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K-12 Job Search Resources

K-12 Career and Licensing Services provides individual assistance with the job search process for students in and graduates of Lewis & Clark’s teaching, school counseling, school psychology, and educational administration programs.

BIPOC

2SLGBTQIA+

AAEE’s Job Search Handbook for Educators
- L&C GSEC student teachers and final-year school counseling and school psychology interns receive either paper or digital copies from the K-12 Career and Licensing Services’ office
Education Week’s TopSchoolJobs Blog
NEA Today for Aspiring Educators
NEA’s Aspiring Educators Program
NEA Resource Library (try searching under “New Teachers” or “New Educators”)
NEA FAQs About New Teacher Employment
NEA A 20-Point Checklist of Key Strategies for Your Next Teaching Job Search
NEA 6 Ways Social Media Can Help in Your Job Search
NEA 10 Things an Employer Seeks in a Job Candidate
NEA How to Create a Professional Profile That Gets You Noticed

Letters of recommendation are typically written at the end of your student teaching or internship experience and are usually written by the three people whom you have listed as references.

If you have applied for a position and the school district is requiring you to upload letters of recommendation before these letters have been written, you have two options:

Create a Word document or .pdf that you scan and upload indicating that you are completing your student teaching or final internship and the date that you anticipate receiving your final letters of recommendation (usually in April or May of your final year in the program).
In the unusual case where the school district requires the letters to finalize an early hiring decision, you can ask your references to write in-process letters as placeholders until they write the final letters at the end of your field experience.

K-12 Job Search Resources

Timelines, Vacancies, and Recruiting Events (USA and International)

BIPOC and 2SLGBTQIA+ Resources

General Resources

Resumes, License Place-holder, and Cover Letters

Letters of Recommendation

Interview and Educator Fair Preparation

Building Your Network with Professional Organizations

School District Maps and National Directory

Student Loans and Other Assistance