For all other non-teaching jobs, please go to the Job Board, which can be accessed through the Work in Peel pages of the Peel District School Board website.

Successful candidates will be required to submit a satisfactory criminal record check prior to the commencement of any employment duties.  Recent changes made by the RCMP have resulted in significant processing delays for some candidates.  You may wish to start the process to obtain your criminal record check as soon as possible.  All teachers working in Peel require an Ontario Teachers College (OCT) certificate and a medical certificate. Student teachers and teachers from outside Ontario should note that Ontario College of Teachers has indicated that currently it takes a minimum of six to eight weeks to receive membership in good standing with the College enabling you to teach in Ontario. Therefore applications should be made as soon as possible to start work in September. Teachers must also have OCT qualifications for the subject areas/grades advertised.

Occasional teachers and student teachers working at the Peel District School Board can apply for full-time teaching positions using VIP. Full-time teachers at the Peel District School Board must use the staff transfer and surplus procedures outlined in the-G32 and G33 memos to apply for other teaching positions in Peel.

Yes. The Peel District School Board only accepts applications for teaching jobs online. To apply for jobs beginning in September, you must apply using the online VIP system, which is available free from the Peel District School Board.

Full-time teachers currently employed by the Peel board should follow the process and timelines outlined in the staff transfer and surplus process procedures outlined in G32 and G33 memos to apply for other teaching positions at Peel.

No.  Job applicants should register for free on VIP where all available teaching jobs will continue to be posted.

To apply for teaching jobs at the Peel District School Board, it is not necessary to pay a fee and register for ATTN. You can subscribe for free to VIP, the Peel board online service for teaching job searches and applications. All teaching jobs for September will be posted only on VIP.

No. At this time, only available teaching jobs will be posted on VIP, and only those applicants external to the Peel board—student teachers, occasional teachers, and certified teachers outside Peel—are eligible to use VIP. Full-time teachers currently employed by the Peel board who wish to apply for jobs within the board must follow the process and timelines outlined in the surplus and transfer process and the G32 or G33 memos.

There is no cost. VIP is free for all external job applicants for available teaching jobs. External applicants include student teachers eligible to teach by September, occasional teachers, and other certified teachers not currently teaching in Peel.

Email is the fastest and most efficient way for the Peel board to communicate changes and updates, technical problems and their solutions, and job status to VIP subscribers. While applicants will probably be contacted by phone for job interviews, e-mail can provide an alternative means of communication in some cases. In addition, an e-mail address is required to ensure the security and confidentiality of the information provided at the time of registration on VIP.

If you don't have an email account, VIP links you to web sites that provide free email.

There are no official cut-off dates for registration or posting a resume on VIP. However, due to the high number of job applicants and postings for September, jobs will generally be posted for only short periods of time. Therefore, it's to your advantage to be registered with an up-to-date resume posted as soon as possible, so you're ready to apply as soon as jobs become available. It is important that you carefully review the timelines indicated within each job posted.

You can continue to update your resume as new information, such as OCT numbers, are available. However, your resume must be “online” before applying for jobs, because principals can only view online (posted) jobs. It's important to note that you will need to apply to specific job postings.

Register now! That way you can start to receive news and updates about job postings as well as handy tips for applying for jobs. By registering now and submitting your resume, you'll be ready to apply for jobs as soon as they are available.

Yes, you can apply for jobs as soon as the postings are available. However, it's very important that you state when you are available to teach, be it a date after you graduate or after a contract is finished. For the greatest efficiency, principals have to conduct interviews with these dates in mind.

Job postings for the upcoming school year will begin in late April/early May. Additional postings will appear throughout the year.

Your subscription will automatically be deactivated if you accept a permanent job in Peel or if there is no activity for a year. As a courtesy, we ask you to unsubscribe or notify us if you are hired elsewhere or no longer wish to pursue jobs at the Peel board. Once your subscription is deactivated, your resume, personal information, and job applications list will be deleted from the system.

The News and Update page, which you will see after logging in to My VIP, will keep you up to date. We'll also email you information about hiring timelines and let you know when the first jobs are posted. Once job postings begin, it will be a good idea to visit VIP often, because postings may only be online for a short time.

