Thank you, eion and PsyGuy, for your responses! It has been a crazy last couple of days trying to figure out my next steps (and grading...lots of grading). I have only sent out one more application but I fear that it might be in vain as the school is incredibly well-known. Surprisingly, I was able to get a Search account. I'm almost positive I would have been turned down but leadership from my school wrote me excellent recs and my 'interview' with my now search associate went well enough that they thought I would be competitive enough. In my applications, I am not able to explicitly state, "Please don't think negatively that I only stayed a year. It was just for a year and I was covering a leave," but I hope I was able to convey that I'm leaving on good terms.

I'm very lucky that I have support from my school and if I tell them I'm applying somewhere they usually reach out for me. I had a second interview with the very good school who sent me a form to send out. The interview went well, I think, I got a positive response, but I haven't heard back from them. I had a first interview with another school. I think the biggest things that have helped me is the school I'm coming from and waiting until late February to start seriously putting out applications. I am see ing'good' schools adding positions on Search daily, so I hope that means school will be desperate–for lack of a better word–to hire someone that they won't care I'm a new teacher.

Hi all! I have been a lurker on this board for a couple months now and I finally decided it was time to post. I am in my first year teaching and I somehow landed at what would be considered by many to be a top-tier IS (this ranking system isn't really my thing but I understand it can give some context). My posting was only ever for one year, and I am currently looking for another IS job. I have applied to six schools total with two schools filling those positions the day following my application. I have had two interviews at a Tier-2 (bottom or mid, perhaps) Western European school; I have an interview with a Tier-2 Middle Eastern IS; and I had an interview with a very top-tier IS (I seriously have no idea how this one happened) and received a form to fill out following the interview. I will try to send out at least five more applications.

Do you have any advice on where I should look? I would like to not have to attend a fair. I have had very few job interviews ever and I do not know exactly what to expect. Are there good IS that want to help grow new teachers? I love everything about living overseas, but I hope it doesn't hurt that I haven't actually taught in the US outside of education program.