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What not to do in an interview! Teacher Interviewees
I'm sitting on an interview committee (to find my replacement as I move to another department next year) and we had some of the WORST candidates I have ever seen. And these are people who made it through the initial screening process too! We saw 8 Friday and more today. Friday we had 3 show up in casual clothes, one in sweat pants! My principal didn't even let that guy in the room to interview and had some words with him outside. One who had a resume that was 4 pages long- and hardly any of it had to do with teaching.
And last but not least the person who answered the classic question so wrong. "Why did you go into teaching?" Her answer was "because I want to work shorter days and have summers off, you guys got an extra vacation too." She was completely serious! And that extra vacation- furlough days! Who answers that question like that? I didn't think anyone actually believed that, or would still believe that after student teaching. I sure don't work shorter days- and I work summer too! I especially didn't think anyone would be dumb enough to admit it in an interview. Ugg, I hope today goes better. I created most of this course from scratch and I don't want to turn it over to just anyone. The principal was going to call references this weekend on the batch today, hopefully it will help. I'm very much not looking forward to the hours of 3-6 today.
Re: What not to do in an interview! Teacher Interviewees
That sucks - what a waste of your time
Props to your principal for not even bothering to interview the guy in sweats. Who on earth shows up to an interview like that?!?!
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This is for a teaching position? As in, these are degree-holding, qualified teachers?
I cannot believe it, that's insane.
Wow!
When I was interviewing, I was in the office waiting with another candidate. It was 90-degrees out and I was wearing a suit. The other candidate was wearing a tank top and capris. I couldn't believe it! Who does that? Apparently, more people than you'd like to think!!
As a teacher about to be thrown back into the applicant pool, this is giving me a lot of hope. Why would anyone ever say they became a teacher for the summer's off?
Good luck to you today!
Ok, I'm not getting thrown back, but am working on returning, so this does give me hope! Wow! I even took my sub paperwork in wearing a suit as I didn't know who I would end up meeting!
At least it helps you weed out the crazies!
I think my principal got a bit snarky with the guy(which is why I love her). She took him outside and it was one of those scenes where we could see them through the window but not hear anything and we were adding our own dialogue.