Postgrad10 wrote: » Some They say they will ring and then they never do so try not to be too disappointed. it's cruel, it really is.
goldencrisp62 wrote: » Head to the UK guys. Plenty of jobs on offer and plenty money to be made too
Starkystark wrote: » Still no word! :'( I travelled back from England and everything!
Starkystark wrote: » Pm'd you!
patriciaf6 wrote: » When was your interview? Stay positive!
Starkystark wrote: » Thursday. I rang the school today and they said they sent out letters today so I presume I've been unsuccessful.
highly1111 wrote: » You never know starkystark. I got called for an interview via letter and it wouldn't surprise me if I hear one way or another via letter also. I had an interview today so the wait is back on for me. I hope the post arrives tomorrow for you.
smallgarden wrote: » Got offered 11hrs but its privately paid hours so hesitant. Theyre wanting me to sign contracts next week
patriciaf6 wrote: » I'm getting more and more disheartened after each interview. Teaching interviews aren't great for the confidence when you don't get offered the job!
patriciaf6 wrote: » That's harsh! It's tough! I just keep telling myself that practices makes perfect! A recent interview was for a job I really wanted and it suited my experience! P and VP made me so welcome and seemed really interested but I just felt the subject teacher wasn't impressed at all! Was it much longer after the interview that you got the call highly1111?
highly1111 wrote: » Just as an fyi the interview I had last week was on Tuesday and I got the no call that Friday.
annejohn91 wrote: » What annoyed me greatly, I did an interview last Friday and received no call or email since. I obviously knew I didn't have the job after 3 days but it would be nice to receive an email because for a few days I was waiting around hoping. However good news came yesterday, I received a contract for 12 hours plus resource. I was told it would be more than 20 each week which is good because I am only starting out teaching so i'd take 6 hours tbh. I think if you don't hear in 2 days after an interview, then the job is gone
patriciaf6 wrote: » Thanks for the replies on when you usually hear back! Got a phonecall this morning and I've been offered the job! I'll get a written contract early next week and if I sign it is that it? If a job in my old school came up could I take it? Or once you sign on the dotted line? Extremely grateful to be offered a job but when it's away from home there's always that chance that something closer to home might arise!
gaiscioch wrote: » There are "plenty of jobs" for a reason. See Teacher stress levels in England 'soaring', data shows (March 2015) The money, however, is dire. I was plagued by agency recruiters (how very Thatcherite to create a lucrative group of private teacher recruitment agencies and pay the actual teachers a pittance) until I removed my name from all of them. They were offering the offensive salary of £22k or £23k, and trying to get me excited about getting a few hundred pounds back if I signed up to their company. No recognition for postgrad degrees or anything, and about 6 or 7 weeks more work each year. In sharp contrast, I started on €38,000 here. The English system is a yellow pack system with teachers turned into burnt-out, creatively emaciated pen pushers filling in form after form. Unlike, say, financial whizzkids in "the City", teachers and their work are not valued in that society. A massive 40% of English teachers quit their jobs within the first year (2015). There will always be jobs for Irish people in such a system. I decided to take the hit, stay in Ireland and do subbing wherever I could get it rather than become one of the many Irish people who return from the English system with their mind and self-confidence damaged. As an old teacher always said to me, in Ireland teachers are drawn from the top 10% of secondary school classes; in England they tend to be drawn from the bottom (or thereabouts) 10%. Pay peanuts, get monkeys, and they'll accept monkey conditions.
