to a regular position. It's very hard to start all over after having had my livelihood stolen in another state.
Nowadays, though, it is difficult to find other work that you can supplement in addition to subbing. That's the problem.
It was a problem then too. I got mine at a retail store by being hired as temporary help at Christmas and being kept on. Not everyone was and at first I only got 8-20 hours a week until enough other people left that I could get more. There are crap jobs out there now too. It just may take work to find them.
Based on the age you stated, you should remember how bad it was, although your age puts you right on the edge of being one of the ones lucky enough to get a job before the crap hit the fan. Like this major recession, it was proceeded by flush times and it was an employees' job market until it crashed and seemed to turn on a dime. The job market I walked into was far, far different than the one my sister did a mere 5 years earlier. History repeats itself. This time it has lasted longer, and I blame it on poor federal fiscal policies.
It was a problem then too. I got mine at a retail store by being hired as temporary help at Christmas and being kept on. Not everyone was and at first I only got 8-20 hours a week until enough other people left that I could get more. There are crap jobs out there now too. It just may take work to find them.
Based on the age you stated, you should remember how bad it was, although your age puts you right on the edge of being one of the ones lucky enough to get a job before the crap hit the fan. Like this major recession, it was proceeded by flush times and it was an employees' job market until it crashed and seemed to turn on a dime. The job market I walked into was far, far different than the one my sister did a mere 5 years earlier. History repeats itself. This time it has lasted longer, and I blame it on poor federal fiscal policies.
The massive unemployment is a direct result of Washington policies which still cling to the discredited and debunked neoliberal economics or globalism, which is nothing more than an attempt to force all countries into third world status in order for the elites to have more.
It is the ruination of the United States.
Enough of that.
I never had any problem at all getting back on my feet financially until the last downturn, and now it is absolutely impossible to find anything no matter my education and experience. And then you have employers demanding all kinds of things on applications and resumes, and I am going to say "forget it" at this late stage.
This morning I received an email from one potential employer of tutors "requesting" that I redo my resume in order to show dates and phone numbers of employers. I have long used a combination resume because to do a chronological is simply redundant plus a chronological reveals things like your age and period of unemployment. I let this woman know that I had NEVER been asked by an employer to "redo" my resume and I pointed out that revealing dates is potentially discriminatory.
I am not going to do that for anybody. I doubt I would want to work for somebody who is like this.
I never had any problem at all getting back on my feet financially until the last downturn, and now it is absolutely impossible to find anything no matter my education and experience. And then you have employers demanding all kinds of things on applications and resumes, and I am going to say "forget it" at this late stage.
This morning I received an email from one potential employer of tutors "requesting" that I redo my resume in order to show dates and phone numbers of employers. I have long used a combination resume because to do a chronological is simply redundant plus a chronological reveals things like your age and period of unemployment. I let this woman know that I had NEVER been asked by an employer to "redo" my resume and I pointed out that revealing dates is potentially discriminatory.
I am not going to do that for anybody. I doubt I would want to work for somebody who is like this.
She wasn't asking for the unreasonable. I wouldn't have had an issue with changing the resume to the way she wanted. How is changing it to ways that point out flaws worse than completely taking yourself out of the running?
She wasn't asking for the unreasonable. I wouldn't have had an issue with changing the resume to the way she wanted. How is changing it to ways that point out flaws worse than completely taking yourself out of the running?
The person can shove it. It's clearly unreasonable. She also wanted local references because she didn't want to pay the phone expenses to call people from Nevada for professional references. I have none here and can't get them. With the resume it's a way for this person to judge if I have been unemployed for a period of time.
Apparently you haven't followed news reports talking about unemployment discrimination.
Chronological resumes are JUNK unless you have had consistent employment over the course of a working career or that your working career isn't long. Not to mention when you are talking about education jobs, the duties are completely redundant from job to job. A functional resume or a combination resume work far better, especially for older people and for those who have been out of work for a period of time because they focus on SKILLS, not on where and when you worked.
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