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I'm a school librarian looking to relocate to Wake County. In my county there are 2 librarian jobs posted for next year, plus one long term sub job. In Wake County there are currently 29 jobs posted.
So I am going to apply!
My question is: What does the standard WCPSS resume look like? Just job experience and education? A category for technology proficiencies or additional professional development? If I list these additional items I will move on to two pages.
Up here, resumes are pretty casual. I don't want to goof this up.
Also, what do track 6 and 7 mean? Is that a year round school thing?
And does anyone know the difference between a Media Specialist and a Media Coordinator?
They are planning to close public libraries down here due to county budget cuts. So there are probably a lot of librarians down here looking for other library jobs.
I read on the website that those jobs ARE open, but they won't decide whether to actually fill them until their budget is figured out in July. I can't help with resume format, but my advice would be put in there everything you have as long as it doesn't go past 2 pages. You want to sell yourself to them so if you have credentials that might put you above the rest, don't cut those out just to keep it to 1 page. I just moved here as well, so I'm not sure about the track thing, but I think it has something to do with the fact that some schools are traditional schedule and some are year round. Best of luck!
track 6 and 7 means that it's a year round school, so you'd be on a modified schedule.
Jobs will be filled based on budget, and many (if not all) jobs will be filled by teachers who were on terminating contracts and but in a position to be "rehired" should the jobs be available.
Yep, don't mean to burst your bubble, but Wake Co. schools are in awful trouble. Right now there's a hiring freeze, schools are staffed at 90% last I heard, class sizes are being increased, etc. Current teachers don't even know yet if they have a job for next year. I would imagine that any open positions would surely be filled by current employees who don't get their contracts renewed as the PP mentioned.
About two weeks ago when I checked the listings, there were very few, most for Holly Springs (which I wondered if the school was brand new)
Just this week they have posted hundreds of jobs, all with posting dates of June 1,2, 4 etc.
Some of these have a start date of July 1 and are Year round schools.
I don't know about NC, but in NY you can't fill a Library Media Specialist job with a regular classroom certified teacher unless you are completely out of viable LMS candidates. Nor would an LMS be hired to teach a classroom without the appropriate certificate.
I can only assume that like schools here in NY, these are jobs they would like to fill, and have to begin the hiring process now, but no one will actually get hired until after the budgetary process resolves itself.
The word here in NY is that the stimulus package IS making up for the other shortfalls we have (although only for 2 years).
I don't yet have a concept of how big these schools are. In my current building it is not unusual to have 27 per class with integrated special needs kids. As an LMS I teach 20 classes per week.
I don't know about NC, but in NY you can't fill a Library Media Specialist job with a regular classroom certified teacher unless you are completely out of viable LMS candidates. Nor would an LMS be hired to teach a classroom without the appropriate certificate.
I would assume that there are LMSs that were on terminating contracts who will be filling these jobs (my wife just went through this as a school psychologist). Anybody who was working less than full time was on a terminating contract. Obviously you have nothing to lose by applying, but it is very unlikely that any of these are actually new positions.
Ditto what has been said. Many teachers ( who did not have NC license in hand when they applied for positions last year) had to be terminated due to hiring freeze. That being said, just like in NY, all jobs must be posted. However, most if not all will be filled with the teacher they just had to let go. Very confusing, but most jobs are just postings right now with people already in place. BUT it cannot hurt to try, good luck.
Here in NY (and I am not one of those people who think we should all do it this way, this is just my current frame of reference), we do NOT need to hire uncertified teachers so a terminating contract would not exist in that case. Sometimes a grant will pay for a short term contract, like 2 or 3 years for Reading First. If a temporary hire, for example, a long term sub, is going to become permanent the position would be posted externally and you would have to repeat the hiring process.
I am currently a one year sub for someone who took a leave, but she resigned in Feb, so the district took the opportunity to eliminate the position completely.
I can collect unemployment here in NY, so I guess I'll probably hang here until next summer and work on my NC cert and applications!
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Hmmm, hard to interpret
