10 Tips to Get Hired as a Teacher

And one of the things, um, I kind of wanted to point out at the top of this is hiring's strange.

So for those of you who do not know, when you are getting hired for a teaching position, or rather when a school is hiring for a position, they have to basically be approved by the district, so they have to-- HR has to go, "Okay, y'all can hire now." So jobs might be posted.

Um, they, they only have a certain amount of teaching spots, but they can't actually hire until that moment happens.

So if there's a teacher that says they're leaving, but they don't put in their, their resignation until later, um, it, you know, it might be a situation where the job that is open might not be open for a while, and sometimes you'll see a school hi- interview and they'll mention something along the lines of, you know, "Well, we're expecting this spot to be open," or, "We think this is gonna happen," and sometimes those work out and sometimes they don't.

Uh, and that leaves spots kind of weird, and then maybe they do want to hire you, but they end up putting you in a different grade level.

All kinds of things can happen.

So I think at the top of this we have to remember that the, the process of hiring for campuses is strange, and it's just because of the way contracts work and the way, uh, most districts kind of divvy out, uh, money to hire whoever they're wanting for on their campus.

So things like that can alter this.

So don't let any of the strangeness affect you.

You know, it's not like getting a job at Walgreens or Walmart or something like that.

There's very specific, uh, stars aligning that have to kind of happen.

Um, so let that be forefront in your mind.

I might reference that again as we go through this, but I wanted to put that up top, is that this...

It's, it is a strange process.

So don't feel, uh, don't feel disenfranchised by it during all of this.

But anyway, let's go to number one about how to nail that job interview, and I think this is just good advice in general.

But my number one piece of advice-Is you need to be honest in your efforts.

I know you want a job, and it can be scary if this is your first attempt, but lying or even bending the truth a little bit in your interview or on your resume can get you somewhere you don't wanna be.

Trust me when I say this, and I know it's easy to say this 'cause I have a job and I've had one for a long time and all that other stuff, right? You do not want to bend the truth in an interview because you could be getting accepted by people that are gonna make you miserable isn't going to help you at all.

You do not wanna be in the situation to where, um, not only are you first inc first year, uh, changes.

There's so much to learn in your first year that you're gonna feel lost, you're gonna feel overwhelmed.

If you're a brand-new teacher, you know [laughs] classroom management's gonna be an issue, uh, lesson plan's gonna be an issue, team dynamics could be an issue, pressures of testing could be an issue.

The last thing you need is to be at a campus to where every problem you have is being worsened by the people that you work with.

And that could not...

It doesn't even mean that they had to be bad people, right? Certain campuses have certain cultures that are good for the people that are there, but they might not be good for you.