Job Hunt

I'm looking for teaching jobs, and the process is excruciating, largely because there doesn't seem to be any way to understand the jargon, the requirements, the steps you have to take or anything else about the process unless you're either a freshly minted education graduate, or have gone through it before. I fit neither category.

So I'm struggling to complete on-line applications that "require" I be certified, which I'm not, only to learn what I actually need to do is send the county a copy of my Assessment for the Certification of Educators (ACE) exam scores. Where is that noted on the website? Nowhere. How do I know to do that? I don't, unless I call. By the way, you'd think if you just passed an exam entitled "Assessment for Certification," you'd be certified. Nope. How do I know? Not from any websites, that's for sure.

Oh, and one other thing -- every county is different, with a different application process. So you have to get your transcripts, references and SAT scores sent to each one separately. The transcripts from one school cost money ($5 each, but I have two transcripts from there, so it's $10 per county), and I have to fax the request to each school. No longer having a fax machine, it's $4 per county ($1 per page). Most of the reference requests are on-line, but some aren't. And on, and on. I think I'm giving up for today, and back to it tomorrow.