It is the end of the school year. You can go on holiday secure in the knowledge that you gave your students your best, that you helped them learn new things, gain more confidence and because of you most of the them really like coming to school. Your colleagues and your Principal value you and you ... Read More →
Understanding the Current New Zealand Teaching Market – A message from our Managing Director Stu Birch
Teach in NZLike many countries around the world, New Zealand has seen significant changes to teacher supply and demand following the last global financial crisis. We cannot ignore the fact that the teaching market was incredibly competitive from 2011-2015 with many teachers finding it difficult to secure a ... Read More →
10 Common Beginning Teacher Job Seeking Dilemmas
Job SeekingFinding a job as a beginning teacher can be difficult experience. Here at Education Personnel we work with lots of BTs and hear all sorts of stories. We’ve pulled them together into a list of the 10 most common dilemmas that BTs we meet face on their job seeking journey.Note: These scenarios are ... Read More →
Let Education Personnel help you find your perfect teaching role.
Job Seeking
At Education Personnel we strive for excellence. We build great relationships with our candidates in order to understand them better, so as to find the right teacher for the right school. The relationships we have built with schools nationwide helps ensure that we can find that perfect ... Read More →
A JFA Success Story: Christiane Turnbull
Job Find Assistance
Christiane is a Māori new graduate primary teacher who completed her training at the end of 2011. Prior to starting on the Job Find Assistance programme she had applied for 50 teaching positions but had not got any interviews. Gillian assisted Christiane with her independent applications for ... Read More →
Our Top 5 reasons to live and teach in Auckland
Teach in NZAuckland is New Zealand’s largest urban area by far, and with 1.4 million people is home to almost a third of New Zealand’s population. It has the largest population of Polynesian people of any city in the world, and almost 2 in 5 of its inhabitants were born overseas, with almost 5% of these born ... Read More →
What Relieving in Winter Taught Me
Relief Teaching
This is a guest blog post by Scott King, Team Leader of Education Personnel's Temporary Division and former primary teacher. Winter – the time when every relief teacher’s wildest dreams come true – the possibility of work on tap for a couple of terms. Winter is also a time when even ... Read More →
Your Relief Questions Answered
Relief Teaching
Scott King is Education Personnel's head of temporary recruitment. He has taught all over the world (including a few stints as a relief teacher), and loves to help teachers just starting their teaching journey.When you start out relief teaching, there's a lot you don't know, and you're more or ... Read More →