Employment: Preparing for a teaching interview

Our support doesn’t just stop at Outstanding teacher training, you will be supported in every step of your journey of becoming a teacher including facilitating your employment search. Our team, in particular our designated Employment Support Officer, assists our Trainees in their search for a job, helping them in finding vacancies, application work and interview preparation. Our work has proved to be extremely effective with Trainees already securing positions for their ECT year. One of our fantastic Trainees, Sian, discusses how our support has helped her increase her confidence for interviews.

Having already had an introductory online meeting with David where we chatted about my desires for work, as well as the jobs being advertised, he then offered me another in preparation for an interview day. An interview at a school he had made me aware of. This was arranged at short notice, to fit with my schedule, due to a quick turnaround with the application.

I had a lot of interview skills from years of being freelance and then running my own business, but specific and different education related questions can be quite difficult to answer. In our second online meeting David gave me plenty of time and allowed me to ask my many questions. It really helped me to feel confident and be ready for any eventuality.