Whenever you “finish” entering or updating your resume or a job application, if you are sent to a page outside My VIP, you will be logged out. If you are logged in to My VIP and for any reason wish to leave your session, it is important to log off. Simply going to another web site will not guarantee that you are logged off and your information is secure. This is especially important if you are using a computer that is publicly accessible, such as in a library or cybercafe or even an office. By the way, this advice is applicable to any online subscription you may have, including online banking.

As a security measure, you should change your password if you think that you may not have logged off VIP properly after a session. This is especially true if you are using computers in public areas such as libraries, cybercafes and even offices. As a further precaution, you may wish to change your password every few weeks. Some companies insist that employees change their passwords as often as every six weeks. You can also change your password if you find it difficult to use for any reason. Upon entering My VIP, just go to “Change My Password” at the top of the screen.

If you don’t find the information you need in the Frequently Asked Questions, then go to the Help Desk. From Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm ET, you may use an 800 or local telephone number to call a support person, who will help you immediately or find the answer for you. Twenty-four hours per day and seven days per week, you can send your questions by email and they will be answered as quickly as possible. The Help Desk can provide answers to technical problems. Solutions to problems that are system-wide, that is a system malfunction, will be sent to all subscribers by email.

There is no fixed deadline for posting your resume “online.” However, you can't apply for jobs until you have your resume online so that principals can view it. While you can take your resume “offline” after it is posted online to make corrections or updates, it is wise to have your resume as up-to-date as possible before you start applying for jobs. That way, little time will be lost making changes to your resume when your focus is on applying for jobs as they become available.

When you enter all or part of your resume the first time, you will be asked at the bottom of the Review page, where you can see what information you have entered, if your resume is ready to be searched by Peel board principals. You can answer “yes” or “no.”

If your answer is yes, then your resume will be posted online. This means that it can be viewed by others, in this case, Peel principals and certain other administrators.

If your answer is no, then your resume will remain offline, where only you can see it. That allows you to complete your resume or update it over more than one session. You can also return your resume to offline from online if you wish to make changes from time to time after your original posting. For example, your certification may change from pending to completed.

Remember, you cannot apply for jobs until your resume is online. Principals cannot view resumes that are offline. Be sure everything is up-to-date before you make new job applications.

There are two ways to see if your resume is online or offline. You may go to the Review page, either by going through the application or by clicking on the Review tab. At the very bottom you are asked if your resume is ready to be searched by Peel District School Board Administration. If you answered yes, then your resume is online. If you answered no, then it is offline.

You can also look at the top of every page of your resume where you will see a field that reads either online or offline. You may click on that field and switch your resume back and forth. You can make changes while you are offline, and then after saving the changes and reviewing to ensure that they were made correctly, you can switch back to online.

You can always make the switch from the top of the pages or from the bottom of the Review page. Remember, you cannot apply for jobs until your resume is online. Principals cannot view resumes that are offline. Be sure everything is up-to-date before you make new job applications.

You should put your resume online as soon as you are satisfied that you have provided all necessary information and it is ready to be viewed by principals. You can easily take your resume offline to update information and then repost it online. Remember, you cannot apply for jobs until your resume is online. Principals cannot view resumes that are offline.

No. The VIP application allows you to draft and polish your resume within the Web forms, while working offline. As soon as you are satisfied with your resume and cover letter, you can post them online so that they are available to school principals. You can however, use the cut and paste features where appropriate to eliminate the need to retype parts of a traditional paper resume.

The easiest way to make sure that you have correctly entered all information is to review your entries on the Review page. You can do this by clicking through the whole application until you reach this page, or simply clicking on the Review page tab.

You must always save your information before moving to another page. When you first enter your resume, you always click save or save and next as you move through the pages. However, you must remember to do the same when you make changes to information that you have already entered.

Yes. Think of your offline resume as a draft or revision. When a resume is online, it is available for principals to view. You only want an up-to-date version of your resume to be viewed.

Make sure you click save and next even if not going to every page.
Go to the Review page of the resume. Find the information that you wish to update. Clicking the update button next to the information will take you to the page where that information appears. By clicking save or save and next after you make your change, the information will be updated. You can verify the correction by going back to the Review page.

