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About The myEDmatch Team

myEDmatch is an employment matchmaking site that helps educators and schools with shared missions, beliefs, and goals find each other.

Are you hiding your true value on interviews?

This week, enjoy the expressions of appreciation that give you pause, a fully belly, and teary eyes. These are important. But, if you’re in the job market, there’s one kind of recognition you’d like more than any other: that offer you’ve been waiting for. The ...

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Inside the Head of a Teacher Recruiter

Expertly.co, a startup that links schools to experts who can help with high-needs projects, recently hosted a Google+ Hangout: Inside the Head of a Teacher Recruiter. For more than an hour, teacher recruitment experts Tracy Brisson, former Director of Teacher Recruitment ...

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Finding “Fit” In Teaching: 11 Tips for Job Seekers

Making “fit”a focus of your job search could save you the stress and heartache that comes with a job that isn’t right for you. But, when you’re trying to find a job, just any job, fit seems like something extra that you ...

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3 Teaching Traits That Make A Talent Recruiter Take Notice

If you’re in the teacher job market, you’re probably asking yourself: What will make me stand out from the crowd? It’s a good question since every year more than half a million teachers change jobs and more than 160,000 others ...

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10 Books for the Education Job Seeker

Each of the following are great reads whether or not you’re in the job market—but if you’re looking for your first or next school home, the ideas found here can help you decide what matters to you and how to ...

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Make Data The Star of Your Teaching Resume

Recently we heard from a second-year teacher who admitted that while his resume was otherwise quite impressive, it had one significant weakness: a lack of objective data. At the year’s start, he’d fully intended to track his students’ academic progress in ...

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Should You Look for A New Teaching Job? Motivation Can Help You Decide

Teaching is hard work—even in the best of times. But add to it a year of strikes, school closures, and sequestration along with the typical spring of state tests, snowstorms, and senioritis, and it’s no wonder that Spring Break this year will be met ...

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