VACANCIES

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=3 height=111 BGCOLOR="#003399" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>The TEACHER NETWORK</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The TEACHER NETWORK"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=210 BGCOLOR="#C0DCC0" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ABOUT THE TEACHER NETWORK"><U><B>ABOUT THE TEACHER NETWORK</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="WHY USE A RECRUITMENT CONSULTANT?"><U><B>WHY USE A RECRUITMENT CONSULTANT?</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id8.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="CV MAGIC"><U><B>CV MAGIC</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="NOTICEBOARD"><U><B>NOTICEBOARD</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SUBJECT PAGES"><U><B>SUBJECT PAGES</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>VACANCIES</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="PICTURES PAGE"><U><B>PICTURES PAGE</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id44.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FUNNIES"><U><B>FUNNIES</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="NEW CLIENTS PAGE"><U><B>NEW CLIENTS' PAGE</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id5.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="TERMS of BUSINESS"><U><B>TERMS of BUSINESS</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="CONTACT US"><U><B>CONTACT US</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="230a0690.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="105" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1929e730.jpg" border=0 width="158" height="115" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>     </div> </td> <td valign="top" height=345 BGCOLOR="#C0DCC0" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> <B>VACANCIES </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>If you would like to be considered for a post </B></div> <div> <B>through The Teacher Network, </B></div> <div> <B>please send us your CV,</B></div> <div> <B> as a Word document attached to a covering email.   </B></div> <div> <B>Send it to </B><B>TheTeacherNetwork@iafrica.com</B></div> <div> <B>but before you do this, please note the points below.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1.  Our vacancy list changes constantly so we don't keep an accurate list of vacancies on the website.  Look at the top of the list on our home page to see some of the more recent vacancies.  You can also follow us @TeacherNetwork on Twitter.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>2.  Minimum requirements for ALL of our teaching vacancies are:</B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000330000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">tertiary education in a subject taught in our client schools</B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000330000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">a recognised professional teaching qualification</B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000330000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">SACE registration</B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000330000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">written English skills appropriate for a teacher (essentially with no spelling, grammatical or punctuation errors)</B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000330000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">a well-written CV that provides the information needed - concisely and comprehensively.   </B><B>You could visit the CV MAGIC page on this website, to make sure that you've included everything we feel is important</B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000330000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">a well-presented, well-structured CV</B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000330000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">the ability to use e-mail, the internet, Word and Excel</B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000330000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">legal entitlement to work in South Africa.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>3.  Please note that the language of all of our client schools is English.   The ability to communicate clearly and professionally in English, and to comprehend English at mother-tongue level is an </B><I><B>inherent requirement</B></I><B> of all of these posts.  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>4.  Remember that we will be evaluating your suitability for inclusion in our database </B><B>on the basis of the quality of your covering email and CV. </B><B>  If you leave out critical information (e.g. what grades and subjects you have taught, or the name of your teaching qualification, or the institution that you trained at) it may give the impression that you lack the level of professionalism that we want in our candidates.   Spelling, grammatical and/or typing errors will almost certainly give the same impression.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>5.  If you are considering moving to a new environment, and if you meet the minimum requirements as spelt out above, even if it appears that The Teacher Network has no suitable vacancies right now, please send us your CV.    We never know what the next assignment we'll get will be - and it just could be your "Perfect Job".</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>6.  From time to time, organisations which feel that the best candidate for one of their vacancies would be an ex-teacher ask us to help them fill vacancies.  If you would like to be considered for one of these posts, please indicate this clearly in your covering email.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>7.  The Teacher Network helps schools find staff.   We would love to have the time and manpower to offer free guidance and counselling to  people who aren't qualified teachers and/or to help people who need to obtain work permits, but we don't, unfortunately, offer these services. It isn't the work that our organisation does.  