Online Recruitment of School Staff
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire has its own website:
This is an interactive site where all Hertfordshire schools can place their adverts free of charge and search for candidates who have registered their details on the site.
This website has proved to be an effective recruitment tool and is usually the first step in filling a vacancy for most Hertfordshire schools.
- Hertfordshire LA promotes the website on a regular basis through paper adverts in local and student based press and other forms of media.
- LA staff have a strong presence at many University Initial Teacher Training recruitment fairs (over 1500 names collected and uploaded on the website between October 2008 and February 2009). Contact is maintained with all potential teachers who have shown an interest in obtaining a post in Hertfordshire; their details are entered on the website.
- The website is effective in recruiting teachers to posts in Primary schools, many secondary and special school posts and support /administrative posts in all schools.
- As a dedicated Local Authority website, the cost is borne by the LA and the candidates who register are there to benefit the recruitment solely for Hertfordshire maintained schools.
- The LA generates a sizeable pool of potential Graduate Trainees, particularly for secondary shortage subjects.
Times Educational Supplement (TES)
The TES has now launched a full, national e-recruitment service for the education sector called TES HireWire. Schools are currently able to use it free of charge.
- The TES is the UK’s leading educational newspaper and job board.
- It has a profitable business in advertising educational vacancies and has a vested interest in capturing any educational recruitment and linking it to its newspaper and popular jobs board.
- Traditionally Hertfordshire school leadership posts, secondary teaching vacancies in shortage subjects and secondary subject leader posts have been advertised in the TES and on their jobs board.
- TES proposes that schools will have their own microsites to advertise their vacancies and track their online applicants
- Individual Hertfordshire schools may sign up for this free service
- TES have approached Hertfordshire with a view to working together to shape the Local Authority version of TES HireWire for the benefit of our schools and to meet our reporting requirements.
New Website from DCSF
DCSF (now DfE) , in conjunction with Tribal, launched a national e-recruitment service for schools, the Schools Recruitment Service, which went live on 21 September 2009. Schools have to pay an annual licence fee to use this service.
- The DCSF hopes to sign up all schools and direct applicants to a single national e-recruitment website.
- All new users must sign up for a minimum 12 month period and an annual licence fee must be paid in advance.
- At this time, the Local Authority does not propose to sign on behalf of Hertfordshire schools, so the DCSF will approach each individual school to sign up for the service.
- The cost of training (by Tribal) for schools signing up independently is £800/day.
In Hertfordshire we recognise that schools are autonomous organisations that rightly make their own decisions as to the most effective mechanisms to recruit their staff. We also know how important the recruitment of high quality staff is to school improvement. Therefore we will Ccontinue to maintain and enhance www.teachinherts.com. whilst monitoring these other websites.
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