Looking for a job

This is the first of three blog posts on finding a job in teaching.  Here you are at the gateway to your career in teaching. You are deep in your training and your thoughts turn to how you can find and secure that first teaching post.  Finding your first post can be tricky: where do you look? What type of role should you be looking for? What area of the country do you want to work in? What year group would be your dream start to your career? Starting your search  Answering so many questions can be tricky. But what is important is that you find the right school for you. Utilising the DfE Teaching Vacancies website is a great place to start. This is a free-to-use service for schools to be able to advertise nationally for the vacancies they have. Using this site, you can browse jobs nationally by subject, age range or whether they are suitable for NQTs. Equally, if you know what you are looking for and where you want to be working, you can set up alerts for the roles that come out