LOOKING TO HIRE

IS THERE A LIST OF SEARCH PARTICIPANTS I CAN INTERVIEW TO TEACH AT MY SCHOOL?

You can contact the SEARCH California Director of Recruitment (see contact page) to identify potential hires. SEARCH staff members will be happy to arrange a meeting to discuss your needs. During this meeting, the staff member will share specifics about the program and will gather information to become your "unpaid recruiter" in order to look for a participant to meet your long term goals. SEARCH participants are usually hired without great difficulty, so there is normally not a list of participants available. However, as the staff recruits and assists new program participants your long-term needs will be addressed. 

WHY SHOULD I HIRE A SEARCH PARTICIPANT OVER ANOTHER CANDIDATE?

You should hire an experienced industry professional making a mid-career change to teaching only if you seek these qualities:

  • MATURITY. SEARCH participants have learned many lessons about human relations, stress management, priority setting, leadership and sacrifice that can only be gained through experience. Most SEARCH participants are in their forties and this maturity is available to the students for decades to come, while the cost to the district is equivalent to hiring a recent young college graduate.
  • COMMITMENT. The retention of mid-career changers far exceeds the average teacher. This longer retention is evidence of the commitment of SEARCH participants to the children, school and administration and the participant's decision to make teaching a professional career choice.
  • PROVEN TEAM MEMBER. Successful industry experience demands that each individual work for the good of the team and not self.
  • ALWAYS PREPARED FOR LESSONS. By hiring proven professionals, you can be assured that their prior experience has taught them to never enter a classroom unprepared and try to "wing it."
  • DEDICATION. SEARCH participants have made the mature, studied decision to pursue a new career.  They do not go into teaching "to try it out." Mid-career changers have evidenced the focus and dedication to transfer their previous success to the classroom.
  • LOYALTY. SEARCH members have most often operated in a large bureaucracy and know that only through loyalty to the process and their leaders will the right things get done. SEARCH members support principals and their authority.
  • CREATIVE THINKER. A successful career in industry required SEARCH participants to constantly be looking for a better way to do things. They have been successful in using technology to address solutions in new ways.
  • SUPERIOR WORK ETHIC. Being successful in industry has never been a "9 to 5" job. This strong work ethic that was developed to be successful in a technical career has earned most SEARCH participants the reputation as the first to arrive and last to leave at their schools.