Apply Instructions

Apply Instructions

This online application will require specific information about your credential status. If you are unsure of your credential, visit the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC) website for online verification.

NOTE: An emergency permit is not a credential.

  STEP ONE: APPLICATION/DOCUMENT PACKET

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Your complete document packet must be uploaded online or received by our office within three (3) weeks of e-application submittal in order for you to be considered for an interview. Incomplete document packets will be returned to sender.

Please have your document packet prepared before completing an e-application. A complete packet includes:

1. One Resume and Cover Letter
2. One letter of reference from current or most recent principal/supervisor*
   (on letterhead, signed & dated within one year)
   *If currently student teaching, submit a letter of reference from your master teacher.
3. Official transcripts of all college work completed with degree posted (photocopies acceptable)
4. Photocopy of CBEST passage or Verification of Basic Skills Requirement.
5. Student Teaching Evaluations (if student teaching occurred within the last three years)
6. Photocopy of valid credential* (Not applicable for Substitute applicants.) *including CTC document number and issue and expiration date

If currently student teaching, please submit the following as soon as they are available to you. These items will fully complete your application packet.

1. Photocopy of valid credential
2. Student Teaching Evaluations
   
   Please submit your document packet online or via U.S. mail.
   
   Human Resource Services
   Attention: Applicant Tracking
   1515 Hughes Way
   Long Beach, CA 90810
   
   NOTE: Materials received as part of the document packet cannot be returned or copied.                                                                                               

  STEP TWO: REVIEW

Our staffing professionals focus on fully credentialed teachers and applicants for high need areas such as Special Education and Science.

  STEP THREE: DISTRICT INTERVIEW

Selected applicants are interviewed at the district level for possible employment, on an as needed basis.

  STEP FOUR: BACKGROUND CHECK

During the application process, contacts are made to the applicant’s references and former employers.

  STEP FIVE: SITE INTERVIEW

Applicants who are recommended for candidate status are referred to schools for site interviews.

  STEP SIX: JOB OFFER

A Human Resource Services staffing professional contacts the successful candidate to make an employment offer. Sometimes these offers are made earlier in the process, without identifying the specific school site. Most often, offers are made after the background check process is completed and include the school site placement information.

NOTE: Principals and school staff are not authorized to offer employment. Only HRS offers employment.

Before an offer of employment can be made, all applicants who have prior convictions will be required to provide a certified copy of all relevant records including but not limited to: conviction reports, probation reports and court records. This applies to applicants and current Long Beach Unified School District employees who apply for a promotion or change in employment.

  STEP SEVEN: EMPLOYMENT PROCESSING

New Hire processing includes the completion of required New Hire documents. New Hires will pick up a packet of materials prior to their individual processing appointment (usually the same day that they are coming to the District Office for fingerprinting). The New Hire will complete the documents in the packet prior to their processing appointment.

All new hires must:

• Provide proof of a negative Mantoux Tuberculosis (TB) screening
• Have LBUSD fingerprint clearance from the California Department of Justice
• Be cleared by the District Physician who reviews the confidential medical questionnaire (included in the New Hire packet)
• Provide employment eligibility (I-9) documentation
• Provide copies of documents that establish Identity and Employment eligibility (such as a California driver's license and a social security card)
• Be credentially cleared to perform their assigned position

During New Hire processing, a Credential Services Specialist will review and collect the required documents. The Specialist will provide salary, benefit and other important information to the New Hire. The New Hire is not cleared to begin work until they are officially notified by Human Resources Services.

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