Technically, you can update your resume at any time by first changing its status to offline. Practically, however, you should update your resume before applying for jobs, before closing dates for job applications, and at other times when it is less likely that principals will be trying to view resumes. Remember, resumes can only be viewed online.

You can use the Additional Information page or make a reference to the information in your cover letter.

You can not attach documents to your online resume. However, you can make reference to the documents in your cover letter and offer to provide them if you are invited for an interview. When contacted for an interview by a principal a list of the items and information you will be required to provide during the interview process will be reviewed with you.

When you apply for a specific job, you will be able to personalize your cover letter for that specific job. VIP will save the modified cover letter and keep a record of it for you with your job application information. This feature will be available in early April.

During the peak hiring period in spring, jobs are posted on a daily basis. So, we encourage you to visit VIP often during that period, to make sure you don't miss jobs that might be of interest to you. After that, it is on an “as need” basis. All subscribers to VIP will be notified by email when the spring hiring process begins. Applicants will be able to determine when jobs are posted by sorting listings by date.

The closing date for a job application is stated on each posting. Because of the high number of job applicants, there may be only a short time to apply for jobs. That is why it is practical to have your resume ready and online before job postings appear.

When spring hiring begins, all subscribers will be notified by email. After that time, you will be able to sort job listings by date to learn what is new since you last checked. You will also be able to view your job applications list to see the jobs to which you’ve already applied.

Principals begin to look at resumes right after the closing date for each job. When you apply for a job posting, VIP will let you know when your resume has been viewed - go to your Job History.

You have to apply for each job that interests you. For each job they have posted, the principals receive a list of all job applicants, with links to their resumes and cover letters.

In general, principals will only look at the resumes of those who have expressed interest in their jobs. However, when unexpected events occur that require an immediate hire, principals will also be able to search all available subscribers for qualified candidates.

Each job posting has a link to a map showing where the school is located.

VIP will keep track of that information for you, by providing you with your personalized Job History list.

On your job applications list, you will see when your resume has been viewed. Of course, it's important to note that having your resume viewed also does not guarantee that you will be invited for an interview.

As with most jobs, you will be contacted only if the principal wishes to interview you. If you are selected for an interview, the school will likely contact you by phone. In most cases, interviews are set up shortly after the closing date for job applications. To know if a job has been filled, go to your Job History.

No. The VIP system ensures that you can only apply for a job once and it will show up on your job history list after you have successfully submitted your application.

You can list information about your other university degrees in the "Additional Information" page of your online resume, in the box labelled "Educational Background."

Generally transcripts and university degrees are used as part of the information required to place you on the appropriate salary grid or scale as outlined in the corresponding collective agreement.

For elementary teachers, placement on the salary grid requires a QECO 4 or 5 Statement of Evaluation.  In order to acquire the required documentation you will need to submit a number of documents to QECO directly. QECO has specific guidelines and policies with regard to the submission of transcripts and related documentation. For information about the QECO registration process visit them at www.qeco.on.ca

For secondary teachers, placement on the salary grid requires a rating statement from OSSTF. In order to acquire the required documentation you will need to submit a number of documents to OSSTF directly. OSSTF has specific guidelines and policies with regard to the submission of transcripts and related documentation. For information about the OSSTF registration process visit them at www.osstfd19.ca

When a job is filled, it will be reflected in your Job History list. .

To “unsubscribe” to VIP, please login and then go to “Unsubscribe.” The link is located on the My VIP home page.

Through the administrative system at the Peel board, principals receive a list of job applicants for each job they have posted. The list includes links to your online resume and the cover letter you personalized for that job.

Most principals look first at your qualifications to make sure you have what is required, and then at your experience.

While principals can only interview candidates who have certification with official qualifications for each job, the cover letter is your opportunity to highlight certain features that quickly show you are qualified and may distinguish you from other applicants. Hobbies, interests, diplomas/degrees and community work in areas other than those in which you are qualified to teach, may be valuable as additional resources.

The job posting may also list other skills and qualifications that are not required, but would be considered assets for the job. You can address these assets in your cover letter or in the Additional Info section of your resume.

Keep in mind that principals may receive several hundred applications for each job. The faster they can grasp your qualifications, the better. Be brief and to the point.