Switching Positions Within School/District (Community Liaison to School Counselor)

Hello,

Let me start off by saying if this is not in the correct place, please direct me to where I could post this. So I just graduated from Undergrad and I was fortunate enough to get a job in a school district at a middle school where I serve as a Community Liaison. I am taking this school year off from school (as a student) to not only save up and pay for undergrad loans but also to get experience working with school admin, secretaries, teachers, etc. I have already applied for grad school in Educational Counseling at my local state university, as I hope to one day be a School Counselor, hopefully in a High School. The department of counselor education at the grad school offers 'Internship Credentials' to all students that have been admitted to the program. So, if I am admitted into the grad program, I would be allowed to be a School Counselor if I were to get hired. I am currently at a middle school that is expanding from 6-8 grade, to K-8 grade. What this means is that they will be hiring counselors because the amount of students they will be working with will also increase. As I mentioned earlier, it is my first year working in the education/district, but I am trying my best to not only do my job but also create a professional relationship with school admin and specifically the two counselors so that they could write me a letter of recommendation in the future.

Having said that, I have two questions.

1) How likely/common is it for someone to switch positions within the school district that they are already in? I am going from a classified employee to a certificated employee, so that may complicate things.

2) How likely am I to get hired for the counseling job with my 'internship credential'? In previous cases, what difficulties have other teachers/school staff had when trying to get a paid-position/salary job with a 'internship' credential? That is, I will be working as a Counselor in the morning and then going to grad school to get my masters and credential to be a school counselor in the evenings.

Again, I know it's not specifically relevant to teachers, but it is to the education world and specifically to school counselors. Hopefully it does not get deleted as I feel r/education can have a lot of input on this.

Submitted October 29, 2016 at 06:41PM by rrodri10 http://ift.tt/2e9B6fO