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In this research, it was aimed to determine the perspectives of unappointed science teachers about teacher employment problems and solutions. In the study, qualitative research method and phenomenology (phenomenology) design were used in order to make a deep sense of a social phenomenon. Purposive sampling was used to determine the study group. The study group consists of six unassigned science teachers. Two of the participants are unemployed, two teachers work outside of their field, and two teachers work as paid teachers in their field. A semi-structured interview form was used as a data collection tool in the research. The interviews were conducted online, and the interviews were recorded with the permission of the participants. Content analysis was used in data analysis. Science teachers stated that they could not be appointed because they got low scores from KPSS. The majority of the participants stated that they had paid teaching experience. Unappointed teachers who have to take care of their families and who have to an academic career do not complain about unemployment. Even with low status and pay, teachers are happy to do their own work. It has been concluded that, the science teachers who were not appointed were not satisfied with their positions, working conditions, working hours, wages and job security; experienced the most economic difficulties in this process; they found a solution to this difficulty by getting family support; they want to work as teachers in the public sector; they think that there are problems of status difference in teaching and mismatch in employment (qualification mismatch) together with employment in this area; there are opinions that the number of assignment quotas should be increased and the number of student quotas in the science teaching program should be reduced. Suggestions were made in line with the results obtained.

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