We help schools find staff.  The staff at your nearest university's Education Faculty as well as the Department of Home Affairs should be able to give you the information you need.  Also, we're not a salary survey organisation and we also don't give out information about what our client schools pay their staff.  We consider this confidential, so people who want us to tell them this information are always disappointed.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>8.  Don't arrange for someone else to phone or to send the CV on your behalf.  </B><B>It does not give a good impression</B><B>.  Send your CV yourself, from your own email address.  If there is a </B><I><B>really </B></I><B>good reason why someone else needs to do it for you, he/she should mention this in the covering email: for example, "My sister is spending three months travelling across the Australian Outback on a camel, to raise funds for FreeMe, and has asked me to circulate her CV before she returns to South Africa in January".  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>9.  Where applicants' covering emails contain errors, or give the impression that they are not the calibre of candidate our clients are looking for,  their CVs are not included in our database.  Similarly, if it is clear from their emails and/or the attached documents that their computer skills are not at the level our clients expect from applicants, their CVs </B><B><U>will </U></B><B>be rejected.</B></div> <div> <B> </B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>We look forward to receiving your CV,</B></div> <div> <B>and hope you have found this page </B></div> <div> <B>- and the CV MAGIC page -</B></div> <div> <B>helpful.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>INTERESTING&/RELEVANT ARTICLE(S) FROM THE INTERNET</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Careless applications end up in the deleted items box       (IOL NEWS: </B><B>30 April 2009 at 06h00) </B><B>  </B><B>   </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Although advice abounds on how to apply for positions and compile a CV, an alarming number of job seekers and interns still make classic mistakes that prevent them from getting jobs.</B></div> <div> <B>So says Claire Jackson of Alerting the Media, a boutique communications and PR consultancy in Johannesburg.</B></div> <div> <B>In an article posted on bizcommunity.com last year, Jackson appealed to prospective interns and job seekers to take more care when applying for positions.</B></div> <div> <B>"Occasionally I read them (applications), but more often than not, I delete them," Jackson wrote.</B></div> <div> <B>She went on to say that the PR and media consulting industry welcomes new talent and is desperate for young, energetic students, but that applications fail to impress.</B></div> <div> <B>"Professionalism and business etiquette are things we all strive to achieve on a daily basis, but I don't think students are being taught any such things," she elaborates.</B></div> <div> <B>"Starting an e-mail with "Howzit", sending an SMS asking for a job, or asking for my "advise" (sic) are a few ways of ensuring your e-mail application for a job will be deleted before I get to your name. Any sort of spelling mistake automatically irritates and bad sentence structure will make me question the degree and competence you are busy selling me."</B></div> <div> <B>Jackson's article elicited an avalanche of heated responses and even accusations of being a racist. Yet, many agreed she had a point: "Thank you for bringing this very important issue up," wrote Renay. "As a director of a PR agency, I get endless e-mails from students asking for jobs and internships.</B></div> <div> <B>"While I understand that they are entering the market and do not expect the world from them, I do expect some sort of professionalism. Most of the e-mails don't even have a cover sheet, just their CV, which I delete before opening. Those that have cover sheets are poorly written with major spelling mistakes." A rejected job seeker wrote: 'I fully agree… I sent an e-mail and did not receive a response, which means my CV went to the deleted box or she read it but was just unimpressed by it. I think the reason is that as students we tend to think that because we went to tertiary, the world owes us."</B></div> <div> <B>Jackson says that since the article appeared, the standard of CVs she receives from students that have been on to bizcommunity.com has improved. However, she maintains that the following advice is still applicable:</B></div> <div> <B>Make your CV stand out from the clutter. Show you've done research and how you'll be valuable to the organisation.</B></div> <div> <B>Have a strong understanding of what the company you are applying to join actually does. There is no point selling yourself if you haven't properly researched what each company does.</B></div> <div> <B>Don't use slang, don't send late night SMSes and don't write five page e-mails. Introduce yourself; give a few relevant points about yourself and your reason for wanting to work at the company. Attach an interesting and well-written, spell-checked CV.</B></div> <div> <B>Don't expect a response if you don't bother to get the right spelling of the name of the person you're e-mailing.</B></div> <div> <B>Don't mass mail your CV. A "Dear Sir/Madam" shows you up.</B></div> <div> <B>"This is basic and simple advice and I hope applicants read it and re-look the way they are currently applying for jobs or intern positions," says Jackson.</B></div> <div> <B>"Perhaps then they'll get positive responses and not find themselves in the deleted items box." </B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>---oOo---</B></div> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=165 BGCOLOR="#003399" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=24 BGCOLOR="#FFFF33" TEXT="#080000"> <div> www.schoolstaff.co.za                      E-mail: TheTeacherNetwork@iafrica.com                      Phone: 082 872 4174                                  </div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>