Confessions of a Teacher Recruiter is an educational project that helps both teachers and school leaders maximize the results of the teacher hiring process based on best practices and more than a decade of on-the-ground experience. The project is led by Tracy Brisson, a former Director of Teacher Recruitment for all of New York City’s public schools who now recruits teachers nationwide for districts and charter schools as a talent development and recruitment consultant. Make your teaching resume stand by reading the book Confessions of a Teacher Recruiter: How to Create an Extraordinary Resume and Hook Your Dream Job, featuring custom resume tips for teachers and sample resume templates.

1. Quick Press Kit and Overview
@TeacherRecruitr

2. What is Confessions of a Teacher Recruiter?
Confessions of a Teacher Recruiter is an
educational project that helps both teachers and
school leaders maximize the results of the teacher
hiring process based on best practices and more
than a decade of on-the-ground experience.
The project is led by Tracy Brisson, a former Director of
Teacher Recruitment for all of New York City’s public schools
who now recruits teachers nationwide for districts and
charter schools as a talent development and recruitment
consultant.
http://confessionsofateacherrecruiter.com

3. Confessions of a Teacher Recruiter launched
on May 1, 2013 with its first book.
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4. Confessions of a Teacher Recruiter: How to Create an
Extraordinary Resume and Hook Your Dream Job provides stepby-step resume tips for the following audiences.
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Newly certified recent graduates & students
Career changers
Experienced teachers who are exploring new opportunities
Anyone who is thinking about becoming a teacher
The book includes best practices on resume writing, such
as…
• Teacher resume examples that outline how to demonstrate your
excellence
• Detailed checklists to help to create your specific and unique resume
• Interviews with teachers who were successful in their job hunts
• Funny stories from almost 15 years of recruiting teachers
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To hook your dream
job, you have to follow
the official hiring
guidelines and unstated
rules at the same time.
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6. Our project is extremely relevant to the
education community. Here’s why.
It’s a tough time to launch a career as a teacher.
In September 2013, Monster
Worldwide, Inc. found that 78% of
teachers believe that it is more
challenging to find a job now than it
was a year ago.
Only 31% noted confidence in finding
future work within their profession,
placing them 10th out of the 11
professions surveyed.
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7. Teacher hiring is done at a larger scale than you think.
It’s easy to make
hiring mistakes.
Annually, approximately
200,000 teachers are hired
for open positions out of five
million processed
applications, creating
opportunities for many good
teaching resumes to be lost
in the process.
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8. Teacher hiring
impacts us all.
Economic research shows that the quality of
one’s teacher has been estimated to have two to
three times the impact of any other schoolrelated factor on student achievement.
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An extraordinary
resume is comprised of
extraordinary details.
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10. Confessions of a Teacher Recruiter is available as an ebook
and paperback and can be found at every major book retailer.
It’s cracked Amazon’s Top
25 list of bestselling resume
books multiple times.
Sold directly from our
store
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11. Author Tracy Brisson is a recognized career and recruitment
expert with in-depth knowledge of the education industry.
Tracy Brisson is the Founder and CEO of
The Opportunities Project, a national
talent development, coaching and
recruitment consulting agency.
She is a former Director of Teacher
Recruitment for all of New York City’s public
schools. Over her career, Tracy has
reviewed 20,000+ educator resumes and
hired thousands of applicants into teaching
positions.
Tracy is available to talk about topics related
to the teacher workforce, educational
recruitment, school or district hiring policies,
and teacher career management, among
other topics.
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12. Tracy has been a featured speaker at
universities and selective conferences
such as #140edu and TEDx.
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13. Confessions of a Teacher Recruiter has been well
reviewed by readers across the country.
“I thought finding a teaching position
would be easy after I graduated. Not
the case… I had applied for over 75
jobs in my area and never even got
the interview.
I read the first few chapters of this
book, tweaked my resume the next
day, and got hired within a week
after sending out my resume to a
new batch of districts…”
-A. Ross, Washington Teacher via
Amazon.com
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14. You can access a full press kit at the Confessions of a
Teacher Recruiter website.
Download HTML and PDF versions of
our press kit and a ZIP file of assets
related to the book, including…
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Press Releases
Logos and Images
Full Author Biography
Links to Video and Audio Clips
Past Publications
Social Media Channels
The press kit can be downloaded at
http://confessionsofateacherrecruiter.com/spe
aking-and-media/press-kit/.
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15. Contact Information
Tracy Brisson
Author, Career Coach, Recruitment Consultant
Founder of The Opportunities Project
Website: http://confessionsofateacherrecruiter.com
Download our free toolkit featuring teacher resume samples
5 Steps for Constructing Amazing Resume Bullets
Email: info [at] oppsproject.com
Phone: (347) 987-1490
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http://linkedin.com/in/tlbrisson
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