No job - what to do now?

gatzi

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gatzi

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My wife has just finished her first full year of teaching secondary school in Scotland after her probation year. It was only a temporary job for 1 year.

They do a mass interview each year and this year she has been given no job, not even part time. It seems many are in the same boat.

We have savings just now and she could have course get a job just anywhere to help pay the bills.

Is anyone else in this same situation in Scotland and what are you planning to do?

The wife is pretty stressed about it all!
 
So YOU have a job right?

what should she do? get another job?!? Theres hundreds of other schools out there and last time i checked they always need teaching staff.
 
iamtheoneneo said:
So YOU have a job right?

what should she do? get another job?!? Theres hundreds of other schools out there and last time i checked they always need teaching staff.
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300 teachers in Northern Ireland have been made redundant this summer. The education system is suffering from the cuts. And dependent on the OPs circumstances, it might not be as simple as upping sticks to seek out employment elsewhere.
 
It's not quite the same in Scotland

They do 1 big interview at the start of the year for teachers who don't have a job. The places for employment are given off the back of this interview. The subject she is in there are very few places.

It's pretty much like she will not get a job this year at all in teaching and she'll have to try again next year
 
Do supply teaching (I assume it's called that in Scotland) until she gets a full time teaching position?

Edit: In response to the post above, is she a victim of Gove's "English Bacc."? Where pretty much any teachers who don't teach one of the arbitrary six subjects is screwed?
 
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Brian8bit said:
300 teachers in Northern Ireland have been made redundant this summer. The education system is suffering from the cuts. And dependent on the OPs circumstances, it might not be as simple as upping sticks to seek out employment elsewhere.
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Thats northen ireland though were talking about Scotland, the whole of NI is a shambles at the moment so thats no surprise.

Just because your trained in one profession doesnt mean you cant do another in the mean time, admin work etc etc...
 
gatzi said:
It's not quite the same in Scotland

They do 1 big interview at the start of the year for teachers who don't have a job. The places for employment are given off the back of this interview. The subject she is in there are very few places.

It's pretty much like she will not get a job this year at all in teaching and she'll have to try again next year
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Sign up for supply teaching, my sister has been doing it for years, she will get work most weeks.
 
Move south? Or perhaps about 1:30h from your work and then she can look for a job 1:30h even further south. That way you can split the commute/distance so that she can be in another area to look for jobs?

I know it doesn't sound great but it could be an option.
 
kgi said:
Move south? Or perhaps about 1:30h from your work and then she can look for a job 1:30h even further south. That way you can split the commute/distance so that she can be in another area to look for jobs?

I know it doesn't sound great but it could be an option.
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I understand what you are saying

It's all about money. Need to sell our house etc.

Bad times not to have a job!
 
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