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I was JUST in your position! I started my long distance job hunt this spring. I knew that I had to relocate so I had no choice but to find a job up here! I looked online, which was some help, but not much. Very few of the really good positions are listed online. One thing that did help though was to look in the classifieds in the online version of the city's newspaper. I was looking for a teaching position, in a subject area that is currently NOT in demand. So their weren't a whole lot of listings. I made sure I told everyone within earshot that I was looking for a job in RI. It turned out that a professor at my school, who is also like a father to my husband had a secretary who was from Rhode Island and she is best friends with a superintendent up here. She contacted her for me and then long story short, she didn't have any positions in her district, but she agreed to distribute my resume at a big meeting of all the superintendents. I was eventually (3 months later) contacted by a school district that wanted to interview me so I went in the next week (having already moved here only the week before!) and they interviewed me and offered me the job the next day. So don't underestimate the power of spreading the word, sending resumes, using your connections!
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