Oh my where do I start on this one?!
As oxymoronic already said, it's not very worthwhile advice coming from a first year undergrad I'm afraid. It is certainly not true that schools will employ you just because you did well at placement....they're not companies who can find a bit extra money because you're valuable to them, they will only employ people if they have a space. Guaranteed next year my school will not employ a geography teacher as the four current teachers are all (barring any disaster) planning to work there again next year; even if a current ITT did amazingly well, it's not like the school would go "Oooh they're good let's just give all the geography teachers a reduced timetable and bring an extra teacher in".
Also, and please don't take offence from this, but "feedback from schools being positive" is not the same as "let's employ them". I'm not saying that your course isn't good as I don't know much about Primary, but the 'less traditional' courses are not generally favoured above those with PGCEs etc.
Completely agree
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I'm afraid that if you can't take a little bit of negativity then you shouldn't be thinking about being a teacher to be honest. If you want to brush the reality under the carpet, then go and find another job, because the teaching job market is competitive.
In no way has oxymoron lead people to believe that "OMG THERE'S NO JOBS!"; she has quite clearly explained her situation and tried to clear up the confusion that "Mr. Approachable" has caused due to him throwing all of these statistics around.
My opinion? Yes there are jobs out there if you're flexible. If you can move to where the jobs are then you shouldn't have too much of a problem. There are plenty of jobs out there but you have to remember that there are an increasing number of people with QTS and therefore increasing demand on those jobs.
However, don't tell yourself everything will be fine, it may be a while before you can find a teaching job in the current market. At the same time, stick with it and you will find something eventually