{"id":5155,"date":"2015-07-31T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T08:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/?p=5155"},"modified":"2024-01-30T14:11:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T19:11:36","slug":"career-seminar-helps-grad-land-first-teaching-job-careerspc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/career-seminar-helps-grad-land-first-teaching-job-careerspc\/","title":{"rendered":"Career Seminar helps grad land first teaching job! #careerspc"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kelly \"kelly-Connolly\"<\/a>Connolly, a recent 39-year-old St. Petersburg College graduate from the College of Education<\/a><\/strong>, starts a new career at Tinker K-8 School in Tampa this fall. In 2006, Connolly graduated from Portland State University with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Psychology. With the desire to become a teacher, she overcame many obstacles and faced her fear of possible failure to achieve this goal.<\/p>\n

She enrolled in the St. Petersburg College Educator Preparation Institute<\/a>. The three-semester program is designed for those with a non-education bachelor’s degree or higher to become Florida-certified teachers. The SPC EPI program<\/a> requires students to attend a career seminar. Connolly choose the Hillsborough County Public School teacher interview-day, where she was interviewed by eight local schools. In the last interview for the day with Tinker, they expressed interest in hiring her but she needed the Elementary Education certification. A month later, Connolly passed the exam, completed a second interview and landed her first teaching position.<\/p>\n

\u201cAttending the career seminar was mandatory \u2013 and I am so grateful. I would never have landed where I am right now. A college that provides you with the resources to help you find a job \u2013 to me that is just above and beyond,\u201d Connolly said.<\/p>\n

If you want to learn more about opportunities with Pinellas County Schools (PCSB) you can view job openings here<\/a>.\u00a0 To learn more about job opportunities with Hillsborough County Public Schools click here<\/a>.
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\nSPC\u2019s Career S<\/a>ervices<\/a> helps prepare students for success beyond the classroom. For more information, please visit their website<\/a>. Or read more about Connolly on the college\u2019s Education blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kelly Connolly, a recent 39-year-old St. Petersburg College graduate from the College of Education, starts a new career at Tinker K-8 School in Tampa this fall. In 2006, Connolly graduated from Portland State University with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Psychology. With the desire to become a teacher, she overcame many obstacles and faced … Continue reading Career Seminar helps grad land first teaching job! #careerspc<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":544,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-5155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-stories","tag-career-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/544"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10644,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155\/revisions\/10644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/careers-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}