UNT Job Fair

This morning I woke up and dressed really fancy for a job fair at UNT. As student teachers, we are allowed one day off from school to attend a job fair or an interview. Since I'm not exactly rolling in interviews right now, and all of the school districts all over Texas have cancelled, or "postponed" their job fairs, I figured this would be my only chance.

There were some good districts that showed up... a lot that were on my list. Carroll ISD, Grapevine-Colleyville, FRISCO, Carrollton-Farmers Branch, Coppell, Richardson, Plano, and others.

I printed 30 copies of my resume.. I think I handed out 4 or 5... only because this was the response I got at each table I visited:

"We aren't hiring right now, because we're on a hire freeze. But once teachers turn in their resignations, and we move existing teachers around, we might have some openings."

It was strange to see Irving and Plano and other districts at the job fair that have recently laid off teachers... I am convinced they only showed up because they committed to the job fair before all of this budget stuff hit the fan...

There are some positive things that came from the job fair. David Boles, HR director of Frisco, recognized me from the UNT student teacher meetings he has been to. He paper clipped my resume and circled that I am currently student teaching there. I got some good tips from some on applying and following up, and will be making a couple of changes to my resume by putting the principal from my school as a reference, and adding my presidents list and deans list semesters to it.

I need to dedicate my next couple of Sundays to the UNT Library (while I am still a student!) and just knock out application after application. I am really trying my hardest!

Hopefully around the end of May or beginning of June, districts will start to lift their freezes.