Planning Your Job Search
The Career Center offers a job search workshop during your student teaching, a "Teacher Employment" packet available in our office, resume reviews, as well as many other resources to help you plan your job search.
Begin by developing your resume and prepare a cover letter to load into employment databases. Let the Career Center staff review your resume and letter, then load your finished resume into Hiram CareerNet..
There are many strategies you can use to find a teaching job. Your job search will be strongest if you use all of these strategies:
- Attend career fairs! Hiram College participates in NOTED, the Northeast Ohio Teacher Education Day, to be held on Thursday, April 3, 2008. Many school districts have begun holding job fairs of their own. Check websites for dates.
- Make sure your account in Hiram CareerNet is kept updated and check the job postings often.
- Set a geographic target and apply to every district in that area.
- Search vacancy lists and apply to advertised vacancies.
- Monitor school district websites to see if they post jobs in your certification area.
- Network with other teachers, administrators, friends, Hiram alums, and professors to locate vacancies. Be active professionally; attend workshops.
Be sure to develop a Plan A and a Plan B job search strategy, and think about how and WHEN you will implement Plan B. Don't leave Plan B to chance! Decide now what you will do if your first choice jobs don't seem to be available