I have found more and more that finding a teaching job is a very hard task. I started applying though OLAS, NY state's online system for hiring/applying for teaching jobs, in February. Yet I have heard back from no one. A select few schools at least acknowledge they have received your application, but from most you get nothing. No acknowledgment your application was received, or notice that the position was filled.
I know that a lot of it is who you know. Where you have connections. But I am still here, after 60+ applications, hoping to hear back from someone.
I need to stop making excuses like that the budgets are getting voted on in May, or that the process of BOCES, to district, to superintendent, to principal is what is holding it up.
All in all, I wait, at the mercy of New York State. I wait to hear if I will have a job in the fall.
I have been told that teachers received jobs in May, in June, even two days before school started in September.
