I am a secondary Maths teacher with 9 years teaching experience in the Uk.
We arrived 6 weeks ago and I haven't been able to get any sort of work. Nothing!!
I have visited about 20 secondary schools, handed in my CV and teacher registration, followed up by an email, also called a couple of the schools. I haven't even managed to get 1 days supply work. I have been told by several schools that they have regular teachers that they use for supply work but "will keep me in mind if something comes up. I have also offered to do some volunteering/observing of teaching but still nothing.
We are just in the fortunate position that my husband got a job within 10 days of arriving.
The ironic thing for me is that it is my skills/qualifications that got us here and I can't even get by a school reception desk.