Today was the Santa Clara County Office of Education Job Fair. There were districts from Santa Clara, Saratoga, Mountain View, San Jose, Los Gatos, Gilroy present. It was a very productive event in all.
I had my packets all set for the 11 districts that had high schools. My packets included a cover letter, resume, printed ed join app, letter of rec from Tera, Ron (my supervisor), and Daryl (my Bilingual methods teacher), my letter of good standing (that I will finish my credential in June), CBEST and CSET passing cards with a business card on top. I left mom and dad's about 8:20 am and was pulling up at the County Ed Office just before 9am. A friend who is a fellow candidate in HSU's program is going for math and is from Campbell also went. We met up before going in and that was nice to walk in with someone. She really wants to work and live in Monterey (who doesn't?) but her mom dreams of her moving back home and working for the Union School Dist. like she does. She left the fair rather early, around 11am.
There were so many people there! It was overwhelming at first! A lot of people were multiple subjects and the Single Subject people were mostly Social Science and English. While I was waiting in line for the Morgan Hill School Dist, the lady in front of me was a Special Ed person and she told me that she knew a science teacher for Campbell Union Dist who was retiring and so I gave her my business card and also went and had a short (5 minute, 5 question interview) which I think went well. Morgan Hill didn't have a job but the lady actually "chased" me down (I was in heels so it was like a slow speed chase...) and pulled me back to get me an interview slot. She told the interview scheduler that I was "dynamic, interview her." I ended up cancelling that interview because I got one at the same time with Santa Clara Unified and they actually had an opening.
I waited for Fremont Union for about 30 minutes and had a short screening. The lady looked at my resume and wanted to know about PEERS (Switzerland research proj).
So back to my job interview...I stood in line for the Santa Clara Unified School District. Ok, so I'm at the front and the guy came to me, shook my hand and brought me over to the corner where he was interviewing people over a cow. Not a moo-moo cow, I mean, yes a moo-moo cow but a moo-moo cow replica (it worked as a table for him). He said, "I hope you're not afraid of cows." Of course, I said that I grew up in Livermore, so no, I'm not. lol. He looked at (my cover letter was on the top) and he literally only read where I wrote my address. He asked me, "Are you a lumberjack?" I promptly answered, "Yes, I am." Turns out, he went to HSU and even did his student teaching at Winship Middle School which I was able to say that it is reopening for the fall.
Get this small world thing....the girl standing right across from me, talking to a different recruiter was also and HSU alum (class of 2011 Enviornmental Science). The guy started talking about HSU and his wife went there, one of his girls, and and his son currently plays football there.
Summary: he gave me the final interview for the district of the day. I interviewed with the vice-principal of Wilcox High School. They have a biology opening. They even have a school garden! It was a good interview for a preliminary one.
So that's the long, short version of my day.
Oh, I completely forgot! Dad's friend, Lee, is the HR director for the entire county. I found him and got to talk to him for a bit. He even was walking by where I waiting for my interview and came by and personally congratulated me and wished me luck. I felt pretty cool, having the HR director of the entire county come by and personally wish me luck on my interview.
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