DODDS Hiring Question
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:16 am
I'd like some opinions from those of you familiar with DODDS if you don't mind.
Based on my muliple certifications and degrees, which are as follows:
Elementary Education, K-5
Hearing Impaired, PreK-12
ESOL Endorsement, K-12
Gifted Endorsement, K-5
Adapted Education, K-5
School Counseling, K-12 (projected grad date December 2012)
M.Ed. in Education of the Hearing Impaired
Ed.S. in Special Education
M.A. in School Counseling (projected graduatuon date December 2012)
How likely is it that I would be offered a job with DODDS compared to all the other competition out there currently?
I have four years of international experience in in the Middle East and Asia from 2000-2004 and 18 years teaching experience total.
I should probably mention that I was offered and declined a job with them in 2000. I had just moved back to the states from Korea to be closer to my aging parents which is why I declined the offer. It was a tough decision for sure as I had wanted to work for them for years. The job was for an elementary ESL position in Butzbach, Germany. That particular school wound up closing a couple of years later. I have often wondered if I blackballed myself with them for declining a position that was probably coveted by others.
So, eight years later I am in the process of updating my application with DODDS. I called and spoke with someone in their office who assured me that I had not been blackeballed by turning down a position in 2004. She said that turning down a position only invalidates you for an offer during the same school year.
Any opinions of the likelihood of getting an offer to teach? Ultimately, I'd like to be a DODDS counselor but would certainly accept a teaching position if that would get me in the door and, hopefully, move to a counselor position later on.
Another thing worth mentioning is that I was actually called for interviews for hearing impaired positions three separate times while living in the Middle East and Asia. I did not feel good about breaking my contracts with the schools that I had been with at the time. Maybe I should have but I'm loyal in that way, I suppose. Each time they called for an interview I told them that I was currently under contract with a school so it was mutally agreed that I would not even conduct the phone interview. It was ironic that I was finally called and offered the Germany ESL job in 2004 but could not take it because of the need to be near my aging parents.
With all my qualifications, I feel confident that I will get an offer once my application is complete. But then I also feel like maybe I have jinxed myself by not taking advantage of earlier DODDS opportunities.
If anyone can provide opinions or feedback I'd be grateful.
Thanks for reading this ever so long post.
:):):)
Based on my muliple certifications and degrees, which are as follows:
Elementary Education, K-5
Hearing Impaired, PreK-12
ESOL Endorsement, K-12
Gifted Endorsement, K-5
Adapted Education, K-5
School Counseling, K-12 (projected grad date December 2012)
M.Ed. in Education of the Hearing Impaired
Ed.S. in Special Education
M.A. in School Counseling (projected graduatuon date December 2012)
How likely is it that I would be offered a job with DODDS compared to all the other competition out there currently?
I have four years of international experience in in the Middle East and Asia from 2000-2004 and 18 years teaching experience total.
I should probably mention that I was offered and declined a job with them in 2000. I had just moved back to the states from Korea to be closer to my aging parents which is why I declined the offer. It was a tough decision for sure as I had wanted to work for them for years. The job was for an elementary ESL position in Butzbach, Germany. That particular school wound up closing a couple of years later. I have often wondered if I blackballed myself with them for declining a position that was probably coveted by others.
So, eight years later I am in the process of updating my application with DODDS. I called and spoke with someone in their office who assured me that I had not been blackeballed by turning down a position in 2004. She said that turning down a position only invalidates you for an offer during the same school year.
Any opinions of the likelihood of getting an offer to teach? Ultimately, I'd like to be a DODDS counselor but would certainly accept a teaching position if that would get me in the door and, hopefully, move to a counselor position later on.
Another thing worth mentioning is that I was actually called for interviews for hearing impaired positions three separate times while living in the Middle East and Asia. I did not feel good about breaking my contracts with the schools that I had been with at the time. Maybe I should have but I'm loyal in that way, I suppose. Each time they called for an interview I told them that I was currently under contract with a school so it was mutally agreed that I would not even conduct the phone interview. It was ironic that I was finally called and offered the Germany ESL job in 2004 but could not take it because of the need to be near my aging parents.
With all my qualifications, I feel confident that I will get an offer once my application is complete. But then I also feel like maybe I have jinxed myself by not taking advantage of earlier DODDS opportunities.
If anyone can provide opinions or feedback I'd be grateful.
Thanks for reading this ever so long post.
:):):)