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Edith Mortenson Center,
Suite 100
Phone: (605) 274-4127
Email: career@augie.edu
Hours: Weekdays, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Schedule a meeting with Sandi Vietor or Sita Riblet. Visit the Career Center and familiarize yourself with services available. Attend workshops on resumes and interviewing. Read your AAEE Annual and your senior information book, the Concept. Consider who you will want for references and contact each of them, requesting permission to serve as a reference. You will want two or three reference writers in addition to your student teaching supervisor and cooperating teacher.
Begin completing your credentials by submitting the "Reference" form and paying the $30.00 registration fee. Attend workshops so you can start working on your resume and letters. Start early! Having these items taken care of before you begin student teaching will allow you to begin applying for positions as early as possible - you'll have more time first semester than second regardless of how busy you think you are first semester. Delaying this step slows your whole job hunting system.
You'll need your resume for mailing early in February. Complete your credentials with the Career Center. Finalize the list of schools you want to contact including the names of the hiring official. Finish and print your resume and submit a copy to the Career Center.
Mail resume and letters of inquiry requesting an application form. Complete and return application forms received from school districts. If you have started your credential file and submitted a resume to the Career Center you will begin receiving job listings weekly. Also visit the Career Center regularly to review vacancy lists from other colleges.Review lists of nearby job fairs and make plans to attend.While only a few school districts recruit on campus, be sure and sign up! Also be sure you research each school before you interview. Also review interview questions in this book and view videos on interviewing.
Start applying for advertised vacancies. Set a goal of 5 to 10 applications weekly. Start following up on schools you have applied to two to four weeks previously. A phone call is the best if you can afford it.
Continue applying for advertised positions....and...Attend Teacher Job Fairs.
This is the month to work very hard! The largest number of teaching vacancies are reported during May. They will decrease rapidly early in June. You must apply for positions NOW!! When you graduate be sure the Career Center has your new address and phone number.
Keep up the hard work. Becoming negative and stopping or slowing your job search efforts will only assure you of no position by fall.
When you receive and accept a job offer - call us immediately and share your happiness. We also need to know you are out of the market.