Has anyone else had a hard time finding a job after working as a substitute teacher?

Question

OK I am having a ridiculously hard time finding a job now that I spent some time (less than a year) doing substitute teaching. I have a B.S. degree in Business Management. I was having trouble finding a job last summer. I had very little experience and I was a stay at home mom for 3 years prior to that. I thought I could get by working as a substitute teacher until a regular full-time job came along. But now it seems to be impossible to get into a business-related job or an entry-level management job. How do I convince potential employers that I am not interested in teaching? Has anyone ever tried to get a different job after substitute teaching? I am so frustrated and I don't know how to get it across that I don't want to be a teacher. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Make sure that your resume and cover letter make NO mention of your former stay-at-home mom status. That could be the biggest killer of all. In your cover letter, talk about how the skills you learned teaching will apply to the business world.

Diplomacy - you are good at solving inter-personal problems and you can act as a liasion between different levels within the corporate hierarchy
Good Communication Skills - you are capable of speaking clearly and concisely, you can hold people's attention for long periods of time, and you are an active listening
Working Under Pressure - You are used to working with tight deadlines (you had to teach a specific curriculum in a given amount of time) and you're used to juggling multiple projects
Flexibility - You were available to be called into work at short notice, and you were able to teach multiple subjects

Answer 2

Let the sub know your concerns during the meeting. Be respectful, but don't hold back your worries. The secretary was correct in not having you speak to the principal until you see the sub first (sometimes parents are not willing to speak to the teacher and they go over the teacher's head and the teacher has no idea of the issue). However, if this next meeting gets canceled, then I would push the issue of speaking to the principal. 28 pages is a lot of work during the day; I'm not sure if she is just giving the kids worksheets all day, or if that's just the amount of work kids do in a regular school day. I know the standards are intense nowadays. Good luck. Hopefully the regular teacher returns soon.

Answer 3

I substitue taught for a year after I finished college (BA in Spanish) and was hired the next year in a school district as a teaching assistant. I didn't really like that job, so I went to grad school at the end of year.

I guess the best way to emphasize that you don't want to teach is to minimize it on your resume.

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