The best recruiting identifies the types of candidates needed, creates desire by communicating those needs and then matches resources to opportunities. Identifying and communicating your needs is much simpler than you think. After all, that is why we have all those social media sites, jobs sites, your website and the Internet. The challenge of matching capability to circumstances, experience to support, objectives to, well, your objectives, can be solved efficiently with just a little planning and a lot of practice.

Safal Delivers Recruiting Strategy

Safal Partners will analyze your district’s or school’s recruiting process and improve marketing to candidates, technology support, and candidate screening and evaluation. Safal’s experience with some of the largest school districts in the country and with individual schools has provided a solid set of guidelines to reduce the workload of your recruiters so that they can focus on the most important parts of their jobs: Hiring top talent! Recruiting plans include:

• Creating value propositions: What will draw candidates from all over the country to your campus? Value Propositions should be defined based on the leadership style of the principal, the challenges of the school environments and the desire to change.
• Candidate profiles: This exercise helps leaders know the different scenarios that will work on a campus.
• Communicating and marketing: Online and conventional marketing to get the word out.
• Screening applicants: How can you spot the diamond in the rough?
• Evaluating applicants: Should your candidates provide a sample lesson plan? How well do structured interviews work? There is a tradeoff between a thorough evaluation process and the amount of time it takes to get candidates an offer. Many of the best applicants are lost because of the length of time it takes to get through the evaluation process and in a competitive market, those losses can add up to lost opportunity.
• Tracking applicant progress: The best candidates will always slip away if your organization isn’t able to provide timely feedback. Moreover, your staff will waste time calling on uninterested or unqualified applicants without a good tracking system.