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Welcome
to the inaugural issue of the Source for College Career
Offices.
Spring has arrived, finally! Longer days, warmer weather, and summer
vacation is just around the corner. But it also means that if your
students are thinking about a job for next school year, time is
running out. If they haven't already started their job search, they
need to begin today! SchoolSpring has access to almost 20,000 jobs
and when students subscribe to SchoolSpring Plus, they
can send a professional application using their online portfolio
with just a click (read more about this below). Things are really
looking up this Spring!
Please enjoy the newsletter and call 888-546-3487
or email us at contact@schoolspring.com
if you have any questions or comments.
Jim Fitzpatrick
President, SchoolSpring
P.S. Jennifer Kirby, Recruitment Coordinator at the
Harvard Graduate School of Education said about our service, "By
simplifying the application process, SchoolSpring has created one-stop
shopping for teachers and administrators. The benefits to both the
job seekers and the schools hiring are incredible."
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 Click
here to watch one of our fun cartoons and Mr. Fitz will
show you how SchoolSpring makes finding a new job easy! |
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SchoolSpring Plus is a ground-breaking service that allows
your students to transmit professionally-formatted application packages
to any employers they want, whether or not the jobs are listed on
SchoolSpring! The student provides the contact information for each
employer and we'll generate an Adobe Acrobat PDF file with everything
in their portfolio and send it via email.
SchoolSpring Plus applications can be customized
for each employer, allowing students to address specific hiring
personnel, tailor every cover letter, and determine the exact information
each employer receives. The SchoolSpring Plus service costs
$39.95 per year and includes unlimited application submissions.
Here's what one educator had to say about SchoolSpring Plus:
"Your service is the absolute best service
of its kind. I continue to receive excellent responses from potential
employers through my SchoolSpring Plus inquiries."
— Daniel W.
Click
here to learn more and view a sample! |
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How many education students
do you serve in a year?
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Here are the results of
our Winter Educator Newsletter Survey:
We asked educators “When do you plan
to get a new job in education?”
18% said “This school year (2004-05)”
76% said “Next school
year (2005-06)”
5% said “In the next
2-5 years”
1% said “Never” |
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Join Our College Career Offices
“Test Kitchen”
During the Road Show I heard a lot about how College Career
Offices could benefit from tools that would help track and report
on their students job-seeking efforts. So, we are developing just
what you have asked for (and more) but we need your help!
We are looking for college partners to participate
in our “Test Kitchen” to help us trial our new service.
Your college career center is given a special account on SchoolSpring.
From your account, you can work closely with your education students
to counsel and advise them on developing their résumés,
cover letters, managing their letters of recommendation, transcripts,
test scores, and state certification details — all key parts
to the application process for jobs in education. In addition, you
can track and monitor job vacancies from SchoolSpring member employers
and perform a SuperSearch to see what other jobs exist on the Internet,
all from one location. Please email me at susan@schoolspring.com
to sign up as a member in the “Test Kitchen”. This offer
is limited so please hurry! |
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We often receive email testimonies from educators about our service
so we thought we’d pass this along.
"I recently heard about SchoolSpring.com through
my Master's Program, and was really excited about it. I got home,
got right on-line, and was pleasantly surprised by the number of
jobs you had listed in my vicinity and my certification area! I
feel like I've been let into a secret club, and am on the inside
track to finding the job of my dreams!"
"I especially liked the different ways you
could run searches, and that the site lists openings from other
school employment websites, but allows you store your information
and apply from one central location. The site is very user friendly,
and when I had a question, I called the help number you had listed,
and was shocked to hear a real live person answer the phone immediately,
well after "normal" business hours! To call any business
these days, especially an internet based one, and not be asked to
enter a litany of numerical combinations by a computer before a
live person will answer the call is utterly refreshing!"
"I applaud your efforts, and am excited about becoming a SchoolSpring
member. I will tell all my teacher friends about your site, and
I can only hope they too will recognize the great service you are
providing to educators nationwide!"
Laura J. Faherty
Rockland, MA
Thanks for the kind words Laura and we applaud your
dedication to teaching!
If you would like to send your story about using
SchoolSpring or the trials and tribulations of being in College
Career Services, please email contact@schoolspring.com
and you may be in the next issue of the Source.
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 Please
consider linking to SchoolSpring.com from your list of career web
sites. Our service is FREE for teachers! Your students can use SchoolSpring
to search almost 20,000 K-12 teaching jobs from multiple education
job sites around the country in one easy search! Also, in our new
Resources section you will find:
• A list of upcoming JOB
FAIRS
• Quick access to STATE
RESOURCES and CERTIFICATION
requirements
• Important and HELPFUL LINKS to help your students research employment
• A list of SUGGESTED READING for job seekers and educators
Please feel free to use the following information
when setting up the link to SchoolSpring on your web site.
Title: Teaching Jobs at SchoolSpring.com
Description: Free educator job search. Apply online,
get email job alerts, find 1000s of teaching jobs from dozens of
sites with SchoolSpring. Apply to any job, anywhere with SchoolSpring
PLUS!
URL: http://www.SchoolSpring.com
Feel free to grab a logo from our pressroom.
Thanks for the link!
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| WHAT
IT IS... |
WHEN
IT IS... |
WHERE
IT IS... |
| Rhode Island Consortium for Education (RICE) |
April 20, 2005 |
Crown Plaza Hotel in Warwick, RI |
| MERC Education Career Fair |
April 21, 2005 |
Bayside Expo & Executive Conference Center in Boston,
MA |
| University of Maine at Farmington Education
Job Fair |
April 25, 2005 |
Farmington, ME |
| Teacher Appreciation Week |
May 1- 7, 2005 |
Everywhere, USA |
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