If my resume could talk, what would it say?  This should be interesting, even for me, since I’ve never looked at my resume for job leads.   This is a continuation from a previous article: [1] http://blog.brokebutnotforlong.org/diary-of-a-resume-how-i-found-some-great-jobs/.  Now I’ll share my job history from the past quarter of a century including the specific hiring sources to give you some job hunt ideas.  I’m an educator, so that certainly makes a difference, as most teaching jobs are on the school district websites.

1985-1987: Peace Corps recruited me on my university campus during a job fair.

1988-1989: Nashville Public Library through an ad for part-time work in the newspaper.  Also,  a part-time job teaching at a Church Preschool through a friend’s referral. During this time, I decided to go back to school for a masters since the pay was so low. (Transitional time after Peace Corps meant I was jobless for sometime.)

1990-1992: Graduate Teaching Assistantship through the university graduate student work opportunities helped me earn a stipend, receive teaching experience,  and get tuition remission while I earned my masters degree in TESOL.

1992-1993: US English Teaching Fellow to Mozambique was acquired through an interview at a job marketplace at a  TESOL conference.

1994: Springhill College part-time teaching ESL job was obtained by  calling the office and asking if they had any openings.

 Also got a summer camp job teaching ESL at Babson College by responding to an ad in the Returned Peace Corps Volunteer  job bulletin called HOTLINE.

Then I got another ESL job at a boarding school in Palm Springs for the fall through the same job bulletin, HOTLINE.  (This was also a transitional time coming back from Africa.)

1995-1997: Los Angeles Unified School District teaching job was obtained by the same Peace Corps job bulletin, HOTLINE,  as LAUSD was specifically recruiting former volunteers for their language expertise.

Then I answered an ad in the Los Angeles Times for an INTRAX ESL camp director for that summer (1996) and was able to do it again the following summer (1997).

1997-1999: UCLA demonstration teaching job was acquired through an ad in the Los Angeles Times.

1999-2001: Founded an ESL  tutoring company in Los Angeles.  Entrepreneurship landed me several tutoring jobs until 9-11 caused many companies to re-examine their student visas and employees work visas and I lost clients.

1999-2001: University of Southern California ESL teaching job was obtained by responding to an ad in the TESOL online Marketplace.

2001-2003: LAUSD teaching job was secured by responding to their school district website listings.

2003-2005: Hampton-Brown publishing job was obtained by responding to an ad in the Monterey Herald.

2005-2006: Salinas Unified School District teaching job was secured by responding to their school district website listing.

2006-2007: Baldwin County Public School System teaching job secured through the school district’s website.

2007 & 2010: University of South Alabama ESL part-time teaching job acquired by calling the office and asking about opportunities.

2007-2009: Florida State University research assistant job was acquired by responding to their website offerings.

 2009 to present: Founded nonprofit to help others find jobs.  I actually resigned from my last job to work on this organization, BrokeButNotForLong, Inc., and The Broke Blog.

2010: Online rater position for Educational Testing Services was obtained through [2] www.flexjobs.com. I usually don’t use sites that cost money but for my nonprofit, I tested it out and found this great job!  If you would like to give it a try, use this promo code for half off: SAVE50.

2010: Online teaching position with eTeacher was obtained through Indeed.com.  If you plan to use this site to look for jobs, please go to our job board to conduct your searches so we may earn a few pennies for our nonprofit: [3] http://brokebutnotforlong.org/18.html.

2010: University of South Alabama online college reading instructor position was acquired by talking to various administrators and colleagues in my department.

Best Wishes,

Sandra Annette Rogers

[4] sandra@brokebutnotforlong.org

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