The International Schools Review Forum

Looking back, now that we're in August and the school year is beginning, I feel like I saw a lot fewer jobs being posted and far fewer, if any, schools still searching for teachers late in the hiring season. Though I did get cold-called in April by a LATAM school hunting for a math teacher, even though my profile in the system they viewed showed I'd be available in 2027!
Anyway, just curious about veterans of the IS field thought about the past year's recruiting season. My hypothesis is that the changing political landscape in the US is pushing more American teachers to look overseas, hence the creation of a buyers market for ISS.

We are only 2 years post global COVID. While its August most of these staffing decisions were made about a year ago so even less time.
There were fewer posted vacancies with recruiting services but a substantial number of vacancies recruited and filled independently of outside recruiting avenues. ITs moved around locally and did so by checking HR websites of various ISs/DSs. So more local movement and less international movement. There also seems to be a mindset that had increased many ITs aversion to risk as a result of COVID and fueled by current political and economic factors that have increased ITs priority for stability.