Education Career Fair 2020

The Virtual Education Career Fair gives school staff the opportunity to live chat with teaching candidates including many of UNC Charlotte's graduating student teachers.

The virtual fair will be held on Friday, April 3 from 10am to 12pm. Participating school staff will receive an email on March 25 with details about the event and a video that shows how the event work.

Key info about the event:
- staff don't need to be available for the entire timeframe of the event
- staff just need internet access to participate in the event - no download is required
- this is a live text-based chat; no video camera or microphone are required
- while the event is from 10am to 12pm, the live chat will be open from 9:30am to 1pm to give staff time to get comfortable with the chat feature in the morning and to continue conversations with students
- it's challenging to estimate expected student participation, but we believe there may be 125-150 students engaged in the chat
- we're encouraging Education juniors, seniors, and graduate students - in addition to graduating student-teachers - to engage in the chat
- the virtual career fair system doesn't have a built in way for students to share resumes; we recommend asking students you chat with to email you their resume
- if you have additional questions about the event now - or if you experience technical issues the day of the fair - contact us at careerfairs@uncc.edu or 704-687-0789

To help students' prepare for the event, we're providing some sample questions that they could ask school staff, although we will encourage them to create their own questions. Here are the questions we're sharing with them:

To any school staff member:
- What do you enjoy best about working for [school/district]?
- What do you think it takes to be successful at your [school/district]?
- Could you tell me about the interview process for teaching candidates?
- What are some of the characteristics that would make a teacher candidate a good fit for your school?

To ask school-based personnel (principals, assistant principals, teachers):
- What are you looking for in a new teacher?
- Do you expect to have openings in [grade level, subject] for the Fall?
- How does your school support beginning teachers?
- What are some key characteristics of a teacher at your school who really excels at their work?
- Could you share a success your school has had in handling recent COVID-19-related changes to schools?

To ask human resources staff (recruiters, Directors of Human Resources, HR Coordinators/Specialists):
- What are the best ways for me to stand out as a great candidate in the application process?
- What makes a teaching candidate stand out?
- What do you look for on a resume?
- What does the timing of the hiring process look like? When does your school offer interviews and then make job offers?





Updated - here is the list of expected number of candidates in each teacher licensure areas for Spring 2020 Education majors:

Birth - Kindergarten: 16
K-6 Candidates: 86
Middle Grades (Math, Sci, Lang Arts, Social Studies): 15
9-12 Math: 2
9-12 Bio/Sci: 2
9-12 English: 11
9-12 SS: 15
SPED Adaptive: 13
SPED General: 14
Special Education & Elementary dual licensed) K-6: 12
TESL: 7
Spanish: 2
Art K-12: 4
Dance: 2
Music: 6
Theatre: 2
Total: 209

UNC Charlotte's W-9 form is available online: https://careerfairs.uncc.edu/resources/W9.pdf

Questions about the event? Connect with us at careerfairs@uncc.edu.