Hello all,

Has anyone seen any counselor positions lately? If so, where?

Thanks in advance.

I second that nomination Musings28. PsyGuy you are awesome and helpful to everyone who has questions. Thanks to all of you who have contributed over the years through asking and answering questions. Although this has been my first post, I have been reading this forum for a couple of years and it has been very helpful!

Thanks for the response PsyGuy. We are in our early 30s. You summed it up exactly: finding a vacancy for both of us when are each qualified in only one area may pose a problem. We are both considering getting another certification in order to broaden our possibilities. I'm not sure of the turnover of counselors at international schools but in the States people tend to stay for years. Vacancies are typically few and far between unless their are problems with the administration. Finding a school with an administrative vacancy and a counselor vacancy at the same time would be difficult. We were concerned about one of us accepting a position and the other not working for several reasons. If a position becomes available once we are overseas and we were able to get hired, then we would be a local hire.

Hello everyone,

I am a licensed second year middle school counselor (not including my year of interning at an IB school). I am licensed for k-12 school counseling. My husband is licensed as well and has taught for 8 years. He is licensed in a couple of areas birth- k, family and consumer sciences (which includes early childhood education, career management, life skills, etc), and school administration. We also have 2 children. We are in the process of registering with Search (waiting for evaluations to be sent back in) and are contacting schools directly. Based on our experience, what do you think our chances are of getting hired? My husband would like to move directly into administration however, this is his first year of being a full time school administrator. I am also wondering if I should pursue an additional certification in psychology (I have a BA in psychology) to increase my marketability.

We are both employed in the States and we are not in a position where we fear for our jobs (at the moment) but we always planned to pursue jobs overseas. By registering with Search we would have the 3 year access to their database and we are concerned that maybe we should start until we have more years of experience in our certification areas. Any thoughts or insights anyone can offer would be helpful. We are open to going any country. We have a long list of schools in various countries whose websites we check frequently. Thanks in advance.