No matter where graduates look for a teaching job - be it London, Surrey, Essex or even further afield - it can be hard to find a role without any experience to put on a CV.

To remedy this and help pupils in deprived areas of Northern Ireland, a new scheme has been set up to give teaching graduates short-term employment and organisers believe the initiative is having a positive effect.

So far, almost 200 of the 270 two-year teaching posts have been filled and newly-qualified teachers are already helping to improve literacy and numeracy levels in the country.

Alison Smyth from the Western Board, which was given the task of matching graduates to schools, said the next step would be another recruitment campaign after the mid-term break.

"We have been interviewing the young teachers and it's great that we're in the position now to have so many of them employed," she told the BBC.

Both primary and secondary teaching jobs have been created by the scheme, with all post-primary, non-selective schools receiving at least one new teacher, while a selected group of primary schools also benefited from the scheme.

It has been funded by the Department of Education and is set to end in August 2015, but even though the teachers taking part in the scheme will not be guaranteed a job at their school when the money runs out, the idea has been praised by graduates. 

David Kearney, one of the newly-qualified teachers, said: "Unfortunately the nature of supply work is that it's not guaranteed and there were times you were waiting for a phone call.

"This is not a long-term fix but it's great to give young teachers a chance to develop their skills.

"It puts us in a better position to apply for permanent jobs in the future."

As someone looking for a teaching job in the south-east, do you think this is a good idea? Could it extend to other areas?