inactive status and other bad news...

on top of other bad things on monday, i happened to check my application status on the PC website and this is the message i got:  "your application has been withdrawn from active consideration…"

i called to find out what was going on and was told that due to budget reductions in washington… blah, blah…  i was supposed to have received an email on the first of august regarding this and was informed in no uncertain terms that it is the applicant's responsibility to make sure they receive PC emails.  how i'm supposed to know there is one so that i can be sure i received it was not something she could answer.  particularly when the error was on their part when they transposed two letters in my email address.  so she re-sent the email to me with instructions to respond right away to her (the original email only gave one week to respond, and if you didn't you became automatically inactive for consideration.)

so the email tells me that due to budget cuts, etc… the number of people being sent is reduced and i can't be placed in the timeframe they had said, so i should write back and let them know if i still wished to be considered for the future.  well of course i do!!  and here's the weird part – they now have me tentatively planned for january – march of 2012, exactly the timeframe i had hoped for.  now i am "active" again.

so not all bad news is all bad.  but wait, there's more.

today i get another email from them saying that normally the assessment for suitability is done after the medical and legal review, but because of these cuts they are now doing the suitability review first, basically to narrow the number of candidates even being considered.  not bad news in itself, but combined with their request for all of my teaching experience (which i don't really have), my final transcript and completion date for the teaching certificate (which i don't have), and a separate teaching experience/expertise form to be filled out (which i can't)… i may have a problem.  i suspect that my engineering experience doesn't count for anything anymore and only solid teaching experience will cut it.  which means i will be passed up if they have any kind of certified teachers applying.

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