What stress?

Part of the process is for schools to put invitations in your folder to ask you to interview with them, when you don’t get any or only a few, it can be a little discouraging. Don’t get down, putting together people and jobs takes a juggling act and takes some time to shake out. The other part is for you to put your resume into folders of the schools in which you have an interest. We finally ended up with 6 schools that wanted to talk with us, from what others have said, that is about the average number on interviews that get scheduled at first. We had already had our first interview on Monday morning before most everything got started.

The next day, Tuesday, we had breakfast with another school head, the one we had met on Sunday evening. He made us an offer (very attractive) at breakfast and we told him we would like to look at the other schools that had matches for us and we would let him know before we did anything else. From there we attended the signup for the teaching positions at the 173 schools that were still looking. We ended up deciding to take the offer that was made at breakfast, after looking at what was available to us from the other schools that had shown an interest. Based on our taking the offer, we contacted the other schools and the ISS office and took ourselves out of consideration. Having made the decision, allowed us some free time and we ended up having extra time in Boston to visit the city. It also allowed us to relax and not worry about finding the right opportunity. We had made a life changing decision in about 6 hours, if you have to spend a lot of time on decision making, this process will cause some stress.