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I am moving to Australia in 2017 and I want to work in Education in the IT/Database side of things. Does anyone know which School Information Systems are in use in Australia? I believe in state schools each state has it's own system. I have found out that Queensland uses OneSchool. Does anyone know what is used in other states? Does anyone know of any other systems that are used by the private schools? Any info would be appreciated as I want to work in this field. Thanks

Well I just read through all 49 pages of this thread and wow is there a lot of information here. As I was going I copied and pasted out parts which I thought were helpful from other people's posts. This may be handy for other people so I'm sharing it here. Please note that none of this is from my own knowledge and experience and if anyone has any suggestions or corrections then I would be glad to know. I won't actually be starting my job hunt for a couple of years (at least) so this will hopefully help others in the mean time. Where to Find Jobs: Register with Hays, SEEK and SMART teachers SEEK: http://www.seek.com.au/education-training-jobs SMART: http://www.smartteachers.co.uk/workinaustralia HAYS: http://www.hays.com.au/jobs/education-jobs/ SMART teachers seem to have a good presence in QLD. TES Australia….TES is good for NSW: https://jobs.tesaustralia.com/ Teachers on net: https://www.teachers.on.net/ Private School Jobs: http://www.independentschools.com.au/ The Age Newspaper on a Saturday. http://www.anzukteachers.com.au/ Recruitment Agency http://education.qld.gov.au/hr/recruitment/teaching/tracer/ QLD relief teaching Government pages of each state: Each state has its own local govt page with a number of jobs on. It might be worth registering with the council of international schools as they are dotted across Australia. They are also holding their annual conference in Australia this year: http://www.cois.org/ Also the International Baccalaureate schools advertise on their own site: http://www.ibo.org/country/AU/ The Catholic Education have their own recruitment process and as they are unionised, their pay is more in line with state awards: http://www.ceomelb.catholic.edu.au/p...lic-education/ All of the adverts will ask you to address the Australian National Standards in your application. Now is the time to go to the website and familiarise yourself with the standards. http://www.aitsl.edu.au/australian-p...s-for-teachers CV TIPS Keep your cv short. 2 pages or so. Add a covering letter. Answer key selection criteria with examples of how you have met each criteria in your teaching. You need detail. 7 KSC may take 3 pages or so. Selection criteria applies in every state and each is different. For my present position I sent in five pages of selection criteria, plus a four page CV and a one page covering letter. Pretty standard for education. You also need to modify and change as time goes on, you can't just keep sending the same application in of course. In WA government positions demand that the selection criteria is addressed against the National Professional Standards for Teachers. So my advice there is to go on the website and familiarise yourself with the standards. All the jobs for the new school year are sorted by end of November July start. Aug-Nov is the main time, I would say Oct was the busiest time July and August is the main time. Doing this, I've received an interview for every job I've gone for in maths and science. Spent some time on the ACARA website. Worth a read. http://www.open.edu.au/careers/education-training/teachers-secondary-school STATE SPECIFIC INFORMATION Victoria state school system: http://www.education.vic.gov.au/hrweb/careers/pages/advacssch.aspx Queensland registration: http://www.qct.edu.au/registration/ Required: IELTS certificate - not 100% I needed it but I sent it. Degree Cert Degree Transcript PGCE Cert PGCE Transcript Passport References from schools I have worked in over the last 5 years Statement of service letters - basically guaranteeing I was employed. Registration is always provisional until you have completed a minimum of 200 days in a Queensland school. You then have do collate an evidence folder of how your teaching meets the professional standards. Then the school signs off on your full registration. I guess it is similar to a NQT year if you had to do one of those. I didn't do an NQT year so it was new to me. Easy to do, just a paperwork faff. This might be hard to do if you are a casual relief teacher but there is some advice on the QCT website on how to accumulate your evidence. Regards to teaching in QLD, it is really different here to most other places in regard to employment. You can't just apply for job vacancies as they are not advertised (only private schools) because it is all government based. The government have to interview you, give you a rating then they will offer you a permanent position somewhere where teachers are urgency needed - Regional or Far north Queensland. There is however a lot of Relief work available here. I have currently got 3 job share contracts and relieve the one day in-between. As far as permanency goes in state schools, it is a tricky now, but contract and relief if pretty good here- and pays well. :-) NSW: http://www.dec.nsw.gov.au/about-us/careers-centre/school-careers/teaching/our-programs-and-initiatives/overseas-trained-teachers/approval-process POMS IN OZ VISA TRACKER LINK: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AkrdCphtU8u-dGJQSWROUlZ0bThIaUF2VW9zdUZmMlE&type=view&gid=277&f=true&sortcolid=-1&sortasc=true&rowsperpage=1000

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