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Anonymous survey answerSurvey Nº 195

It’s a ‘job for the boys’ system of who you know & not what you know with many roles advertised on Facebook. You can’t get a job locally as you are not known due to the computer allocating you elsewhere.

Left chartered accountancy, then allocated my 5th council

Published 5 October 2026 · 1 min read

Employment situation
No longer seeking teaching work
Sector
Primary

I left a well paid job as a chartered accountant to pursue a career in teaching. I worked hard for my PGDE then was allocated my 5th council and from that point I felt completely unsupported by teaching as a whole.

It’s a ‘job for the boys’ system of who you know & not what you know with many roles advertised on Facebook. You can’t get a job locally as you are not known due to the computer allocating you elsewhere. The whole system is run in a very unprofessional manner.

This is answer 195 of the 269 written answers that teachers let us quote anonymously in the Scottish Teacher Employment Survey 2026. It answers the survey’s last question: what do the people who make decisions about teacher employment need to know?

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