I decided I’d go about asking the powers that be about online application forms for teaching posts. My intention for next year was to do this when hiring our next teacher. I rang the INTO and CPSMA. Basically the story is that we can’t do the online application thing. Technically we shouldn’t be even accepting email applications. It states in the guidelines:
“The advertisement shall invite applications with curriculum vitae”
“That applicants should mark envelope ‘Application’;”
“that a curriculum vitae must be submitted with the application” (CPSMA Handbook, p65)
Both the INTO and CPSMA people I spoke to were in favour of my proposals but said that they weren’t really even thinking about it. Eileen Flynn mentioned that even though it’s common practice in every other sector, what I’ve proposed is way ahead of its time for the teaching sector.
So, unless things change before the summer, it looks as if my board and I will be sifting through hundreds of envelopes again and potential employees will be spending hundreds of euro on envelopes and stamps whilst destroying several forests.
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Simon, check out http://www.vecvacancies.ie. I think you’ll find they do online applications, infact some VEC’s, Dublin for certain, only accept online applications. I can’t see what the difference is between VEC accepting and not the Primary sector. Maybe the powers that be don’t know that it is actually being done in their own sector!!