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  • ABC Teaching Jobs
    ABC Teaching Jobs is a classified network of teacher job postings. K-12 schools can find qualified teachers and job seeking educators can find teaching positions in education. ABC Teaching Jobs is a no fee service for all job seeking K-12 teachers and administrators. Job site is searchable, including media-library option.

  • American Association of School Librarians
    AASL is located from the American Library Association web site, and has information on school librarians, recruitment to school libraries, information on educational programs and certification across the country. It also includes a link to a bibliography on school librarianship as a career for those interested in researching it. Under recruitment, there is a link to “finding a job” which includes a list of links to job sites, most national, for librarians and school librarians.

  • Education America Network
    A basic job posting site with emphasis on education. Provides education employment opportunities in the U.S. as well as state certification and salary information, resume and cover letter writing tips, and interview advice. Site also offers links to international positions.

  • Education Employment Center
    Education World - Offers nationwide job listings of jobs. Site based on Education World's job search newsletter, allows user to subscribe to job search newsletter to find a job, and locate additional Education World resources that can help find a job in education. In addition to basic job search, site offers career resources, sites on career development, and a mailing list.

  • Education Week
    Can be searched by region or position. Site specializes in K12 jobs for teachers and administrators, and provides career-advancing news and intelligence. Through a free membership service, site also offers email alerts, resume posting, and job seeker resources.

  • Fifty States' K-12 Employment Opportunities
    Website run by University of Kentucky, and provides a list of 50 states to search for jobs. Links to job posting sites by state and jobs are all in education. Each state links to a statewide educational site, usually government site or Department of Education. Site includes links for nationwide certification information and international education job sites.

  • K-12 Jobs
    "K-12jobs.com concentrates on job posting opportunities available at kindergarten, elementary schools, junior high, high schools and vocational schools." Site is free for job seekers but requires creating a membership account, which includes job alerts and resume posting. Site also includes job resources such as information about career fairs, certifications, and other educational resources.

  • Professional Teacher.com: Career Center
    Site focuses on preparing for job applications, including information on how to write a resume, sample resumes, sample cover letters, and resume checklists. Site also offers information on how to successfully search for a job, interviewing, and preparing a portfolio. It also provides career advice, including a link on salaries and helpful books, courses, and web sites (currently in development).

  • Teachers@Work
    Job site is primarily focused on education and teaching professionals. Site has postings for teaching jobs in the U.S. and a resumé posting service. Job search site includes list of options to choose from in job selection, including media specialist and reading specialist (elementary level).

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California

Colorado

  • TeachInColorado
    Teachincolorado.org is a job site based in education job opportunities. It has information on Colorado based career and recruitment fairs, job openings, school districts, and about Colorado certification information. Job categories include several library-related positions, both for school media specialists and catalogers.

Florida

  • Florida Association for Media in Education
    This site includes an employment opportunities link at the bottom of its left navigation bar. It includes a search site, that allows searching by position level, state, country, and type of institution. The type of positions include are school library/media specialists, television teachers, and technology coordinators. Type of institution references what level of education and type of school (private, public, etc) in which employment is desired.

Indiana

  • School Media Jobs
    This is the School Media Job site of Indiana University’s School of Library and Information Science department. It includes information on job postings by email, SLIS careers page, job searches by students, and MLS career links. It also includes information on certification requirements. The student site includes information on interviews, resumes, workshops, and allows job searching by state or country-wide.

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Michigan

  • Michigan Association for Media in Education
    The site offers job titles including school library media specialists, school library, media and technology supervisors and coordinators, REMC directors and personnel, EMC and LRC directors, academic library/media faculty at university level, as well as students, teachers, principals, and other persons interested in library - audiovisual - media - technology areas of education. Jobs are listed by month.

  • Michigan Association of Public School Academies
    Site offers listing of job opportunities by school level, then by school. Schools are exclusively charter schools. Site does not appear to have a means of searching through job listings other than manually.

  • Michigan Regional Education Applicant and Placement Program
    Site is part of National School Applications Network, Michigan branch. It includes links to programs in other states (11 total: CT, IA, MI, NM, PA, GA, KY, MO, OH, TX, WI, with an additional US REAP, the national web site), information on employment in different Michigan school districts, applying out of state, customizing job searches. Site also includes information on job fairs. Job seekers can search for openings and post applications at the REAP site for free. The job search allows users to search by type of position, subject area, and region of the state. School districts pay a fee to participate.

  • Michigan School Jobs: GreatSchoolJobs!com
    Michigan School Jobs, requires MASB membership. Site offers teaching and administrative positions as well as resume posting. Search engine does not require logon to view jobs, and offers search category of “librarian.” (Search pulled a library media specialist position).

  • Michigan Teacher Network
    This site offers job listings based on education or educators, and jobs are primarily based in Michgan. Site also has links to other job sites, national job postings, tips for educators searching for employment, Michigan department of education, individual school districts, and Michigan job fairs.

New Jersey

  • Educational Media Association New Jersey
    Site lists job positions in New Jersey that are related to school media or school librarian positions. Site also includes media certification information for New Jersey.

New York

  • New York METRO Magnet Jobs

    New York METRO Magnet includes a job bank where local public, academic, special and school libraries post jobs

Oregon

  • Oregon Educational Media Association
    The Oregon Educational Media Association includes links for professional development and professional resources. The site does not include a job bank, but does include links to national and regional resources for Educational media and school library information systems, many with job sites.

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South Carolina

  • South Carolina Center for Teacher Recruitment
    This site is for teacher recruitment programs in South Carolina. It includes information on individual recruitment programs, information for prospective teachers, current teachers, and administrators. The Prospective Teachers section includes a list of job openings, as well as teaching scholarships and fellowships. Job site allows searching by district, region, criteria, school year available, and keyword search. Category includes media specialists by school level.

Australia

  • Teachers.On.Net
    A free service for teachers, offering jobs in Australian schools in a range of sectors and locations. There are two ways teachers can use the site to locate a job: Searching is available via state/location, teaching level, subject and job type categories, and teachers are also able to place their profile details and a CV online. Site allows searching by category which includes ‘library’, which pulled at time of searching two public library positions, one primary school and one college level library position. Jobs were professional, for “teaching librarians” and either were part or full time.

International

  • International Association of School Librarianship
    The International Association of School Librarianship includes information on research in school librarianship, resources online for school librarianship, international programs. It includes links to library associations, school library associations, and resources for professional development. They are not specifically job-related, but many associations include job pages on their sites.

  • International Schools Services
    This is the web site of International Schools Services, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to excellence for children attending international overseas schools. They provide a comprehensive range of educational services for schools, educators, families and corporations. It includes information on applying for international positions for the coming school year (2006/07). It includes qualification requirements, documents to be submitted, application fees, and on the side navigation bar, there are links to teaching positions, administrative positions, and International Recruiting Centers and their locations. Each site includes information on applying, resumes, interviewing, and letters of interest.

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