At the start of a new school year when the first Free Schools are opening and more schools are becoming Academies, the UK's leading teacher recruitment service is providing powerful free solutions for schools wanting to recruit in the face of increased competition for the best candidates.
Eteach UK is offering schools a Recruitment Healthcheck and their own Career Site and School Profile to help them leverage the power of the internet to recruit more effectively and cut costs.
Working with over 7,000 schools, Eteach consultants have found that although there are common issues faced by most schools in finding staff, each institution faces unique recruitment challenges. In response to this, the Eteach Recruitment Healthcheck has been developed to help schools look closely at their recruitment activities, understand their strengths and weaknesses and put a strategy in place. Using the free review, the Eteach team of recruitment specialists then give impartial advice on how to look better online, find the best possible staff, plan for future recruitment needs, and improve the overall candidate experience.
Eteach Chief Executive Paul Howells said: "It’s essential that schools put clarity around what really matters and where they should focus their attention and budget, and that’s what the Healthcheck helps them do. It also helps them become a more effective business, save time and money, and recruit the best possible staff."
As part of its drive to provide solutions to improve school recruitment, Eteach is providing every member school with its own free School Profile. This new feature creates a strong online presence, improves search engine optimisation and creates a better candidate experience. In addition, schools that use its annual licence also benefit from a Career Site, a framework which schools can populate themselves, with all the content relating to recruitment and careers in one location. This can include information about the school, vacancies, Talent Pools, videos, images and new media.
"Career Sites have the potential to promote teaching on a positive note and help keep teachers in the sector," Howells said. "A Career Site persuades jobseekers about the benefits of working for that particular school, rather than one elsewhere or leaving the profession altogether. It also gives schools access to 570,000 registered candidates through eteach.com ."
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14th September 2011
For more information contact Gail Goodwin, PR and Communications Manager, on 01276 674100 / ggoodwin@eteach.com or Katie Stayt, Assistant Marketing Manager, on 01276 674137 / kstayt@eteach.com.
Notes to editors
Eteach.com offers a powerful and cost effective solution to the recruitment problems facing schools. It provides a unique integrated recruitment service, helping schools employ staff in the primary, secondary, special needs and independent sectors, as well as further education.
The UK’s leading education recruitment portal currently has over 600,000 teacher members, giving employers access to an unrivalled pool of talent nationally and internationally. The service is free to teachers, who simply enter their CV and then have access to a live database of vacancies.
School, Group and Regional Talent Pools are an innovative concept which has been introduced by Eteach to simplify recruitment and further drive down costs for schools. Recruiters can set up a Talent Pool, a database of potential employees that attracts teachers who want to work in that region or school. When there’s a vacancy schools can access the list of candidates who have already expressed an interest in working in their area or directly for them. By utilising this management resource Eteach is confident schools will save money, time and jobs.