Thank you everyone! These are all great responses and for the most part it has deterred me from calling a lot of schools. However, I may give it a try to see what the response is like. Since I have no experience teaching and am just getting my bachelor of education in April, I can see why I have not gotten a response to any of the emails I have sent out.

Yea I can definitely see it becoming annoying.
Well in that case I would want to maximize that one call as much as possible. Should I attempt to speak with a principal? or just the person that organizes the hiring process?
Should I try to coordinate it so that I call at lunch time? or early morning maybe right before school starts?
Throw out any ideas and I'll start doing this and let everyone know how it works out.

I have always been a big advocate of doing the things that nobody else is doing, the things that are difficult, the things where you are likely to get rejected.

Going along with this, I want to start calling schools in different countries that have job openings in my field. Rather than sending emails and waiting for responses, I feel this would be much more effective. But it's "just" a feeling.

What do you think? Is it too over the top? Have you ever done this before and asked to talk to a principal or someone involved in the hiring process?

And JustBean, it's a three year membership at Search for that amount I believe. The extra 4 months that I'll have from January to April to apply to schools will be invaluable.

Thanks for the awesome info shadowjack and sitka. Your guidance has helped me a lot

JustBean, they do know that I am not graduating until April 2014, it must depend on who your husband's advisor is. Perhaps try switching advisors? I chose Robert Barlas and he is quite aware of my situation. I think the only other one for Ontario is Mr. Sparks.

@Shadowjack Thanks! There is no way I'm going to teach English in Korea, not even for a couple of years because of you exact point - no teaching experience.

I don't mean to sound picky but I don't think I would ever go to Kuwait or Egypt. Yes I am sure I am misinformed about these countries, but my mom would have a heart attack every single day I was there. I just don't think I could do that. I will also look at TIE online, but is there much of a difference in the database than with search associates? I signed up with them just the other day and they have about 120 jobs Biology and chemistry alone.

I have also just signed up to the paid version of ISR

I am catholic christian and I think a lot of the schools are evangelical christian, I can ask the schools directly if that matters but if you have the answer then let me know.

The only fair I could realistically go to is the Toronto fair which is I think the worst one out of them all.

@Sitka
that's awesome I had no idea about those schools! It seems there are a bunch of them. Are these not considered international schools? that's so cool and thanks for the info. I wonder if I could apply to a BC school in Korea even though I am from Ontario, I'll look into it.

@eion_padraig
The only thing I'm considered about with China are the internet restrictions. I run a blog as a part time job on the side and I'm not sure if it would be blocked. Other than I see a lot of job openings there so I will definitely apply. I think I'm going to shoot for applying to a job a day over the next month just to get my foot in the door.

That's great I didn't think about being able to converse with Korean students at the international schools. I just assumed there wouldn't be very many at all.
Yes, I believe you can go up north and that's something I'm also looking into, but I'd rather get international school experience :)

Hello everyone!

I'm graduating from a BEd in Ontario, Canada in April to teach Biology and Chemistry (grades 7-12)

I've already become a member of Search and I'm deciding whether or not I will attend the job fair in Toronto from Jan 24 - 26. The TORF job fair is also that weekend and waiting to here back from then on whether or not I have been accepted, I'll found out in a couple of days.

I am looking for some advice to represent myself as a viable candidate to possible employers even though I have no experience. If a school is going to hire a BEd candidate, what would they be looking for?

I am also curious of what I should expect over the next 8 months of applying to schools for jobs. When do most of the positions fill? Should I keep my eye out all the way until August?

For those of you who don't know, the Canadian market is completely saturated and it is almost impossible to get a supply job in Ontario. My city graduated something like 300 candidates last year and hired only 13 people on the supply list. I know people who have been in the supply list for 8 years without a full-time job lol

And lastly, my first pick is to work in Korea since I attended exchange there before and I want to continue learning the language (it is a life goal of mine to become fluent). I eventually want to end up back there for an extended period of time. I am extremely motivated, and I love teaching. I am willing to do a lot to get a position next year, especially in Korea. Please lend me some direction even if it is some absurd highly dangerous way of getting an employers attention ;)

Thanks for everything, and if you have any informative threads I should read please post them. I'll keep searching around the forum for some answers .