What’s it like to apply for jobs in the social media age
For those who haven’t caught up, I’m in the job market.
But what I want to talk about today is the process. I’ve been applying for jobs for 25 years now. I’ve completed:
- handwritten letters
- typed cover letters (probably in comic sans), then mailed in
- “apply in writing to blah blah blah…”
The thing that has amazed me this time is this: loads of online application forms. “Paste your cover letter here.” “upload your CV here – pdf or rtf only, ONE FILE.”
I read somewhere, that your CV will probably not be printed – this opens the opportunity for hyperlinks. Cool!
Schools just don’t do it like this. It’s usually: “a form will be mailed to you…” “download this form then mail it in…”
I remarked to a colleague that maybe it would help weed out the not-so-savvy.
Please let me know (steve@voisey.co.nz) if you know about an opportunity.
Good luck. My teaching CV has on the front of it a QR code to a my portofolio page. Which has twitter api, RSS feed to my blog, videos of students learning, teaching appraisals etc. I figure the schools which realize what the thing is will be impressed, not bothering to apply to schools which wouldn’t get it.
Your geekiness knows no bounds 🙂
Stephanie, disappointed to see you’re primary. We want a physics teacher like you!!!
Comic Sans… NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
@lazzabee I barely scraped together a pass in bursary physics, very much a case of the blind leading the blind.
lmao!