@SpedMaestro the situation in my part of Australia, Victoria, is pretty tight. I live in a regional centre 2 hours north of Melbourne and as an example, we got 20 applications for a 3 day per week, 1 year contract position for the 2014 school year. A grad took a job up here having lived in Melbourne her entire life as the market was just too tough to crack in Melbourne at the moment.

Most jobs advertised in the public system are for 12 month contracts initially so aren't majorly enticing. The private system is likely inundated with unsolicited applications from teachers in the public system so all they seem to be advertising is maternity and long service leave replacement positions.

Like always, hard to staff subject areas have vacancies but like a lot of countries at the moment, Australia, and Victoria in particular, seems to be punching out more grads than there are positions. The baby boomers will soon retire and there will eventually be jobs for these kids, assuming they've stuck it out through contract employment and not hightailed it out of the profession.

My two cents

Two good websites for Australia are:

Independent Schools Employment (http://www.independentschools.com.au)

and

Teachers On Net (http://www.teachers.on.net)

Former is pretty much employment in Victoria, Australia whilst latter is nationwide.

This is a topic I am particularly interested in.

I am a single Dad with twin dependants. They won't be school age until 2015 but my plan is to take them overseas at that time. I am currently in my fourth year of teaching in Australia, having taught most Humanities subjects and a little but of English. Currently undertaking a Grad Dip in Economics as I figure am economics qualification will allow me to teach senior economics in the future.

So is it really as bad for people carrying two financial dependants as people are making it out to be? I'm not particularly fussy on location, just somewhere relatively safe, where my kids can learn another language and at a school that is half decent.

Sorry to hijack but thought I'd throw my own situation out there, esp. the single parent with two thing.

[quote="wrldtrvlr123"][quote="senator"]Sorry, Guys, but let's do a little Tough Love session.

Compared to the tragedies that a lot of people must endure - disease, injury, loss - not getting a job offer is a VERY minor thing.

I am always surprised? Saddened? Disappointed? that so many of the people who share my profession have so little resiliency and mental toughness that they seem to fall to pieces when they do not get an offer of employment.

Buck up! Keep trying and don't quit. Watch the movie "Lincoln" and others in that genre to see what REAL adversity is.

And to the others: STOP BEING ENABLERS.[/quote]
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Since when does empathy = enabling?

So some people get more emotionally invested in the process then you do. How does that make them wrong and you right?

I'm glad that knowing someone in the world has it worse than you do helps get you through the bumps and bruises in life but that doesn't mean that it works for everyone. In the immortal words of Sgt. Hulka, "Lighten up, Francis".

Being rejected and feeling bad about it is not the same thing as giving up.[/quote]

"If anyone touches my stuff, I'll kill em!"

I love Stripes. Thanks for the reminisce.